Kaila Colbin on the Nature of Technological Innovation and the Implications for Society
In this podcast, recorded at the Agile New Zealand conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kaila Colbin from the Ministry of Awesome and Singularity University about the Nature of Technological Innovation and the Implications for Society
Why listen to this podcast:
- The nature of technological innovation and the implications for society
- The doubling curve which shows how innovations advance (eg Mooreβs Law)
- The doubling in price-performance trend applies to any technology once it becomes information enabled
- The convergence of multiple technologies which are on a doubling curve
- Technology advances because of usefulness β the more useful something becomes the more we invest in it
- These technologies need a more robust conversation than what we are currently having in society
- The ethical obligations of programmers β consciously exploring the implications of the work that we do; will the code we write have a net contribution to humanity
- Even if your job is safe β what is the implication of living in a society with massive inequality, political and social unrest and economic instability?
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