Intrinsitivity

Report: Info overload costs $900 billion, blame Mr. Rogers

Between checking your Twitter feed, responding to an IM from an old college friend, and reading frivolous articles at tech news sites, you’re already less productive than you could have been today. But how much does such behavior actually cost your company, or the economy as a whole? One consulting firm thinks it has the unsettling answer: about $900 billion annually.

Will Artificial Organism with Advanced Group Intelligence Evolve?

Swarm robotics is a field of study based on the supposition that simple, individual robots can interact and collaborate to form a single artificial organism with more advanced group intelligence.

The World Question Center 2009

“What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?”