Futurist Gerd Leonhard produced this video on digital transformation.
The future is coming–be ready!
Month: May 2018
Google’s Project Maven for the Department of Defense
Google is presently working on an artificial intelligence drone project. The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) has sent an open letter to Google urging them to withdraw from Project Maven and to commit to not weaponizing it’s technology.
Considering implanting a micro-chip under your skin?
Last week, we had an ethics discussion in my Accounting II class about the rise of technology. While the discussion was primarily focused on MotoBot as representing the threat of the rise of robots and artificial intelligence that is designed to exceed human performance, we also discussed micro-chipping people and what incentives could be used, or misused, to encourage people to be micro-chipped. Aside from Christian religious arguments (Revelations 13) against micro-chipping people, there are numerous ethical obstacles that anyone contemplating this procedure should consider.
Click here for the Business Insider article on micro-chipping people.
Journal of Accountancy Podcast, “What CPAs need to know about providing services to marijuana businesses”
Whether or not you are a CPA, if you are an accountant and wish to provide services to a marijuana business, you should listen to this podcast.
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/jofa/episodes/2018-04-18T15_11_28-07_00