Jon Stokes reveals the first installment of his new tutorial series on AI content generation. This technology is already changing the creative industry. Here’s how it works. A technology called deep learning is bringing what […]
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RIP Blockchain: Build on Tech That Built Blockchain
Blockchain has failed to deliver what it promised. So, what’s next? Anshu Sharma, co-founder & CEO of Skyflow, talks about the silver linings. fintech_devcon is a conference for fintech developers and builders designed to unlock […]
We’re Witnessing the Birth of a New Artistic Medium
Creative artificial intelligence is the latest and, in some ways, most surprising and exhilarating art form in the world. It also isn’t fully formed yet. That tension is causing some confusion. If you’re familiar at […]
There’s New Proof Crispr Can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies
The technique had largely been limited to editing patients’ cells in the lab. New research shows promise for treating diseases more directly. One of the challenges of turning test tube Crispr discoveries into cures for […]
An End to Doomerism
“The issue is that people mistake optimism for ‘blind optimism’ — the blinkered faith that things will always get better.” Pessimism around progress has seeped into almost every grain of society. But I see it […]
People Are Loving the World’s Biggest Four-Day Workweek Trial – and They’re Just as Productive
86% of survey respondents said they’ll likely want to stick with a 4 day work week after the trial ends. Three and a half months ago, the biggest four-day workweek trial in the world to […]
Sci-fi Author Neal Stephenson Wants to Build a Metaverse Open to All
The science-fiction author who coined the term metaverse in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash” is going head-to-head with Meta and Microsoft to create an open-source platform for creating virtual worlds. Many developers are still working […]
The Future of Financial Services
How does the financial services industry move beyond just the buzzword of “digital transformation” and translate this into real business outcomes? fintech_devcon is a conference for fintech developers and builders designed to unlock knowledge and […]
Building Momentum for Global AI-Driven Longevity Transformation
AI is a key technological enabler of aging research and the only hope to move the longevity progress fast enough for the existing generation to live longer than nature currently permits. Helping people live healthier […]
Reality: A Post-Mortem
An essay series by Jon Askonas, politics professor at the Catholic University of America, on what killed consensus reality — and what’s coming next. The breakup of consensus reality — a shared sense of facts, […]
Metaverse Deep Dive – Decoding the Buzzword
The high level of interest and curiosity by users and corporations is rising – no doubt, but let us create some understanding of what exactly the metaverse is. As Dr.Martha Boeckenfeld mentions, if you put […]
The Pathologies of the Attention Economy
L. M. Sacasas considers what we should take into consideration whenever we talk about the “problem of attention” and when we try to do something about it. I’ve learned in listening to others tell their […]
Why Your Life Could Be Part of Someone Else’s Game
Are you being played? That’s the question the author Adrian Hon poses in a new book about the “gamification” of modern life. Game-like incentives and rewards permeate our world. Is the world controlled by a […]
Fintech App Portabl Raises $2.5M to Help Consumers Securely Store Financial Data
Fintech Portabl announced the closing of a $2.5 million seed round recently led by Harlem Capital Partners. Portabl, founded by Nate Soffio and Alex Yenkalov, also launches its beta today for institutional use. It provides […]
Hilton hotels Will Design Astronaut Suites on Private Starlab Space Station
Hilton wants to ‘reimagine the human experience in space, making extended stays more comfortable.’ Hilton is ready to take its hospitality off-planet. The hotel giant will move into a future Earth-orbiting space station called Starlab […]
3 Steps to Build ‘Adaptive’ Smart Cities of the Future
Cities represent perhaps the most important opportunity for innovation and digital transformation for our entire society and the planet. While the concept of the smart city has long been the future vision for cities, even […]
How Game Design Principles Can Enhance Democracy
“Gamification doesn’t just give us the digital scaffolding to fulfill the promise of democracy. It can help us build ties and trust in one another.” Many choose to gamify parts of their lives to make […]
Algorithms and the Future of Work
To achieve the benefits that algorithm-enabled systems and devices promise in the future of work, we must study how to effectively manage their risks. In the future of work, algorithms will provide many beneficial applications […]
VR as Good as Psychedelics at Helping People Reach Transcendence
On key metrics, a VR experience elicited a response indistinguishable from subjects who took medium doses of LSD or magic mushrooms. Fifteen years ago, David Glowacki was walking in the mountains when he took a […]
Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech
Marion Labouré shares 5 key insights from her new book with co-author Nicholas Deffrennes, “Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech”. Financial technology, or Fintech, is a global equalizer that can reduce inequalities between countries […]
Magic Leap’s Origin Story
Voices of VR sits down with Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz for two hours to unpack some of the many threads Magic Leap’s behind origin story. The journey to augmented reality. It really did not […]
Will the World Ever Be Ready For a Linear Metropolis?
Saudi Arabia has unveiled designs for a futuristic megastructure in the desert. But it is an idea that has preoccupied the imaginations of architects – and megalomaniacs – for generations. The army of consultants commissioned […]
Think Like A Brand & The Metaverse is a Branding Statement
Jason Henrichs and Jim Marous interview Allison Netzer and Liz High about their book “Think Like A Brand Not A Bank”. Maybe you don’t necessarily put the customer first. Great brands get great returns every […]
Why are Hard Drive Companies Investing in DNA Data Storage?
The research community is excited about the potential of DNA to function as long-term archival storage. That’s largely because it’s extremely dense, chemically stable for tens of thousands of years, and comes in a format […]
Matthew Ball’s “The Metaverse” Book is the Most Comprehensive Description of the Metaverse Stack
Ball tells the broader story of the Metaverse, helping bring a more grounded definition of the Metaverse reflecting what’s already happening in gaming and where it’s likely to go in the future. Matthew Ball’s “The […]
Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms
Platform cooperatives are a strategy of political and organizational might, uniting workers in a concrete way to own the conditions of their work and to redirect technology to the benefit of average workers, not global […]
A Primer on Presence, Immersive Storytelling, & Experiential Design
Voices of VR Podcast host Kent Bye traces the evolution of storytelling through the lens of how virtual and augmented reality provides a direct, embodied experience and environmental context that is difficult to achieve in […]
Empirically Grounded Technology Forecasts and the Energy Transition
Compared to continuing with a fossil fuel-based system, a rapid green energy transition will likely result in overall net savings of many trillions of dollars—even without accounting for climate damages or co-benefits of climate policy. […]
Historic Day for Crypto as Ethereum Merge to Proof-of-Stake Occurs
The Ethereum Merge has officially taken place, marking the full transition of the network to proof-of-stake (PoS). On Sept. 15 at 06:42:42 UTC at block 15,537,393, the long-awaited Merge saw the merging of the Ethereum […]
Microchips in Humans: Consumer-Friendly App, or New Frontier in Surveillance?
Like any technology, there is always a dark side — especially with a newer technology that is so invasive that it literally gets under our skin. n 2021, a British/Polish firm known as Walletmor announced […]