First TEDxVienna (2010)
First TEDxKlagenfurt (2013 f)
Tage der Zukunft in Ossiach
future.talk-Event: Wir brauchen gute Gatekeeper
Marion ist seit Jahren mit der Arbeit in Konzernen und EU-Projekten vertraut, berät Companies, StartUps und Konferenzveranstalter wie First TEDx Vienna (2010), First TEDx Klagenfurt 2013) oder 2007-2012: Interviews, Pressearbeit, Communications für die Softwareexperten der Semantic Web Company www.semantic-web.at sowie für mehrere Konferenzen in diesem Kontext.
z.B. Thema “Future Internet”: Welche Chancen und Risiken birgt das ZukunftsWeb für Individuum, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft, was kann es leisten? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich das Projekt, das die Semantic Web Company 2009 ins Leben gerufen hat. Dazu erschien auch ein Buch, das ZukunftsWebBuch, das ich mit herausgab. Hier mein Artikel zum Thema:
… übrigens… habe unlängst folgenden Artikel entdeckt… aus anno 1998: …”… Zuerst muß diese Verwirrung öffentlich verhandelt werden, dann erst läßt sich Privatheit mit Aussicht auf Erfolg verteidigen.” – Hm.
Privatsphäre im Internet. Anekdoten und Analysen *
Herbert Hrachovec
* Literatur
. u.a.
Herbert Hrachovec: Das Wunder Electronic Mail in: Marion Fuglewicz (ed.) Das Internet Lesebuch. Hintergründe, Trends, Perspektiven. Wien 1996. S.53ff
Why transcend our biology? Ray Kurzweils questionable future forecast
February 22, 2008 By: Marion Fuglewicz-Bren
By 2029 well have intelligent nanobots go into our brains
to make us smarter, said Ray Kurzweil. The inventor and futurist is a pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, futurism and more. The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health. (BBC-News).
Mr. Kurzweil is one of 18 influential thinkers chosen to identify the great technological challenges facing humanity in the 21st century by the US National Academy of Engineering. The experts include Google founder Larry Page and genome pioneer Dr. Craig Venter.
I have consistently predicted that by 2029 we will be able to create machines that pass the Turing test, says Kurzweil. The result will be a formidable combination, uniting the subtlety and suppleness of human intelligence with the ways in which machines are already superior for example, in their ability to download knowledge at electronic speeds
But this will not be an alien invasion of intelligent machines: rather, we will merge with the tools we are creating.
Friends, Romans, Brothers and Sisters of the Free Spirit, are you sure, this is what we really want? Is this the quality of life were aiming at?
In 1990, when people around the globe were hyped by Virtual Reality and the idea of doing anything to anyone and pursuing all kinds of dreams to come true in cyberspace. I read and wrote lots of articles on this sexy topic, in all kinds of media, and believe me, it was not (only) a yellow press topic. As an apologist of words, language and communications I was fascinated by the matter and all imaginable new future opportunities of How Real is Real? and all kinds of virtual realities.
And the fascination about reality to me seemingly couldnt exist amongst animate beings without communication. Every communication has a content and relationship aspect such that the latter classifies the former and is therefore a metacommunication. Thus Mister Communication Paul Watzlawick. This means that all communication includes, apart from the plain meaning of words, more information information on how the talker wants to be understood and how he himself sees his relation to the receiver of information.
Wow. Hi, semantics. Lets return to Mister Kurzweil. He names the (wish of) merging with the tools we are creating. The historically old concept of a homunculus (Latin for little man; the diminutive of homo, man) is often used to illustrate the functioning of a system. In the scientific sense of an unknowable prime actor, it can be viewed as an entity or agent. The homunculus-motive has often been revisited within (not only classic) literature particularly to demonstrate the ambivalence of modern techniques.
here is an independent, feature-length documentary being made about Ray Kurzweil, his life, and his ideas called Transcendent Man. Filmmakers Barry and Felicia Ptolemy follow the inventor and futurist around the globe documenting his world-wide speaking tour. Scheduled for release in 2009[6], Transcendent Man, documents Rays quest to reveal mankinds ultimate destiny and explores many of the ideas found in his New York Times bestselling book, The Singularity is Near, including his concept of exponential growth, radical life expansion, and how we will transcend our biology.
So, what the hell is all this transcending about? What is this universal social-web-fever all about? Is it about communication? Is it about transcending ones own insufficiency? Is it about desire? Still fascinated and curious whats going to happen:
Marion.
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, meta communication, social web, virtual reality