A History of Silicon Valley

A Timeline of Computing

Virtual Reality

Blockchain technology

The Metaverse

A Timeline of Hacker Culture

A tour of Silicon Valley

Intelligence is not Artificial

Cognitive Science and A.I

Timeline of Artificial Intelligence

A.I. and the Singularity

History of Electricity

History of the Radio

History of the Record

History of the Telephone

History of Television

History of Cinema

A History of Videogames

Art/Science/Tech talks

Humankind 2.0 - Future of Technology

• Big Data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Virtual Reality
• Internet of Things
• Nanotech
• Biotech
• Social Media and Sharing Economy
• Fin-tech and Blockchain
• 3D Printing
• Wearables
• Space and Drones
• Slides

• Slides of my class on Cognitive Science (Audience: generalists with college-level education)
• "The Best Kept Secret in Silicon Valley" for the Chinese Academy of Art (September 2015) (Audience: art students and cultural historians)
• "The Singularity and you" (March 2015) (Not very useful actually: they forced me to summarize the A.I. presentation)
• "Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity" for the LAST festival (October 2014) (Audience: college-level education, generalists, sociologists, cultural historians)
• My Chinese lectures on Silicon Valley (September 2014) (Audience: general public - this is a companion to the book "A History of Silicon Valley" - history and trends)
• "The Best Kept Secret of Silicon Valley" for the Alpbach Technology Forum (August 2014) (Audience: general public)
• A Brief History of Creativity from Athens to Silicon Valley (UC Davis 2014) (Audience: general public - this will evolve into "Best Kept Secret")
• Creativity is a why, not a what - Biology, History and Thermodynamics of Creative Processes (USF 2014) (Audience: business-school students)
• Demystifying Machine Intelligence (Audience: general public - this is a summary of my book "Intelligence is not Artificial")
• Why mix art and science; why Silicon Valley happened here?; What is unique about humans?; The difference between you and it (UC Santa Cruz 2013) (Audience: general public - this will evolve into "Best Kept Secret")
• A brief History of Silicon Valley (Audience: general public)
• A brief History of Silicon Valley (San Jose State Univ 2013) (Audience: this is a version for art students)
• Machine Intelligence vs Human Stupidity: Are we building smarter machines or dumber humans? (USF 2012) (Audience: general public)
• Art, Science & Creativity (Sunnyvale Art Institute 2012) (Audience: art students)
• Alan Turing and the Programmable Universe (Audience: general public - this will evolve into "Machine Intelligence vs Human Stupidity")
• What is the Dao of an Ant: A Tour of Cognitive Science (Audience: general public)