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.

Broadband

Outernet — Distributed network via radio signals

Big Data

Health. See biohacking below.

• Spire
• BiAffect — monitoring bipolar episodes via keyboard activity
• Microbiome hacking

Machine Learning

Self-driving cars. Impact on truck industry.

Watson

Biohacking

Quantified self.

Genome editing via CRISPR.

Microbiome hacking

Human augmentation

• Bruce Sterling. Sgt. Augmento. Motherboard. August 17, 2016. Science fiction about eye hacking.
• Prosthetics

Mobile

Drones.

Displays

Electronic paper.

Haptic displays and touchscreens.

Virtual reality.

Networks

Cloud.

Blockchain. Cryptocurrency.

Privacy. Surveillance society. Differential privacy.

Open systems: Bullying, trolling, harassment.

(Mis)information dissemination. Silos.

Distributed authoring: git, Smallest Federated Wiki

Liquid democracy

Philosophy

Martin Heidegger

Jacques Ellul