Into the next dimension

Editor's Notes

• #10: Why the twilight zone?
• #16: Twilight Zone aired in mid-centry The atomic age Back when the future looked futuristic Fins on everything and wild SciFi ideas
• #23: The more space we create, the more space we fill. This is a human condition, if we see an empty space, we have the need to fill it. The result is an exponential growth in data.
• #25: We’re creating massive amounts of data and uploading it to YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, the web. We’re uploading things like Video, Wearable sensor data, IoT data, phone data, an infinite list of things that is constantly growing.
• #26: Why do we need data? What can we use it for?
• #27: Let’s go back in time before computers and see an important event where data changed the world.
• #28: This is John Snow, physician He would use data to change the way we look at health, disease and the patterns that caused outbreaks.
• #29: The dominant theory at the time was that foul smelling air spread disease, and death caused by Cholera. John took a simple map walked the city door to door collecting data. For each death from Cholera, he added a dot to his map. Eventually his data showed a trend. The highest collection of dots, seemed to gravitate around a water pump. While a nearby brewery had no cases of the outbreak. Because the people at the brewery drank beer for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They weren’t exposed to the cholera in the water. Keep in mind, this was a time before germ theory. People didn’t understand how illness spread, because we didn’t fully understand what was even making us sick. Even without knowing about the germ that was making people sick, he was able to determine the source of the outbreak and question the “Bad Air” theorists. This would eventually result in clean drinking water and a immediate drop in infant mortality by 50% Later they would determine that the water supply may have been contaminated by a dirty diaper which was washed into a nearby cesspool that was too close to the watersupply.
• #31: http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/30/princeton-harvard-rubella-kenya-phone-study/?ncid=rss_semi Today, we’re trying to predict outbreaks using other data. Harvard researches created a study where they used anonymous phone call records of 15 million users to understand human movement patterns. Researchers plan to use this model for forecasting outbreaks like malaria, rubella, cholera and eventually this will be accessible to the medical community.
• #32: In the future our predictive capabilities could be better. Using other forms of data could give us even more insight into health patterns.
• #39: Remember we have big ideas going on at this time. We are very ambitious. Major life changing events are taking place like nuclear power and space flight. We were doing things that were once science fiction.
• #40: Our ideas surpassed our capabilities to execute.
• #41: Just like nuclear power and space travel, sometimes big ideas need time to catch up.
• #42: But eventually, since fiction becomes reality.
• #45: Science fiction has given us ideas about AI. But were not talking about that kind of AI.
• #46: The fear of AGI should be our focus. Our focus is on just a fraction of the AI universe, Machine Learning. We should dismiss all of our worries though, the human condition still applies. Machine Learning can get creepy really fast. Just not Terminator creepy.
• #47: Everything we touch from the “software giants” google, Microsoft, apple use machine learning in some way. Things as trivial as the windows phone keyboard. Cortana, Siri, Google Now Microsoft Delve