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‘Superintelligence’ in Seattle: AI researchers do a reality check on a movie that adds romance to tech

GeekWire

Although the action is set in Seattle, much of the principal filming was actually done in Georgia. “The AI is omniscient and basically omnipotent, so long as it has internet, right?” “I don’t think I saw any Amazon clues in the film.” But how much substance is there behind the spotlight?

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

Kasriel worked at the Medialab of The Guardian newspaper back in the early days of the Internet, before leading the Knowledge Venturing team at the Henley Centre consultancy for a decade, and then founding Futureal. Kothbauer launched the first web portal in Sweden in 1995, and she was quick to introduce e-commerce to the public sector.

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