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Dec 28, 2015

A new Club of Rome study on the Circular Economy and Benefits for Society | Club of Rome

Posted by in categories: economics, governance

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“[R]igorous scientific new arguments for a swift move to a circular economy – an industrial system that is restorative by intention and design. Rather than discarding products before their value is fully utilized, we should design and produce them for continuous re-use.”

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Dec 24, 2015

How Universal Basic Income will Transform Human Experience

Posted by in category: economics

On Ideapod: https://www.ideapod.com/idea/How-Universal-Basic-Income-will…24128040f8
On Change.is: http://change.is/video/how-universal-basic-income-will-trans…experience

Source: Jason Silva — IBM Insight 2015 — theCUBE — #ibminsight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VgfcfQv_TE

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Dec 20, 2015

Ben Goertzel: Transitioning to a Post-Employment, Post-Scarcity, Post-Money Economy

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI

Full Title:
Transitioning to a Post-Employment, Post-Scarcity, Post-Money Economy in Which Collective Human and Machine Meaning Making Reigns.

Speaker:
Ben Goertzel, AGI Society, OpenCog Foundation.

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Dec 19, 2015

Why Basic Income?

Posted by in categories: economics, employment, robotics/AI

Basic Income (10 Reasons)
https://goo.gl/PJ7bbh

Lies You’ve Been Told about Work.
https://goo.gl/3u7Vld

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Dec 18, 2015

China wants to begin manned deep space missions

Posted by in categories: economics, energy, engineering, materials, neuroscience, robotics/AI, space

China wants to be the leading force in manned space exploration, and is exploring sending people to the far side of the moon, Mars, asteroids, and further into deep space.

Becoming the second largest economy in the world and an emerging superpower of its own, China wishes to add deep space exploration into its achievement portfolio. Besides the ongoing moon exploration, its scientists are considering going deeper into the solar system, including Mars, asteroids, and even manned deep-space mission. Liu Jizhong, director of the lunar exploration program and space engineering center, pointed out that China has to be more pioneering, tackling problems such as high speed deep space exploration, energy and power generation, space robot development, and more. He also said that China must cooperate with others as space exploration is an undertaking shared by the entire human species.

China currently intends to explore the far side of the moon, something that has never been done before. It would require a relay satellite for communication and navigation on Lagrange point, where the satellite could orbit within the combined gravitational pull of the Earth-moon system, as said by Zhang Lihua of China Spacesat Co. While China believes that robots are critical to the mission, it also believes that these trips must be manned in order to effectively leverage human decision-making. China also says they are designing footed robots to explore asteroids and better understand their material composition.

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Dec 16, 2015

Carlota Perez: In the midst of ICT revolution: next revolution 30 years out | vimeo.com

Posted by in categories: business, computing, economics, finance, governance, innovation, policy, robotics/AI, science, strategy

https://vimeo.com/53577644

Economist Carlota Perez talk about the future of ICT.

Dec 15, 2015

Universal basic income could arrive in Europe faster than you think

Posted by in category: economics

Several European countries are moving to adopt universal basic income schemes in the next few years. If any of them come to fruition we could finally get an answer to one of the most exciting questions in economics: whether basic income is the best way to end poverty and the welfare state:

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Dec 14, 2015

Jeremy Howard — ‘A.I. Is Progressing So Fast We Need a Basic Guaranteed Income’

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3jUtZvWLCM

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Dec 7, 2015

China Aims to Retool Its Manufacturing Industry with Robots

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI

China needs advanced robotics to help balance its economic, social, and technological ambitions with continued growth.

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Nov 30, 2015

Meet Zoltan, the presidential candidate who drives a coffin

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, economics, geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism

Excited to have a full feature on the BBC homepage on transhumanism and my growing presidential campaign. Transhumanist Party, speech at the World Bank, Immortality Bus, and universal basic income issues discussed:


Not many politicians running for the White House promise to end death. But not many politicians are Zoltan Istvan. Tim Maughan meets a man travelling America in a giant coffin-shaped bus to make his point.

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