I recently went through the process of renewing my driving license, which made me think of two important components of our future infrastructure. One, the oracle problem: how to connect external data sources to the consensus mechanisms that blockchains offer. Second, whether this would be the last time that I needed to renew my license […]
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Self driving cars have been part of our imagination and technological aspirations for a long time. Now that they are here, the question is not if their features are ready for us, but if we are ready for them. This is not a dream anymore, and it is urgent that we not only think about
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Cars on the Tesla Network will generate $20K per year for ten years according to Elon Musk. Once Full Self Driving is available, it won’t make sense selling them to you. Also, what if the real Tesla products are not cars, or systems for solar energy generation and storage, but the Gigafactories themselves? Welcome to
The trend is clearly visible: sensors, and actuators, together with computation, memory and communication capabilities, are making all the objects around us smarter and smarter. Too many times, wether we call them robots, or AIs, the trend is depicted in menacing tones, represented in the dystopian futures preferred by Hollywood movies, and shape the gut reactions
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Google’s robotic cars learn from each other when they are back in the garage, and train in simulated worlds at an accelerated pace. Our future will be inhabited by smart machines using their time much differently than we do. Robotic cars may pose many challenges, but if they deliver even a fraction of what they
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photo: Global Reaction Technology will thrive once we humans don’t slow it down. Not only literally in speed, but in phase-space hobbling its capacity to explore a much vaster range of solutions than the ones found when our needs are taken into consideration. Even the technology that is apparently human centric, like transportation, can evolve
Robotic cars: let’s get out of their way Read More »
We were in my car with Joi Ito tonight driving to have a few drinks after his panel at IBTS (yes, that was the name of the conference even if he didn’t seem to know :-), and he remarked how amusing it was to find Italy as he expected: creative, flexible, and pretty anarchic in
Charming side of Italian anarchy as seen from the outside Read More »
