Making the future, James Burke (Author) Strata Data Conference UK 2019
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Technology changes so fast these days that we spend much of our time just keeping up. Prediction, difficult enough at any time, is made even more complex when big data and predictive analytics immensely increase the number of options we need to consider. Is this because when we make decisions about the future, we tend to do so with one eye on the rearview mirror? To what extent is all prediction constrained by the contemporary paradigm in which we find ourselves and our businesses? Is there any way to break free from these constraints? Is there a pattern to the process of change that could be used to second-guess events ahead of time?
James Burke asks whether we can use big data and predictive analytics at the social level to take the guesswork out of prediction and make the future what we all want it to be. If so, this would give us the tools to handle what looks like being the greatest change to the way we live since we left the caves. A change that, some say, is due to happen within the next 50 years. A change that will alter everything.
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James Burke, like his Connections series 40 years ago (which aired when I was 1 years old) , is still fantastically relevant. I just watched Connections again, and the points made ring as true now, if not truer, then they did when it aired. Glad to see he is still sharp and motivated. We're better for it.
No they're not. He got it completely wrong
Sean McGahee Remarkable isn’t he? I found the original Connections series and purchased it, as I did with his 1985 series “The Day The Universe Changed”. This one 5 minute clip is extraordinary, my daughter (who was born the year his latter series aired) and I are freaked out!
Wow!
James Burke, what a fantastic human being, able to inform and enlighten simple humans like I.
I can inform and enlighten you too. Your grammar is wrong. "simple humans like me" (object pronoun!!!!)
When you hear James Burke describe the beginnings of the Replicator from Star Trek.... Wow... just, wow!!!
Attended his lecture about 8 years ago and it changed my life. Thank you!
I remember him on Thursday nights BBC1 after Top Of The Pops. Studio bound, doing some sort of experiments. Peak viewing TV!!
I was too young to know what was going on. But I remember that same enthusiastic, bright, knowledgeable delivery. Remarkable to see him here!
If you'd like to see a brand new 2020 interview with James Burke, you can find it here: th-cam.com/video/mUb6Sv-rUv0/w-d-xo.html
considering his advanced age... (and I am close to I grew up watching tomorrows world and loved it myself) I undersrand his urgency... Hid insight id phenomenal... love this guy pleases say more on a personal introspective level and teach us how to think
Still doing CONNECTIONS! after all these years, delightful. Computer: Tea . . Earl Grey . . .Hot.
My hero.
James ~Always was an inspiration - God bless your wisdom.
"draconian". Gosh, he's onto something.
To make a cup of tea at the atomic level, how much energy is required? How much energy is wasted in the process? Remember, you have to do it atom by atom. That's nanotech. Taking some tea leaves and pouring near-boiling water over them isn't.
Tea production and transportation are far from energy free as well. Although Burke addresses your concern with his "spray on solar" tech, that sounds a little optimistic. Either way, without a massive shift in the paradigm for energy production, even not considering climate change, humanity is in for a rough 22nd century.
Its like a nano production line, the motors that run it are also on nano scale, which will use very small amounts of power, sure there will be an enormous amount of them depending on the print surface , but still much less than someone would think of, its not making anything, just taking things apart and rearranging the atoms to the things you want, like moving boxes in a warehouse with automation bots, its much more efficient.
And the tea would be printed in hot tea form inside the cup that's printed at the same time, so yes it is nanotech.
@@ricosuave6898 this fabricator can also take the Carbon and Oxygen apart that makes up Co2, leaving you with Oxygen and a block of carbon to be used for other stuff ^^
“... no doubt it could ...”
That’s a ‘definite maybe’
I’m not sure what his position is.
mike casanave
I’ve always been captured by Burke since his earliest of his BBC series. He is a futurist.
So basically the replicators from the Star Trek universe are real now?
yes but for now, things will likely come up out of the fabricator, instead of in the air like Star trek, but I'm sure that wouldn't take that long after this one, ever thought about where the waist goes on a starship ^^, nothing is created or destroyed, just recycled.
Star trek replicators are going to be really possible?
yes but for now, things will likely come up out of the fabricator, instead of in the air like Star trek, but I'm sure that wouldn't take that long after this one, ever thought about where the waist goes on a starship ^^, nothing is created or destroyed, just recycled.
Love James Burke, but he's starting look like Davros.
I followed that link and it does NOT go to the full lecture. I was interested in an update of what his deal is since ALL his predictions from his old TV show ended up DEAD WRONG. How does he address this? I refer to the 2 shows about warming where he assumes an announcer from 2050. EVERYTHING past the original air date was embarresingly wrong.
He predicted lots of stuff right in roundabout ways, such as the internet and even Trump.
What are you talking about?
Actually... his predictions have been spot on. He warned n the conclusion of The Day The Universe Changed about how telecommunications married to the computer was going to change everything by giving every person access to information uncurated, and how that could well lead to a world without any centralized governmental authority. He warned that it could rise to as many different views of “truth” as their are people. What we are living thru TODAY is the internet spreading lies and disinformation and being re-tweeted and posted by communities of similarly deranged people with fringe views. The Internet is Balkanizing the world views of citizens of every nation to the point where they no longer have any cohesive national identity and are becoming incapable of forming any kind of electoral consensus.
We CAN’T address climate change because we can’t get enough voters to even agree that it is occurring, much less whether it is a threat.
That is, the changes he warned of regarding the internet, are only just now beginning to unfold.
Democracy is impossible in a world where there simply ISN’T a ‘majority’ view on what is real.
Not sure about predictions, but its already here at least stage 1, the moving and rearranging of atoms, just a matter of time to build the rest, and once the first one is done, it will print the next one and so on, till all homes have one.
and before you say money this and that, the moment this can print another, money will be useless.
The inventor of Wikipedia!
He didn't mention fake data.
Or the SUN'S role in our climate.
Or the dreaded " GRAY GOO " from nano gone wild......
Still love the old boy.
Memories of being ignorant about everything.
Biology, not nanotechnology, will save our BIOsphere.