{"id":520,"date":"2012-10-24T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2012-10-24T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:18:00","slug":"world-technology-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"World Technology &#8220;Summit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got a invitation to go for free to the World Technology &#8220;Summit&#8221;,<br \/>\nheld the past couple days. \u00a0I went on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be a sham. \u00a0The organizer is a Kurzweilite who can&#8217;t<br \/>\ndistinguish between engineers making real innovations and<br \/>\nfuturism-peddlers. \u00a0Most invitees seemed to have realized this and<br \/>\nstayed home, which is why the room was so sparse except for us<br \/>\nColumbia grad students.<\/p>\n<p>Some choice quotes from the organizer&#8217;s introduction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;[Quantum computing is so powerful, it&#8217;s] like today&#8217;s computers<br \/>\nare ants, and quantum computers are gods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<li>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to be Earth-independent.&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;What scientists call our &#8216;meat bodies&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;We may not realize it yet, but this is it. \u00a0This is all simulated.<br \/>\n\u00a0We live in the Matrix.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>He also implied that the demise of religion is inevitable and spent a<br \/>\nlot of time on transhumanism.<\/p>\n<p>The only interesting part of the &#8220;summit&#8221; that I saw was a panel by<br \/>\nthree media researchers on the future of media. \u00a0Three take-aways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Companies have realized that people now watch two screens at once<br \/>\n(e.g., there were 170k tweets per minute during the debate), and are<br \/>\ntrying to bait them with one screen and monetize on another.<\/p>\n<li>The internet giants should not be considered &#8220;firms&#8221;. \u00a0A firm<br \/>\nassumes it&#8217;s cheaper to do things inside than out; a network assumes<br \/>\nit&#8217;s cheaper to do things outside, and tries to build forums for<br \/>\nothers to do them.<\/p>\n<li>The next mobile revolution will have your cell provide information<br \/>\nto your surroundings (e.g., the store), rather than the other way<br \/>\naround.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a invitation to go for free to the World Technology &#8220;Summit&#8221;, held the past couple days. \u00a0I went on Monday. It appears to be a sham. \u00a0The organizer is a Kurzweilite who can&#8217;t distinguish between engineers making real innovations and futurism-peddlers. \u00a0Most invitees seemed to have realized this and stayed home, which is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Technology &#8220;Summit&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}