Wise people say “make the most of the time you have been given. Life is precious. It will all end one day and it will be over before you know it.” But what if that wasn’t true. What if there was no end? What if your time on this earth was essentially limitless. Prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil and the president of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation, Aubrey de Grey both believe longevity...
The future vs Humans – Robots and Construction
It’s 2028 and your small building business has just invested in five humanoid robots. The rent to own option is much less than the cost of a human employee. These robots arrive, out of the box, as mid level builders. Effectively, just like a human employee, you have the option of hiring a junior, middle or senior level of experience, all with the associated level of ongoing cost. Operational...
The Dawn of Artificial Beings and the Future of Humanity
The AI revolution is here and it is altering the very fabric of our economic markets. It is changing the nature of work and our sense of purpose. Environments have always changed and sometimes this change is dramatic. Industrialisation, printing press, and computers have all created a Great Leap forward and now we about to experience something more profound. In the next few years, millions of ai...
Born to expire
Your genetic information replicates in offspring to persist in the shared timeline known as Coordinated Universal Time, UTC. In any one moment of UTC measurement, every human alive has a biological age, relative to their lifespan and eventual time of death. These are billions of individual human timelines in various stages of completion. Each iteration of your genetic line, experience...
The Human Time Machine
A boat moves forward, drifting in the gentle current. A single candle lights its way, the journey revealed from light in the darkness. Looking back, a wake gradually fades behind the boat, into the distance. Time is an expanding sequence of memories and artifacts, anchored by the relentless flow of “now” moments. Human reality is data processed into information which in turn becomes shared...