At which point you may ask: is it an independent country, or is it a data colony? Harari painted the grim picture of a future only a few decades away, in which big tech, or governments, "or whoever", could know about everybody's medical conditions and personal life histories.
In other words, they could know us better than we know ourselves. That's even before you throw in emerging technologies like neural interfaces that could allow real-life mind reading. Right now, he said, the race is on between state surveillance in China and surveillance capitalism in the US. Note the difference: in the US, brain-hacking technology is a thing of Silicon Valley, not of Washington, according to Hariri.
That is not to say that big tech and politicians don't mingle. The technology arms race will shape the future of humanity, he added — but despite his concerns with the growing surveillance enabled by data, he concluded with a positive note.
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We only considered countries which had more than 30 players as part of the sample. The full set of data is available here for those wishing to look at more detail or quote from the source. Congratulations to the high fliers and commiserations to those who found themselves at the bottom of the tables. Tags: facebook , playfish , social games , who has the biggest brain. This entry was posted on October 23, at pm and is filed under Games , Just for fun.
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That would be mortal fun to see those ranks, my dream of long ago. Also 3 of the top 5 countries are from the Balkans region. The picture above does not match the overall worldwide scores….
This is cool, but i think is not fair that there are so many people cheating, please check world records, there are some ridiculous scores there. The country statistics are quite interesting. I would really like to see some distribution information as well, to see the scores at different percentiles. Also interesting would be the correlation between the number of games played and the score…. Your correspondent has a relatively weak 2,, while the world's top player, Uri Zoran, weighs in at a massive 4, Each game takes just one minute, so speed and finger dexterity are important.
Ameen Tayebi, a one-time Google intern who once held San Francisco's highest score with , said of the game's global elite, "I don't know how they could go any faster than I do. I'm going as fast as seems humanly possible.
We interviewed Zoran, a year old Israeli, via Facebook to get his take on the spoils of mental athletic jockdom. Wired : Do you believe your high ranking on the Facebook brain app is indicative of your brain power?
Uri Zoran : I do believe that my high ranking has a lot to do with my brain power, but also acknowledge that there are few other parameters… [such as] practice and the ability to control the mouse at high speed. Wired : Have you done any special training?
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