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Autonomous Cars 101, with Brad Templeton
It's no longer car companies innovating the future of the automobile. Driving is becoming a computerized technology, says Brad Templeton, who consulted Google on its autonomous cars.
March 03, 2016
Brad Templeton, Who Started the World’s First Dotcom, on Why Bitcoin Matters
Bitcoin is just one example of how exponential technology is putting the reins of finance in the hands of individuals and small businesses.
May 12, 2015
Brad Templeton: How Bitcoin Disrupts the Finance Industry
Should you invest in Bitcoin? Maybe not, says Brad Templeton, but that doesn't mean the digital currency isn't amazing in and of itself. Templeton explains what Bitcoin achieves and how it will lead to further innovation.
March 09, 2015
Brad Templeton: Searching For a Better Battery
A breakthrough in battery technology would spark a wave of exciting tech innovations.
November 13, 2014
Why the NSA Wants a Quantum Computer, with Brad Templeton
Brad Templeton discusses the vast computational power that a quantum computer could have, provided that someone were to build one.
September 29, 2014
Today's Surveillance Society Is Way Beyond Orwellian
Brad Templeton argues that we're all a part of a surveillance apparatus that would even be beyond the imagination George Orwell.
August 15, 2014
Brad Templeton
Brad Templeton is the Track Chair for Computing at Singularity University, developer of and commentator on self-driving cars, software architect, board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, internet entrepreneur, futurist lecturer, writer and observer of cyberspace issues, hobby photographer, and an artist.
Templeton has been a consultant on Google’s team designing a driverless car and lectures and blogs about the emerging technology of automated transportation. He is also noted as a speaker and writer covering copyright law and political and social issues related to computing and networks. He is a director of the futurist Foresight Nanotech Institute, a think tank and public interest organization focused on transformative future technologies.
Templeton was founder, publisher and software architect at ClariNet Communications Corp., which in the 1990s became the first internet-based business, creating an electronic newspaper. He has been active in the computer network community since 1979, participated in the building and growth of USENET from its earliest days, and in 1987 founded and edited a special USENET conference devoted to comedy.
Templeton has been involved in the development of important pieces of software including VisiCalc, the world’s first computer spreadsheet, and Stuffit for archiving and compressing computer files.
In 1996, ClariNet joined the ACLU and others in opposing the Communications Decency Act, part of the Telecom bill passed during Clinton Administration. The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the plaintiffs and ruled that the Act violated the First Amendment in seeking to impose anti-indecency standards on the internet.
