"What's happening is if you have a great idea and the technical skills to implement it you can create disproportionate wealth very quickly," he said. "That's good by itself except it increases disparity." That disparity, Khosla said, will only continue to grow as machine learning and big data technologies improves. Eventually, software will have the ability to replace everything from farmworkers picking lettuce to law clerks.
The tech protests get personal — and ugly
Breaking the rules of a civil society: Activists target a Google engineer at his Berkeley home
Illusoire émancipation par la technologie
Depuis peu, des machines électroniques capables de produire des objets, fonctionnant à la manière d’imprimantes en trois dimensions, sont accessibles au grand public. Elles suscitent un engouement au sein d’une avant-garde qui y voit les ferments d’une nouvelle révolution industrielle. Mais les partisans de ces outils de bricolage technologique oublient souvent l’histoire qui les a vus naître.
Les drones – une nouvelle technologie controversée
Les drones – une nouvelle technologie controversée
RT @Liberationtech: US NSA “Owns” Debian, @Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Says &
RT @Liberationtech: US NSA "Owns" Debian, @Wikileaks' Julian Assange Says &
RT @BanKillerRobots: Every technology invented was supposed to put an end to war, but rather it done opposite by providing new opportunitie…
RT @BanKillerRobots: Every technology invented was supposed to put an end to war, but rather it done opposite by providing new opportunitie…
RT @BanKillerRobots: We’re not anti-technology or We are against giving machines the ability to target + kill human
RT @BanKillerRobots: We're not anti-technology or We are against giving machines the ability to target + kill human
Professor Martin Rees: Our Final Century? The risks posed by emerging 21st century technologies
Professor Martin Rees: Our Final Century? The risks posed by emerging 21st century technologies
Are Google building a TERMINATOR? Choc Factory buys AI firm DeepMind Technologies
Are Google building a TERMINATOR? Choc Factory buys AI firm DeepMind Technologies
People “will start becoming technology” says human cyborg
People "will start becoming technology" says human cyborg