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Ricardo Lopes
#131 Nikola Danaylov: The Singularity, Doing Futurism, and the Human Element
53 minutes Posted Aug 10, 2019 at 6:00 pm.
What is the Singularity?
Exponential growth
What would mean to have reached the Singularity?            
The trouble with futurism         
The technological and the human aspects      
What we get from technology depends on how we use it   
Transhumanism, enhancement, and ethics  
AI and economics
Eliminating boring tasks, and living more meaningful lives
Big Data, and the risk of exploitation 
The example of self-driving cars
The human element in the equation
Follow Mr. Danaylov’s work!  
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Mr. Nikola Danaylov is a #1 Bestselling Author of Conversations with the Future, a Keynote Speaker, Futurist, Strategic Adviser, popular Blogger and Podcast host, also known as Socrates in the Singularity community. In 1998, he moved to Canada where he completed an HBA in Political Science, Philosophy & Economics at the University of Toronto followed by an MA in Political Science at York University. It was at YorkU that Mr. Danaylov became deeply interested in the Technological Singularity and wrote "Hacking Destiny: Critical Security at the Intersection of Human and Machine Intelligence." In 2011, he went to NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California and completed the Graduate Studies Program at Singularity University. He has spoken at public events on topics ranging from technology, transhumanism and the technological singularity to new media, blogging, and podcasting. He has been profiled in Next Stage Rising Stars Magazine and has been interviewed himself for numerous documentary films, blogs, podcasts, magazines, and newspapers.
In this episode, we talk about what is meant by the term “Singularity”, and its technological, social, economic, and scientific implications. We consider the technological and human aspects of the equation of economic and technologic growth, and human and moral progress. We also deal with more specific issues, like transhumanism, the ethics of enhancement, AI, and Big Data.
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