60 Seconds Into the Future

Cryptocurrency—sometimes referred to as “bit-currency”—uses a blockchain to record financial transactions using a public ledger.

Each page in the spreadsheet is its own record, called a block, with a link, called a hash, back to the previous block.

Digital Cryptography has become crucial for modern computer communication, ensuring not only greater privacy but also that the information has not been tampered with or changed in route.

ML can be used for censoring content deemed offensive by a controlling party, learning your purchasing habits to promote products to you, and delivering propaganda that is most likely to sway your opinions.

AI can not create computers intelligent like a human being, but instead will allow them to acquire and apply knowledge and skills, while appearing to be intelligent to humans.

Simply stated, creativity is the ability to take information from a variety often disparate sources and meld those ideas into new and novel ways of thinking about or solving a problem. Although computers are replacing humans for many tasks, creativity is something that computers cannot do, at least not in the way that we think of as human creativity.

MR differs from AR in that it requires a device that cannot only show the physical environment, but can also scan that environment to detect solid objects and their dimensions. Since this requires extra hardware, most commonly available devices that can do AR, are not candidates for MR.

AR can use hand-held digital devices, with front facing cameras, such as mobile phones and tablets. The camera will take in the surrounding live scene, and then place the virtual layer on top in real-time.

Virtual Reality — or VR — is a fully immersive digital experience, that completely replacing all visual and audio input for the individual . In other words, the outside world is completely obscured and replaced with a computer rendered world from the user's point-of-view.

We’ve heard the promise that it’s just “a few years away” at least since the early 1990s, but it has never achieved widespread adaption.

This podcast is for everyone looking for a short burst from the future to get their hopes, up and creativity high. 60 Seconds Into the Future will be available on my website, futurefuturist.com, and I’ll be posting to the twitter feed @future_futurist.