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London Is Only The 6th Most-Surveilled City In The World
London Is Only The 6th Most-Surveilled City In The World According to a study by research website Comparitech, eight out of the ten most surveilled cities in the world are in China, and as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, the country that has been making headlines for its generous use of surveillance technology is featured heavily throughout the […]
Politics and Algorithms
Politics and Algorithms It’s a development that has long been evident in continental Europe, and that has now arrived on the shores of the US and UK. It is the somewhat slow but very certain dissolution of long-existing political parties, organizations and groups. That’s what I was seeing during the Robert Mueller clown horror show […]
Technological Dependence And The End Of Freedom
Technological Dependence And The End Of Freedom Technology can be dazzling but also debilitating to real human progress, and when I say “progress” I do not mean advancements in the world of machines but advancements in the world of people, and one does not necessarily lead to the other. First, I fully recognize that whenever […]
Technotyranny: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State
Technotyranny: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State “There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick Red pill or blue pill? You decide. Twenty years after the Wachowskis’ iconic 1999 film, The Matrix, introduced […]
The Next Major Shift in Society
The Next Major Shift in Society QUESTION: Do you see this new age of the internet destroying jobs that result in a Great Depression as you have illustrated with the advancement of the combustion engine in altering the agricultural economy as we move into the future? What is the future for our children? Thank you KL […]
Billions Dead: 5 Times Russia and America Nearly Started a Nuclear War
Billions Dead: 5 Times Russia and America Nearly Started a Nuclear War Some history that should never be forgotten. Each crisis was eventually resolved in favor of peace, but in every case both sides relied on gambles, and survived as much by luck as by strategy. An international “crisis” is the anxious space between peace and war. It is […]
Let’s get ‘creaturely’: A new worldview can help us face ecological crises
Let’s get ‘creaturely’: A new worldview can help us face ecological crises No farmer has ever gone out to the barn to start the day and discovered that a baby tractor had been born overnight. For farmers who work with horses, the birth of a foal would not be surprising. That observation may seem silly, […]
Breakthrough Energy Ventures: Our Malevolent Benefactors and Their Master Plan for Humanity
Breakthrough Energy Ventures: Our Malevolent Benefactors and Their Master Plan for Humanity The men who pull all the media, political and business levers in much of the world now want to pretend to save us from ourselves by backing GMOs and other questionable technologies. ABusiness Insider story by author Aria Bendix caught my eye this […]
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state?
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state? Predictive analytics enabling law enforcement to identify “high-risk” areas has highlighted ethical and legal quandaries Science fiction has long speculated on the danger of a dystopian future and machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI). But with the advent of big data, we no longer need to speculate: the future […]
The Analog Tipping Points Lurking in Tech’s Future
The Analog Tipping Points Lurking in Tech’s Future This is a guest post from John Andrews. John is 30-year plus veteran of the banking industry. For the last 23 years he was the Head of Investor Relations for Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. He makes the point that explosive tech growth, […]
You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes
You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes So off went the Emperor in procession under his splendid canopy. Everyone in the streets and the windows said, “Oh, how fine are the Emperor’s new clothes! Don’t they fit him to perfection? […]
Technology: Distracting, Disturbing, Deceiving & Deluding Ourselves to Death
TECHNOLOGY: DISTRACTING, DISTURBING, DECEIVING & DELUDING OURSELVES TO DEATH “What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his […]
The News About Fake News Is Fake
The News About Fake News Is Fake Johannes Vermeer Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window 1657-59 In the last few days I was looking around for stories that could illustrate what fake news actually is, and I had a nice collection, but then last night Robert Mueller of all people clarified what exactly fake […]
Democracy, truth, fallibilism, and the tech overlords
Democracy, truth, fallibilism, and the tech overlords In a recent conversation a friend of mine offered the following: “There would be no need to vote on anything if we knew the truth.” That statement has such profound implications that I will only scratch the surface of it here. First, democracy presupposes that none of us […]
Fusion is the only possible way to replace fossil fuels. So how is ITER doing?
Fusion is the only possible way to replace fossil fuels. So how is ITER doing? Preface. This website, and my book, When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the future of transportation, and Martin Hoffert, et al in the 2002 Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet, Science. Vol 298 argue […]
