Everyone wants to know what’s to come—right?

[Michael Grove]

 [OUR] DESTINY dictated by NATURAL HISTORY, NOT
 TECHNOLOGY, WILL in[DEED] DICTATE our DESTINY

   ... but our obsession with predictions
     reveals much more about ourselves.

WHEN WE HUMANS imagine the future, it is common to picture ourselves nested within an ecosystem populated by robots, devices, and virtual realities. The future is shining and technological. The future is digital, ones and zeros, electricity and invisible connections. The dangers of the future—automation and artificial intelligence—are of our own invention. Nature is an afterthought in our contemplation of what comes next, a transgenic potted plant behind a window that does not open. Most depictions of the future do not even include nonhuman life, except on distant farms (tended by robots) or in indoor gardens. We put up a levee between our civilizations and the rest of life, and that’s a mistake—both because it is not possible to hold life at bay and because in trying to achieve such a scenario, we do so at our own expense.

Not only does this defy our place in nature, but
also what we know about the rules of nature.

[Michael Grove]

Credit Suisse has tapped the Swiss central bank for a $54bn (£45bn) lifeline as regulators scramble to avert the risk of a global banking meltdown, sending its shares surging this morning after a record plunge yesterday. The embattled lender said overnight that it plans to borrow £45bn from the Swiss National Bank and buy back some of its debt in a bid to shore up its finances and calm investor fears about its financial health. The move means Credit Suisse will become the first major global bank to be given an emergency lifeline since the 2008 financial crisis.

[Michael Grove]

[IT] has been 40 years since the launch of the Apple Macintosh personal computer. Since then, technological innovation has accelerated – here are some of the most notable tech milestones over the past four decades.
The World Economic Forum’s EDISON Alliance aims to digitally connect 1 billion people to essential services like healthcare, education and finance by 2025.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/03/11-technology-milestones-ai-...

[Michael Grove]

APPLE CO-FOUNDER STEVE WOZNIAK HAS WARNED that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could make scams harder to spot because 'bad actors' would use the technology to trick people about their identities. Wozniak said AI content must be clearly labelled and regulation was needed for the sector, as he warned of the dangers of the technology.

'AI is so intelligent it's open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick you about who they are,' Wozniak, who founded Apple with Steve Jobs, told the BBC

[TIME] NOW methinks for some Human-Centric Thinking

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