Categories: Articles

When The Future Comes Faster

Can you really say that technology does not touch the work that you do?

We tend to see things in a linear fashion. It’s human nature. The truth is that we are at an amazing inflection point where exponential growth and advancements in technology are bringing things to market in a faster and more powerful way. When I speak like this, I’m often confronted by people with a quizzical look on their face. Technology can be confusing enough, but add in the notion of exponential growth, and it’s enough to make a brain (or two) explode. Thankfully, we have people like Ray Kurzweil who can explain it. In this recent talk at Google in support of his new book, How to Create a Mind – The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, the inventor, futurist and author explains the innovations in technology and just how quickly they are happening. To sum it up: the future is happening much faster than I thought.

Watch this…

(in other news: hug your kids, stay safe and if you think someone is struggling with depression or mental illness, speak to them, get them help and if we kill the stigma maybe we’ll stop killing one another).

Mitch Joel

Recent Posts

Joe Principe Of Rise Against On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

“Wait... did I miss something? Why is there an article about a bass podcast on…

8 hours ago

AI And The Knowledge Economy With Sangeet Paul Choudary – This Week’s Thinking With Mitch Joel Conversation

Episode #1040 of Thinking With Mitch Joel is now live. This conversation with Sangeet Paul…

1 day ago

AI And The Knowledge Economy With Sangeet Paul Choudary – TWMJ #1040

Welcome to episode #1040 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation). Long…

1 day ago

Six Links That Make You Think #835

Is there one link, story or idea that stopped you this week… and made you…

2 days ago

The Most Dangerous Thing AI Might Replace

I love the art of writing and I also love how technology changes that art.…

3 days ago

The Most Human Thing About Artificial Intelligence

I'm starting to wonder if the massive disconnect in terms of understanding artificial intelligence comes…

5 days ago

This website uses cookies.