Technological futurism

Use of artificial intelligence in the field of medicine. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A new proposal: to give artificial intelligence a license to practice medicine

One of the most respected medical journals in the world published an article with an unusual proposal: to approve artificial intelligence in a way similar to the approval process that human doctors go through. Or in other words: to grant artificial intelligence a license to practice medicine for another
Dr. Aya Sofer, Director of the IBM Research Center in Israel at the Silicon Club meeting, Usafia, June 2023. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve our lives in a variety of ways"

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Dr. Aya Sofer, director of IBM's research laboratory in Israel, was a guest at the high-tech Silicon Club managers' forum: "Besides the many advantages, there are also, of course, not easy challenges, such as a built-in bias in models or data,
A soldier in science fiction. Illustration: depositphotos.com

How governments use science fiction to predict potential threats

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There are many topics that science fiction deals with that will undoubtedly feed defense research around warfare and ways to reduce risk. While we can never predict the future completely, we can only
A futuristic utopia. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The climate crisis and the dangers of "long-term thinkers" with an obsession with technology

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A British philosopher believes that we must change economic thinking from the short to the long term, but avoid using the same technological utopias that brought us the climate crisis
According to a prediction by the Rand Institute from the sixties of the 20th century, in the current decade we were supposed to meet aliens. Illustration: shutterstock

Failed predictions from history - and the reasons for them

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Isaac Asimov. Illustration: shutterstock

100 years since the birth of Isaac Asimov: how he described 2019 (and a rich archive)

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From the right: Dr. Shlomo Markel, Ruth Poliakinen Baruchi, Tzipi Ozer Amron, Benny Schneider, Dan Inbar. Source: Israel Malovni.

"The leading company in 2030 will not be Google or Amazon, but a company we don't know"

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iNNOVEX conference. Source: conference website.

What will our lives look like in 2030?

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Tesla Model 3 vehicles. Source: Steve Jurvetson.

The future of electric vehicles - and the meaning for all of us

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Source: Matternet.

Switzerland launches automated delivery service using drones

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In five years will it be possible to shrink a laboratory to the size of a sensor? In the photo: a silicon wafer developed by IBM to sort particles found in body fluids in order to enable early detection of diseases. Source: IBM.

IBM reveals five technological innovations that will change our lives in the next five years

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Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) arrive in 2015. Screenshot from the movie "Back to the Future 2"

Even without flying cars, the real future is much more interesting than the one predicted in the movie "Back to the Future 2"

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What will we do for a living in the future? Illustration: shutterstock

The future of the future - the fourth wave - creative entrepreneurship / Yankee Margalit

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Isaac Asimov on a throne full of hints about his works. From Wikipedia. GNU license (link to image)

What did Asimov foresee in 1964 that would be established in the Negev in 2014?

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