Interesting whether content brands will mean anything at all in the ‘worldstream’. Already, we can see their relevance eroded in aggregated streams such as the Facebook newsfeed.

“We cannot predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net” (…) “In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.”

Within two or three decades the difference between automated driving and human driving will be so great you may not be legally allowed to drive your own car, and even if you are allowed, it would be immoral of you to drive, because the risk of you hurting yourself or another person will be far greater than if you allowed a machine to do the work. That moment will be significant not just because it will signal the end of one more human niche, but because it will signal the beginning of another: the era in which it will no longer be optional for machines to have ethical systems.

Google is one company that gets a lot of flak every time it fails (or is perceived to have failed). Comes with the territory, I suppose. Too often though the critics treat it as if it were a classic corporation. But it is the constant pursuit to reinvent itself that makes Google not an ordinary company. For that reason I feel that most criticism levelled at it, though it could have been valid if directed at regular organisations, is not justified.

If five million people can be convinced to log into Zynga’s Facebook game Farmville each day to water a virtual garden and literally watch the grass grow on their computer screens, surely, Ed believes, there must be a way to co-opt those same neural circuits that reward mindless gaming to make learning more addictive and enjoyable. That’s the great ambition of Memrise, and it points towards a future where we’re constantly learning in tiny chunks of our downtime.

A 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted to an 83-year-old woman’s face http://bbc.in/OazTnE  (the future? No, the now) #himc

Wondering if they’re planning to add street view anytime soon.