Home » Posts tagged 'technology' (Page 10)
Tag Archives: technology
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge […]
Driverless Cars and the Cult of Technology
Driverless Cars and the Cult of Technology We constantly hear that driverless cars are just around the corner. We’re told they will revolutionize transportation and enable us to continue using our car-based transport and land-use system. If they’re made by Tesla, they’ll be powered by magic, solar-powered, super efficient batteries and we’ll all be able […]
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet: Reason Roundup
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet: Reason Roundup Plus: Testing telemedicine abortion and 3D printed guns. Douglas Christian/ZUMA Press/Newscom All your base are belong to us. A leaked memo circulating among Senate Democrats contains a host of bonkers authoritarian proposals for regulating digital platforms, purportedly as a way to get […]
U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble
U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble Within Google, knowledge about Dragonfly has been restricted to just a few hundred members of the internet giant’s 88,000-strong workforce, said a source with knowledge of the project. The source spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity, as they […]
An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . .
An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . . Photo source NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 Humanity’s and the Earth’s prospects have been dimming for the past year and a half. But they’ve been bleak for a long time; as little […]
Can Sophisticated Technology Prevent Severe Economic Slump?
CAN SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY PREVENT SEVERE ECONOMIC SLUMP? Most economic commentators are likely to agree that in relation to the period prior to the Great Depression, the present world is many times more sophisticated in terms of advanced technological knowledge. It is then tempted to suggest that with the present advanced technology we are in a […]
Axiom of Uncertainty
Axiom of Uncertainty It’s simple. Given that there might well be an absolute nature/structure of the universe and our perhaps fundamentally limited cognitive position/abilities within it can we be certain that we can be sure about the true nature of anything? Can there be fundamental forces, matter, and material relationships of which we will never know? While unanswerable in principle, the mere possibility of […]
Ecology: The Keystone Science
Ecology: The Keystone Science Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters | CC BY 2.0 A missing piece from most critiques of modern capitalism revolves around the misunderstanding of ecology. To put it bluntly, there will be no squaring the circle of mass industrial civilization and an inhabitable Earth. There is no way for […]
The Police State Takes A Giant Leap Towards Pre-Crime
The Police State Takes A Giant Leap Towards Pre-Crime If you think we still have privacy rights or a 4th Amendment you are living in the past. Technology has moved past our individual rights and technology is now determining what day and time a crime will be committed in your neighborhood and produce a list […]
Energy Efficiency and Technology Squeeze the Carbon Bubble
Energy Efficiency and Technology Squeeze the Carbon Bubble The carbon bubble will burst with or without government action, according to a new study. That will hurt people who invest in fossil fuels. As energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies improve and prices drop, global demand for fossil fuels will decline, “stranding” new fossil fuel ventures — […]
White House Accuses China Of “Persistent Economic Espionage And Aggression”
White House Accuses China Of “Persistent Economic Espionage And Aggression” In what Bloomberg billed as the White House’s “latest salvo in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies”, the Trump administration released a 35-page report late last night fleshing out its national security concerns emanating from China’s theft of intellectual properties as well […]
What’s Wrong with the Economy: 9 Toxic Dynamics
What’s Wrong with the Economy: 9 Toxic Dynamics These nine dynamics are mutually reinforcing. Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all sense something is deeply, systemically wrong with the U.S. economy. These nine structural dynamics generate secondary dynamics, all of which are toxic to social mobility, sustainable […]
Breaking the chains of delusion -Technological progress mythologies and the pitfalls of digitalization
Breaking the chains of delusion -Technological progress mythologies and the pitfalls of digitalization When it comes to technological development, I often hear the words: What can be done will be done – sooner or later. Many people think that technological development follows a path directed by quasi-natural laws that head into one and only one direction […]
Our Economy Is Failing Our Society
Our Economy Is Failing Our Society If we want to extend the opportunities for positive social roles to everyone, we have to change the way money is created and distributed in our economy. One of the most unrecognized dynamics of our era is the structural dependence of our society on our economy. One set of […]
