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Here are the 14 technologies: 6G, brain computer interfacing (BCI), emotional artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, immortality, bionic humans, eVTOL (electrical vertical takeoff and landing vehicles), wireless electricity, holograms, metaverse, next-gen batteries, oceantech (ocean energy, precision fishing, etc.), green mining and CCS (negative-emissions technology that captures and stores carbon dioxide before it can be released). This table gives a rundown:
Emotional AI and Other ‘Moonshot’ Technologies Could Grow to $6 Trillion Market by 2030, Says Bank of America
Barbara Kollmeyer
As you slip embarrassingly towards the ground, you notice the floor for the first time, the colour, the pattern, the material composition – even though it was supporting you the whole while you were on your food shop mission. Being present is secondary to just sort of happening, which means, argues Heidegger, that being isn’t present, which is why he calls his philosophy deconstruction or destructuring. What he is destructuring is the metaphysics of presence, which is saying that some things are more real than others, and the way they are more real is that they are more constantly present.
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?
Ways of Being
James Bridle
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