Cybernetic 8 — Volume 5

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 — the Cybernetic 8 in October

• The tech war is getting more intense, and China is playing a huge role in that. This story by Bloomberg reads like a thriller — LINK
• Meanwhile in California, according to The Guardian the first autonomous robot farm may show the future of agriculture — LINK
• Talking about the future of food, this Report suggests that mushrooms could be a big factor for lab grown meat — LINK
• In Neurotech, researchers are making interesting progress in terms of brain-to-brain communication between humans — LINK
• However, there are always two sides of a coin, and neurotech can also be a dangerous tool if in the wrong Hands, as The Atlantic reports— LINK

• Creating truly smart robots is a tough task, as this report in the MIT Technology Review shows. But future AI reserach may help. — LINK
• This AI bot by Google invented a new way of walking for its virtual robot and it looks bizarre (but it is effective…) — LINK
• Finally, around All saints day, people always are more aware about their mortality. Could digital immortality be a way out? — LINK

Anything else?

Talking about walking robots, take a look at Atlas, the Robot created by BostonDynamics, doing a parkour:

Closing remarks

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