During the weekend, there was much hype on the internet about OpenAI's latest research project: a "bot" that can play the popular Dota 2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2] computer game. I quote from OpenAI's announcement [https://blog.openai.com/dota-2/]: > »
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg presented his vision [https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-global-community/10154544292806634] for Facebook as the future platform for "building global community" across the whole world in both the political and the private sphere. Zuckerberg's plans for the future deserves some critical analysis: »
The technological singularity scenario [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity] anticipates an exponential improvement in technology, especially artificial intelligence, which would create superhuman intelligence and transform the world into a science fiction-like society. It is debated whether such a trend can currently be observed. An introduction to the debate »
The cashless society has been in vogue lately. There seems to be a strong underlying current in society wanting to transform the way money changes hands. If there is an easy prediction to make, it would be that the days of physical cash are numbered. The process has been going »
