George Zarkadakis
Writer
George Zarkadakis is a science writer, novelist and artificial intelligence engineer. His latest book is In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (Rider Books, 2016). He is currently helping build a blockchain-based open protocol to democratize AI and enable self-sovereignty of data. He is also writing a new book on AI and politics. He lives in London.
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Future of technology
Do platforms work?
The distributed network has gobbled the hierarchical firm. Only by seizing the platform can workers avoid digital serfdom
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Future of technology
The economy is more a messy, fractal living thing than a machine
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Religion
Ladder to heaven
I have turned away from the church but, up on Mount Athos, I turned on to the mysteries of Orthodox meditation
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Beauty and aesthetics
Love machines
From Pygmalion to Bladerunner, we keep falling for our robot creations. But then, what else is AI good for?
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