Technology Adoption
The rate of technology adoption changes based on individual preferences and social norms. Accelerating and jolting technologies force an increasing…
Writing & Ideas
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Quantum Computing
Quantum computers have been under development for decades. Are they about to start delivering on their promise? Jolting technologies, where…
Spectrum of Abilities
We have many skills, many senses, many ways of coping with the world, absorbing the information, changing it, structuring it,…
Thinking with X
We are convinced, through the collective narrative leveraging our scientific understanding, that we think with our brains. While that is…
Jolting Technologies
There is a paradigm shift moving from accelerating technological change to jolting technological change. What is a jolt? The jolt…
Geoengineering
We’ve been doing geoengineering, transforming our environment, since the beginning of human civilization. In the past many effects appeared only…
Programmable infrastructure
As we develop smart infrastructures for our societies, it will be necessary and natural to make them programmable. The programmability…
Young Disruption
What is the right age to introduce children to the disruptions hitting our society? Shouldn’t we, rather than talking to…
Memetic Ambitions
Memetics is the study of evolution of culture and ideas, in all their expressions. Science, technology, philosophy, all evolve, and…