as well. we might simulate potential alien civilizations that we haven't encountered. maybe that would be very important for gaining information about how alien civilizations would behave in case we did run into them. think of all the reasons why humans have tried to create, say fictional ...
“If, after the inauguration, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I’d quit. But that’s not going to happen. You’re going to see new faces, new ideas. The government is going to be run ...
but generally less desired place where patients weren’t quite as sick and pay wasn’t quite as good. I asked him one day why he’d done this. He told me that “every day, I would drive past this hospital
John Vervaeke describes a near-extinction moment in the Upper Paleolithic period that gave birth to modern humans. Deep freezes and volcanic erruptions created environmental degradation of such a scale that humanity was vastly reduced, toiling away in little pockets just to survive. Our re-emergence...
Failed banks, quantified self and addiction to the infinite scroll. An interview with Michael Mandiberg WRead More There are many reasons why i wanted to interview Mandiberg. He is an artist whose work i’ve admired for years, the co-founder of the brilliant Art+Feminism Wikipedia Editathon an...
Malthus failed horribly in at least two ways. First that the then common practice of having large families would continue. That dynamic changes once a society moves from agricultural to technology. Kids change from necessary farm help to a financial burden. And he failed utterly to predict the ...
We humans are in trouble. We have let loose a new evolutionary process that we don’t understand and can’t control. The latest leaps forward in artificial intelligence (AI) are rightly causing anxiety. Yet people are responding as though AI is just one more scary new technology, like elect...
However, humans have found their way, as usual, to go around religious and natural prohibitions: ancient Egyptians’ royalty encouraged the practice, so that it became a sort of “privilege of the gods” (pharaohs were “gods on earth”). Christianity also knows of glamorous examples (among ...
Us humans find it almost impossible to break a habit and cultivate a new one. One could crack a joke at the expense of Bing users or those still using Internet Explorer but simplicity and habits are hard to change. So, we won’t tell you to kill your Binance account, ...
‘Cinema is not to change the world;but to act as a record of time’ Kerala Literature Festival 2025: A celebration of literary brilliance begins KLF 25 opens with rich tribute to MT Air India Express increases free check in baggage allowance KLF 2025 to host 6 Booker celebrities, 2 Nobel...