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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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What best distinguishes our species is an ability that scientists are just beginning to appreciate: We contemplate the future. Our singular foresight created civilization and sustains society. It usually lifts our spirits, but it’s also the source of most depression and anxiety, whether we’re evaluating our own lives or worrying about the nation. Other animals have springtime rituals for educating the young, but only we subject them to “commencement” speeches grandly informing them that today is the first day of the rest of their lives.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT This article provides a short summary of this new book, homo prospectus. It sheds light into how our brain works and why it is in fact prediction machine, always predicting the future.
I wrote about a similar book in the past, On Intelligence, which I also strongly recommend.
For more on intelligence posts I wrote, look here: http://fmcs.digital/blog/tag/intelligence/ 
Dave berkeley's curator insight,
June 8, 2017 8:49 AM
Always striving to live in the moment is sometimes difficult. I would add our brain also wants to dwell on the past as well.What say you?
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
We often hear of AI and machine learning using neural networks and deep learning algorithms. In parallel, there are many other efforts being deployed to understand the brain to try and mimic it. This is a series of articles in IEEE Spectrum that provide just the right level of technical insights to help you understand where we stand on the matter. Many hours of interesting reading ahead!