01. Jason Silva, National Geographic: Brain Games, Visits #theCUBE. (00:21)
02. Digital Transcendence Changes What Is Possible. (01:13)
03. Technology Evolves and Helps Us Evolve Concurrently. (07:26)
04. We Are a Story Taking Cues from the World. (09:19)
05. Too Much Exposure to Technology Can Be Overwhelming. (10:47)
06. Cognitive Merger of Biological and Non-Biological Intelligence. (15:56)
07. Technology to Augment the Mind. (17:23)
08. How the Mind Evolves. (19:42)
09. Are All Industries Subject to Disruption. (21:14)
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Jason Silva on the impact of technological disruption on humanity | #IBMinsight
by Andrew Ruggiero | Oct 27, 2015
The impact of technology on humanity has been both vilified and touted by many. What’s undisputed, however, is the fact that technology is evolving at an exponential rate, and according to Jason Silva, host of the National Geographic channel’s Brain Games, this clashes with the “linear rate” of human cognition. This insight among many, were uncovered by Paul Gillin and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, who discussed with Silva humanity relationship with technology from the origins of tool making to the future of technological co-evolution.
Technology is another tool
Silva explained that tools are what humans are great at utilizing. Beginning with the invention of stone tools 80,000 years ago, he explained that this led to a “decreased jaw size” in humans. This may have been due to the lessened strength and size of the mouth to break down large, hard tissues for consumption. The invention of cooking through fire, grilling to many, he stressed was critical to providing increased energy as it breaks down the food allowing nutrients to be absorbed more easily and quickly.
These tools were in essence the first technology, and technology by extension a tool, and there’s no doubt that humanity has an increasing appetite for new technology.
The impact today and looking at the future
Gillin brought up the overwhelming nature of technology and the anxiety brought by it, as well as the social responses to it in the form of creationism and support for simpler ways of doing things. While technology is overwhelming in many ways, it becomes greatly ingrained to the point where Silva says next we’ll be “missing” these technologies and that the harder problem for humans was dealing with the “speed” at which these changes occur. Extending on the idea of tools shaping humans, technology may similarly have an effect on our evolution as a species.
Silva points to a co-evolution of technology and people, which quickly prompted Gillin to note that the ease of search brings “atrophy” to memory and that not all of these changes may be positive. As with anything futurist, artificial intelligence (AI), may end up being one of those many technologies going forward that becomes as ingrained as cell phones have in places where even clean water is unavailable; a challenging conundrum.
@theCUBE
#IBMInsight
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Jason Silva - IBM Insight 2015 - theCUBE - #ibminsight
01. Jason Silva, National Geographic: Brain Games, Visits #theCUBE. (00:21)
02. Digital Transcendence Changes What Is Possible. (01:13)
03. Technology Evolves and Helps Us Evolve Concurrently. (07:26)
04. We Are a Story Taking Cues from the World. (09:19)
05. Too Much Exposure to Technology Can Be Overwhelming. (10:47)
06. Cognitive Merger of Biological and Non-Biological Intelligence. (15:56)
07. Technology to Augment the Mind. (17:23)
08. How the Mind Evolves. (19:42)
09. Are All Industries Subject to Disruption. (21:14)
Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com.
--- ---
Jason Silva on the impact of technological disruption on humanity | #IBMinsight
by Andrew Ruggiero | Oct 27, 2015
The impact of technology on humanity has been both vilified and touted by many. What’s undisputed, however, is the fact that technology is evolving at an exponential rate, and according to Jason Silva, host of the National Geographic channel’s Brain Games, this clashes with the “linear rate” of human cognition. This insight among many, were uncovered by Paul Gillin and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, who discussed with Silva humanity relationship with technology from the origins of tool making to the future of technological co-evolution.
Technology is another tool
Silva explained that tools are what humans are great at utilizing. Beginning with the invention of stone tools 80,000 years ago, he explained that this led to a “decreased jaw size” in humans. This may have been due to the lessened strength and size of the mouth to break down large, hard tissues for consumption. The invention of cooking through fire, grilling to many, he stressed was critical to providing increased energy as it breaks down the food allowing nutrients to be absorbed more easily and quickly.
These tools were in essence the first technology, and technology by extension a tool, and there’s no doubt that humanity has an increasing appetite for new technology.
The impact today and looking at the future
Gillin brought up the overwhelming nature of technology and the anxiety brought by it, as well as the social responses to it in the form of creationism and support for simpler ways of doing things. While technology is overwhelming in many ways, it becomes greatly ingrained to the point where Silva says next we’ll be “missing” these technologies and that the harder problem for humans was dealing with the “speed” at which these changes occur. Extending on the idea of tools shaping humans, technology may similarly have an effect on our evolution as a species.
Silva points to a co-evolution of technology and people, which quickly prompted Gillin to note that the ease of search brings “atrophy” to memory and that not all of these changes may be positive. As with anything futurist, artificial intelligence (AI), may end up being one of those many technologies going forward that becomes as ingrained as cell phones have in places where even clean water is unavailable; a challenging conundrum.
@theCUBE
#IBMInsight
