We are at a crucial crossroad for humanity. What can we do now to shape it towards AI enhanced future?
Category: Creative Destruction
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Nov 14 2024
The Rise of Agentic AI: Transforming Daily Life by 2025
I was looking at the amazing computational advances of Nvidia’s new A200 chips, which will enable “agentic AI”. Agentic AI is where you can assign an AI assistant to independently take on an assigned task which could involve multiple steps and “modalities” i.e. text/visual/video/audio, access the internet live, check it results and report back – …
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Feb 09 2019
Technology Friend or Foe?
it is good to seek out,and learn from thought leaders who are in touch with the tremendous impacts that technological advances may have on our lives and our world
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May 22 2014
The End of Retirement as We Know It – Executive Summary
Essentially in every crucial area that retirement planning makes assumptions, dramatic changes are coming. I believe that how we think about and plan our retirement is about to be completely undone.
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May 04 2014
Fireside Chat with Zoltan Istvan – Author of “The Transhumanist Wager”
“It’s the idea that if everyone would just, in a one-time event, dedicate one percent of their net worth to life-extension science, that would be something like a trillion dollars- we would almost certainly be able to, in say ten to fifteen years’ time, conquer most diseases and probably eliminate human death itself.” Zoltan Istvan
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Apr 29 2014
Your Retirement Is About Your Future – So Shouldn’t Retirement Advisors Be Listening to Futurists?
It is time for financial planners to incorporate the insights of futurists. They need to do their best to help their clients consider life scenarios that take into account possible future outcomes. They need to become Retirement Futurists!
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Nov 17 2013
Why The Increasing Pace of Innovation and Disruption Matters To Your Life and Retirement
Impacts to your income, your assets, your pension safety, your longevity are just a few reasons that the exponential advances in technology need to be part of your thinking and planning.
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Oct 06 2013
The Future And You – Interviews Michael Nuschke of Retirement Singularity
Recently, Stephen Euin Cobb, of the podcast series “The Future and You”, interviewed me on all things “Retirement Singularity”. We got into healthy life extension, technological disruption, life coaching and the impacts to personal finances.
In particular we discussed most of the themes inside the “End of Retirement As We Know It” report.
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Sep 22 2013
Ageless Generation: Interview with Alex Zhavoronkov
A new book entitled “Ageless Generation: How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy” proposes at breakthrough solution to the approaching economic crisis. Namely, advance anti-aging and regenerative medicine and charge the cultural significance of “retirement”.
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Jul 30 2013
Is Your Retirement Nest-Egg Big Enough? Or Is “Growing a Nest-Egg” The Wrong Idea?
Saving a retirement “nest-egg” may be the wrong goal for retirement. Expanding healthy life spans require we “reframe” the notion of retirement.
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- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 21) December 21, 2024ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills Will Knight | Wired “The o3 model scores much higher on several measures than its predecessor, OpenAI says, including ones that measure complex coding-related skills and advanced math and science competency. It is three times better than o1 at answering questions posed by […]Singularity Hub Staff
- Textbook Depictions of Neurons May Be Wrong, According to Controversial Study December 20, 2024In the late 1800s, Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal drew hundreds of images of neurons. His exquisite work influenced our understanding of what they look like: Cells with a bulbous center, a forest of tree-like branches on one end, and a long, smooth tail on the other. Centuries later, these images remain textbook. But […]Shelly Fan
- Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons December 19, 2024Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to form connections could be the future. While companies like Neuralink have recently provided some flashy demos of what could be achieved by hooking brains up to computers, the technology still has […]Edd Gent
- How to Be Healthy at 100: Centenarian Stem Cells Could Hold the Key December 18, 2024When Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122, her longevity had researchers scratching their heads. Although physically active for most of her life, she was also a regular smoker and enjoyed wine—lifestyle choices that are generally thought to decrease healthy lifespan. Teasing apart the intricacies of human longevity is complicated. Diet, exercise, and other […]Shelly Fan
- The Tech World Is ‘Disrupting’ Book Publishing. But Do We Want Effortless Art? December 17, 2024Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence. New platforms and approaches, like a book imprint by Microsoft and a self-publishing tech startup that uses AI, promise to make publishing faster and more accessible than ever. But they also may threaten jobs—and demand a reconsideration of the status […]Julian Novitz
- Study Suggests an mRNA Shot Could Reverse This Deadly Pregnancy Condition December 16, 2024With a single shot, scientists protected pregnant mice from a deadly complication called pre-eclampsia. The shot, inspired by mRNA vaccines, contains mRNA instructions to make a protein that reverses damage to the placenta—which occurs in the condition—protecting both mother and growing fetus. Pre-eclampsia causes 75,000 maternal deaths and 500,000 fetal and newborn deaths every year […]Shelly Fan
- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 14) December 14, 2024ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google’s New Project Astra Could Be Generative AI’s Killer App Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review “Last week I was taken through an unmarked door on an upper floor of a building in London’s King’s Cross district into a room with strong secret-project vibes. The word ‘ASTRA’ was emblazoned in giant letters […]Singularity Hub Staff
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- How Cellular Reprogramming Affects Mitochondrial Dysfunction December 19, 2024Creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) causes mutant mitochondrial populations to change, and researchers have investigated this phenomenon more thoroughly. Easy to mutate Being outside of the protection […]Josh Conway
- BioAge Labs Announces Multi-Year Collaboration with Novartis December 18, 2024BioAge Labs, Inc. (“BioAge”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic product candidates for metabolic diseases by targeting the biology of human aging, today announced a multi-year research collaboration with Novartis. The […]Press release
- Lower Rates of Epigenetic Aging in Olympic Champions December 18, 2024A recent investigation into Hungarian Olympic champions suggests slower epigenetic aging and differences in gene methylation patterns between champions and non-champions [1]. Exercising your way to longevity Exercise seems to be the best lifestyle factor […]Anna Drangowska-Way
- A Senolytic Approach to Faster Wound Healing December 17, 2024Researchers have published in Aging their findings that a senolytic compound accelerates wound healing in aged mice when it is administered before the wound occurs. A well-known laboratory senolytic While some senescent […]Josh Conway
- Encouraging Hair Growth by Reducing Senescence December 16, 2024In Aging Cell, researchers have described how to improve the hair growth potential of stem cells and organoids by reducing […]Josh Conway
- Why Research Teams Should Email XPRIZE Healthspan Now December 13, 2024With the deadline for submissions just around the corner, Jamie Justice, Executive Director of XPRIZE HealthSpan, explains to researchers still on the fence why they should contact her team now but also why […]Arkadi Mazin
- LongGame Venture Capital Fund Officially Launched December 12, 2024Crypto investor and founder Will Harborne will lead a new enterprise aimed at funding and supporting groundbreaking longevity technologies. From crypto to longevity The burgeoning field of longevity biotech is about […]Arkadi Mazin