by traviskellerman | Jun 4, 2019 | The Future
Evil Digital Twins $ Written by In “This group has a 72% conversion if shown Series 12B.” “72? No. We need to sell 5,000 more by EOD to hit target, right? Ok, run the top twin categories again. Find 8,000, to be safe, and add a decent mood shift tolerance. I want at...
by traviskellerman | May 8, 2019 | The Future
Robotophobia & the old-new Human Role (Ask a Futurist) $ Written by In Consider this issue #1 of FutureSin’s Ask A Futurist series. Michael K. Spencer and Travis Kellerman answer FAQ’s and concerns we hear often on the future roles of humans and machines. ...
by traviskellerman | Sep 10, 2018 | The Future
Reddit is a “Crowdsourced Relevancy Engine” $ Written by In TLDR; A former Redditor shares how millions of anonymous comments and users show our collective human preferences Luis Bitencourt-Emilio dropped out of Machine Learning, and formal education, in 2004. ML had...
by traviskellerman | Aug 18, 2018 | The Future
Would you share your indoors for the rest of the world to see? $ Written by In It was a hot summer afternoon on the USC campus and the session on “Mapping the World in 3D” was underway in a classroom filled with resolute engineers and “data enthusiasts.” This...
by traviskellerman | Jul 25, 2018 | The Future
Sci-Fi Let Us All Down, For The Better $ Written by In Ona hot summer day in 1990, I saw the box at the back of a garage sale. The old man who owned the hundreds of books in it had died that spring. He was a pure, devoted geek with active subscriptions to the...