Ben Kacyra’s invention
What is a 3D portable laser scanner?
the projected global population in 2050
What is 9 billion?
growing more crops to feed people rather than animals
What is one way that 9 billion people can be fed by 2050?
the number of recipes in Watson’s library
What is 35,000?
three jobs that will be replaced by automation soonest
What are bank tellers, factory workers, bus/truck drivers/welders/cashiers/typists/proofreaders...?
Rosslyn Chapel, The Eastern Qing Tombs, and Mt. Rushmore
What are three historical sites that CyArk mapped?
the percentage of ice-free land used for agriculture
What is 38.6%?
the scientist who identified solutions to solve the world's food dilemma
Who is Jonathan Foley?
the TV quiz show on which Waston defeated human challengers
What is Jeopardy?
the university where McAfee does research
What is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)?
the high-definition record of points on a surface generated by a 3D scanner
What is a point cloud?
the second largest soy producer in the world
What is Brazil?
the percent of the world’s crop calories that feed people directly
What is 55 percent?
to invent recipes that are both delicious and unconventional
What is Waston’s mission?
a fictional stereotypical person who has experienced a sharp decline in the happiness of their marriages, worked less, and gone to jail more
Who is Bill?
to preserve human collective memory
What is CyArk’s mission?
this is a major driver of wildlife extinction
What is agriculture?
the type of countries where the demand for crops will increase most by 2050
What are developing countries?
Watson’s modus operandi
What is cognitive computing?
the unavoidable outcome of the new machine age
What is automation?
one responsibility of UNESCO
What is managing the World Heritage Sites?
clearance of areas of grassland and forest reduce this important aspect of the natural world
What is biodiversity?
the balance between producing more food and sustaining the planet for the future
What is the solution to the food dilemma?
pattern recognition, innovation, creativity, and social intelligence
What are skills that humans have that are still superior to computers?
encourage entrepreneurship and improve infrastructure
How can we reduce the appearance of people like Bill?