Jan 24, 2022
Innovation Intelligence Review #22
AI: Earthquakes and Weapons, Apocalypse Now, China Military Brain Science, FB and Gaming, Inequality, Quantum PC, Smell, Sport-Essay
AI (1) and Earthquakes prediction, earthquake prediction is currently impossible but through big-data on the one hand and machine learning on the other, we are getting there, geo-gaia intelligence by The Economist,
AI (2) and Weapons, last week I reported dystopias with regards to autonomous weapon systems. This is instead a good analysis of how they act, with reference to the US Air Force, and the current limits, innovation intelligence by The New Yorker
Apocalypse Now, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist, which estimates for 75 years how much is missing from the doomsday, has confirmed the hands by 100 seconds towards midnight: never so close, for exogenous and endogenic reasons, to annihilation, social intelligence
China Military Brain Science, an interesting Chinese paper on how brain studies can affect military science: not just AI and brain interface. Also useful for the classification of the different disciplines from a Chinese point of view (āa body two wingsā), military intelligence
Facebook and Gaming, a Meta report which, analyzing social inclusion in gaming in 5 countries, makes it clear what are the strategic reasons for the approach to the metaverse and guess which could be the possible development theaters, competitive intelligence by Facebook IQ
Inequality, 2022 World Inequality Report, 50% of population owns 2% of total wealth and 1% owns 38%: period. Social intelligence
Privacy and Govs, a good global analysis of the pervasiveness of police control on social networks, individual intelligence by Comparitech
Quantum PC, as announced in April, NSA has made operational LCQ, a research center on the development of quantum technologies, open to any sector organization, innovation intelligence by US Office of DNI
Smell is the most rooted sense, at the level of mnemonic recall, in the brain, the most subjective, the least describable but it is also the least studied: the new impulses of the science of smells, science intelligence, by NYT
Sport and Science, the availability of big-data, computational power and new bio-chemical analysis methodologies is revolutionizing training and triggering conflicts on the bio-authenticity of the results obtained: the example of the triathlon, sport intelligence by NYT
Essay š§
(Tech) Geopolitics and Geoeconomics, a debate has been going on for some time on Foreing Policy, which sees on the one hand the supporters of the thesis that Big Tech are sovereign entitie and should be treated as such; on the other hand, those who refute the argument because, if potentially, one can live without ādigitalā it is impossible to do so without space and physical resources. The debate is useful to follow because historical and anthropological examples are brought to support the theses: they help to address the topic. Now Parag Khanna enters the debate with the idea that the shaping of traditional sovereignty does not have to deal with Big Tech but, rather, with the internet and its next developments. Strongly recommended, innovation intelligence by Foreing Policy
