Who is Messing with Your Digital Twin? Body, Mind, and Soul for Sale? | Dirk Helbing | TEDxIHEID

In his talk, Dirk Helbing addresses the future of surveillance. The combined use of nano, digital, AI, and quantum technologies might lead society to a whole new level of surveillance. This would not only leave our privacy behind… Dirk Helbing is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich and affiliate of its Computer Science Department. Furthermore, he is member of the external faculty of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.

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[Classics] More Is Different: Broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science.

P. W. ANDERSON
SCIENCE • 4 Aug 1972 • Vol 177, Issue 4047 • pp. 393-396

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Lipari Summer School: Complex networks: from socio-economic systems to biology and the brain

July 10th – July 16th, 2022

Lipari, Italy

More information at: secs22.liparischool.it

Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin | Lex Fridman Podcast

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conversation and debate about alien life and alien civilizations.

Listen at: lexfridman.com

Self-organization in Pedestrian and Traffic Systems and Logistics MOOC

•Content: 3 Modules, each consisting of several videos
•Estimated: 4 work weeks, 1h per week
•Self-paced, progress at your own speed
•No cost to enrol
•Subject: Computer Science, Traffic Systems, Social Science
•Level: Introductory
•Language: English
•Target groups: Students, citizen scientists, politicians, journalists, researchers of different fields
(urban planners, architects, computer scientists)
•Recommended Reading: Helbing, Dirk. Next Civilization: Digital Democracy and Socio-Ecological Finance-How to Avoid Dystopia and Upgrade Society by Digital Means. Springer
Nature, 2021

Read the full article at: coss.ethz.ch