分类目录归档：technology
For more than 100 years,
the telephone companies have provided wiretapping assistance to governments.
For much of this time, this assistance was manual.
Surveillance took place manually and wires were
Two twin domes,
two radically opposed design cultures.
One is made of thousands of steel parts,
the other of a single silk thread.
One is synthetic, the other organic.
One is imposed on the environmen
So whenever I visit a school and talk to students,
I always ask them the same thing:
Why do you Google?
Why is Google the search engine of choice for you?
Strangely enough, I always get the same three
Imagine you are a part of a crew of astronauts
traveling to Mars or some distant planet.
The travel time could take a year
or even longer.
The space on board and the resources
would be limited.
So you
I once had this nightmare:
I'm standing in the middle of a deserted field full of land mines.
In real life, I love to hike,
but every time I want to go on a hike, it makes me nervous.
I have this thou
Translator: Leslie Gauthier Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz
Let's imagine a sculptor building a statue,
just chipping away with his chisel.
Michelangelo had this elegant way of describing it when he sai
So when people voice fears of artificial intelligence,
very often, they invoke images of humanoid robots run amok.
You know? Terminator?
You know, that might be something to consider,
but that's a dis
Chris Anderson: Help us understand what machine learning is,
because that seems to be the key driver
of so much of the excitement and also of the concern
around artificial intelligence.
How does machi
Future tech always comes with two things: promise
and unintended consequences.
And it's those consequences that I want to explore.
And before we get to how future tech may affect us,
I'd like to spend
My relationship with the internet reminds me of the setup
to a clichéd horror movie.
You know, the blissfully happy family moves in to their perfect new home,
excited about their perfect future,
and i