Cybernetic 8 — Volume 18

8 interesting things from a cybernetic world

What is this all about?

This newsletter is an irregular collection of the most interesting news from the tech and startup world I came across in the last couple of weeks, prepared and bite-sized for your reading pleasure.

It will mostly cover topics around #technology #startups #deeptech #neurotech #ai #robotics #decentalization #lifescience #healthtech #complexity #cybernetics #constructivism and #futurism, but also include some funny or otherwise noteworthy stuff from time to time.

Why cybernetic 8? Learn more about this worldview here, here or here.

Here we go → your Cybernetic 8

• We have all been waiting for it, and here it is. Legendary investor Mary Meeker published her annual #internet #trends report 2019 — LINK
• In another widely known and often referred to report series, Benedict Evans looks at the #trends of #mobile. Now, as seemingly everyone and their mother are online, he calls his post “the end of mobile”— LINK

• Switching gears now to something more related to the title of this publication, here is a fantastic conversation between Azeem Azhar with W. Brian Arthur, one of the founders of the discipline of #complexity #economics — LINK
• If you want to dive deeper into the fiel of #systems #theory and #complexity, especially in connection with personal development, I strongly recommend the new book from David Epstein. It makes the compelling argument why #generalists come out on top in a #complex, #volatile and #uncertain world (Hint: #variability might be a strong prerequisite for that). — LINK
• The human body is incredible, there are so many fantastic performances it can deliver and things it can overcome and endure. Researchers have now tried to find out the limits of #human #endurance— LINK
• #Neurotech also offers other marvelous (or frightening?) possibilities — what would you do with a 6th finger? #Nature has an interesting article on how additional limbs could be developed — LINK

• To make the humans even more powerful (and dangerous?) in the age of machines, #DARPA has a new project in the field of #BMI, brain-machine-interfaces, as Singularity Hub reports — LINK

• The MIT Technology Review has an interesting article on the #energy #consumption and the carbon footprint of training #AI models. Turns out this is pretty intense — LINK

Anything else?

Maybe I should rename this section the “Robot Video” section…anyways, here is another great video: