Editorial Perspectives

Imagination is a Key Difference Between the Neural Network in Your Head and in a Machine

Imagination is a Key Difference Between the Neural Network in Your Head and in a Machine

The differences between machine neural nets and the operation of the human brain could be better understood with the use…
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Job Applications and Algorithmic Barriers to Your History

Job Applications and Algorithmic Barriers to Your History

Algorithms now play a major role in connecting job applicants and prospective employers. Job seekers are increasingly required to adapt…
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Preparing to Launch Humanity into a New Technological Era

Preparing to Launch Humanity into a New Technological Era

We look at two organizations dedicated to introducing quantum computing to future users, and in the process allow humans to…
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The Extraordinary Contributions of Citizen Scientists to Scientific Creativity

The Extraordinary Contributions of Citizen Scientists to Scientific Creativity

Citizen scientists without formal academic training, like Daniel Larsen, Pierre de Fermat, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, have made extraordinary contributions to…
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Human Pride and The Power to Suspend the Norms

Human Pride and The Power to Suspend the Norms

The image says it all: in the unexpected creative turns that humans take in festivals of happiness like Toronto Pride…
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The Incredible Difficulty of Replicating the Human Power of Common Sense in a Machine

The Incredible Difficulty of Replicating the Human Power of Common Sense in a Machine

Largely overlooked in machine learning based on big data, humans use the power of common sense to manage unpredictable situations….
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The Power We Have Given Our Machines to Judge Who Among Us is Human

The Power We Have Given Our Machines to Judge Who Among Us is Human

We have given our machines an interesting power, to determine who among us is human before we can access the…
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The Human Power of Observation and Threat of Technological Dependence

The Human Power of Observation and Threat of Technological Dependence

The film classic 2001: A Space Odyssey challenges us to consider the potential for technological failure as our technological dependence…
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A Technological Proposal for Trust and Transparency in Environmental Standard-Setting and Monitoring

A Technological Proposal for Trust and Transparency in Environmental Standard-Setting and Monitoring

Criticized for trustworthiness and lack of transparency, climate standard-setter and monitor SBTi aims to help business remain within the agreed…
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Financing Climate Change and Abolishing the Obsolete Zero-Cost Assumption for Natural Resources

Financing Climate Change and Abolishing the Obsolete Zero-Cost Assumption for Natural Resources

A full accounting for the cost of depleting Nature’s resources and remediating environmental damage could lead to more sustainable investment…
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Let’s Create a Natural Futures Market and Trade on the Value that Sustains Us

Let’s Create a Natural Futures Market and Trade on the Value that Sustains Us

We call for the establishment of a Natural Futures Market, trading in the environmental value of securities already exchanged in…
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Can We Ever Stop Technological Threats From Multiplying?

Can We Ever Stop Technological Threats From Multiplying?

We are confronted daily by increasingly sophisticated attempts powered by technology to breach our privacy and security. While AI regulations…
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How Data Brokers Profit from the Data We Create

How Data Brokers Profit from the Data We Create

Data brokering is estimated to generate more than $200 billion of annual revenue, none of which goes to the creators…
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Four Questions for OpenAI’s Mission to Benefit All of Humanity

Four Questions for OpenAI’s Mission to Benefit All of Humanity

OpenAI’s release of the popular and powerful GPT-3 and GPT-4 technology has sparked global discussion about its benefits and risks….
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Trading in Belief and Government Debts That Will Never Be Repaid

Trading in Belief and Government Debts That Will Never Be Repaid

With no foreseeable way to raise $31 trillion in cash to repay the U.S. national debt, the future depends on…
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The Capitalist’s Incomplete Account of Time

The Capitalist’s Incomplete Account of Time

Our capitalist system records no value for a customer’s time. How would transactions turn out if there was an accounting…
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Inflation and the electric future

Inflation and the electric future

As electric vehicles rapidly become future reality, is there a better way to measure inflation and future interest rates without…
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David Bohm: A Quantum of Truth 

David Bohm: A Quantum of Truth 

Bohm was a proponent of the “pilot wave” interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Bohm was a proponent of the “pilot wave” interpretation of quantum mechanics. There is much about the operation of the…
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The Value of Belief: Connection Between Time and Value

The Value of Belief: Connection Between Time and Value

What is the connection between “time” and “value”?  Consider this: that there is no intrinsic value in money.  The only…
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A Thinking Machine: Has Google’s AI Become Sentient?

A Thinking Machine: Has Google’s AI Become Sentient?

How far-fetched is the claim that Google’s artificial intelligence now possesses real intelligence, a consciousness? What would we do, if it…
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