Technology

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Trends that are affecting The World. See also Science.

Could be summarized as follows: What happens if all of our technology can be made faster, smaller, cheaper, more omnipresent, and more connected?

Moore's Law and Quantum Computing

Shifts assumptions around cryptography and security.

3D Printing

Broadband

Outernet — Distributed network via radio signals

Big Data

Health. See biohacking below.

Machine Learning

Self-driving cars. Impact on truck industry.

Watson

Biohacking

Quantified self.

Genome editing via CRISPR.

Microbiome hacking

Mobile

Drones.

Displays

Electronic paper.

Haptic displays and touchscreens.

Virtual reality.

Networks

Cloud.

Blockchain

Privacy. Surveillance society. Differential privacy.

Open systems: Bullying, trolling, harassment.

(Mis)information dissemination. Silos.

Distributed authoring: git, Smallest Federated Wiki

Philosophy

Martin Heidegger

Jacques Ellul