The Long Now Foundation's monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking present Tim O'Reilly Birth of the Global Mind “The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex ‘multicellular minds,‘" says Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker Faires, Make magazine.) Speech allowed us to...
[read more] The Long Now Foundation's monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking present Tim O'Reilly Birth of the Global Mind “The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex ‘multicellular minds,‘" says Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker Faires, Make magazine.) Speech allowed us to communicate and coordinate. Writing allowed that coordination to span time and space. Twentieth century mass communications allowed shared information and culture to blanket the world. In the 21st century, memes spread mind to mind in nearly real time. But that's not all. In one breakthrough computer application after another, we see a new kind of man-machine symbiosis. The Google autonomous vehicle turns out not to be just a triumph of artificial intelligence algorithms. The car is guided by the cloud memory of roads driven before by human Google Streetview drivers augmented by powerful and precise new sensors. In the same way, crowd-sourced data from sensor-enabled humans is leading to smarter cities, breakthroughs in healthcare, and new economies. The future belongs not to artificial intelligence, but to collective intelligence. Links and more info on Tim O'Reilly at LongNow.org Doors open at 7:00pm, event starts at 7:30pm at The Cowell Theater in San Francisco If you'd like a pre-Seminar bite, Greens Restaurant has a happy hour from 5-7pm. We’re also having a reception at the Long Now Museum after the Seminar. You can follow Long Now on Twitter and Facebook.
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