David Wooden on the Singularity Rules

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The Singularity Rules is a singular, complete, and principled framework for driving the tsunami of change coming our manner, as a substitute of drowning in it. It’s a one-of-a-kind work written by an individual who’s singularly certified with the required data, skilled expertise, and required self-discipline to supply it.

David Wooden is a futurist, catalyst, creator, and singularitarian. He has written a complete of 11 books and now we have already had two rewarding conversations. So, as quickly as you end this implausible interview chances are you’ll wish to take a look at our earlier ones right here: David Wooden on Transcending Politics and David Wooden on Transhumanism.

Throughout this 2-hour dialog with David Wooden, we cowl quite a lot of fascinating matters such because the story behind the Singularity Rules; David’s concern we’re dropping management over our tech; the best hazard to humanity; techno-solutionism and the hole between our energy and our knowledge; the usefulness of ethics; why the proactionary precept is inadequate; Moore’s Regulation and Demi Moore’s Regulation; the Transhumanist and the Singularitarian Stances; the AI Alignment and Management Issues; Wooden’s definition of the Singularity; Christopher Columbus’ Quest and the significance of story with respect to AI.

One among my favourite quotes that I’ll take away from this dialog with David Wooden is his definition of the singularity:

The profound change within the human situation triggered by the appearance of greater-than-human intelligence.

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Who’s David Wooden?

After a roller-coaster profession as a pioneer of the smartphone trade – together with co-founding Symbian in 1998 – David Wooden is now a full-time futurist speaker, analyst, commentator, and author.

David’s focus is on potential radical transformations in society and humanity – transformations enabled by accelerating technological disruption and mediated by the social and political response.

Wooden’s background is in designing, architecting, implementing, supporting, and avidly utilizing sensible cellular gadgets. This contains ten years with PDA producer Psion PLC, ten extra with smartphone working system specialist Symbian Ltd, and three years as CTO (Expertise Planning Lead) for Accenture Mobility.

David is the creator or lead editor of eleven books, the latest of which is The Singularity Rules. Earlier books embody “Important Foresight”, “The Abolition of Growing old”, “Smartphones and Past”, and “Sustainable Superabundance”.

In 2009 David Wooden was included in T3’s listing of “100 most influential individuals in know-how”.

In 2010 he was featured on the earth’s first Augmented Actuality CV.

Alongside David’s consulting actions, Wooden is chair of London Futurists – a non-profit meetup group with over 9,000 members.

David Wooden has an MA in Arithmetic from Cambridge College and an honorary doctorate in science (DSc) from the College of Westminster.