Wikipedia says “Socialism” is best defined as: Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating public or common ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources. As an economic system, socialism is a system of production based on the direct production of use-values by allocating economic inputs (the means of […]
Archive for October, 2010
Technological improvements in Second Life? You bet!
Posted: 29th October 2010 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedTheatrically reprinted from hot chick Gwynneth Llewellyn 🙂 October 28, 2010 – in Homepage, SL Technology by: Gwyneth Llewelyn When Philip “Linden” Rosedale announced, once again, that he’d be leaving Linden Lab and was actively searching for a new CEO, leaving Bob Komin to replace him temporarily, some of my friends saw this as a […]
In short – I think we live in a world of increasing constraints, triggered by a perfect storm of resource depletion (yes, this includes peak oil), income stratification, ‘end-game’ superpower resource consolidation, sickening overpopulation, increasing automation and robotization ‘creep’, environmental and biodiversity collapse, unsustainable complexity, massive widespread corruption, a xenophobia revolution, insurmountable political stupidity and […]
Organizing it in or near Amsterdam, in a somewhat ‘different’ format than 2010? IDEAS * Creating a synergy with maybe other related or unrelated events? – a wider interpretation of the term ‘trans-vision?’ ? * (venus project, transgendered conference, raellians, euro-technocrats, technoprogressives, humanists, cryonics, life extension, 3D printing, GogBot, VR enthusiasts etc. ?) * stay […]
Automation Insurance: Robots Are Replacing Middle Class Jobs
Posted: 28th October 2010 by Khannea Suntzu in Uncategorizedlink Andrew Price, October 13, 2010 * 2:00 pm PDT Every three months, GOOD releases our quarterly magazine, which examines a given theme through our unique lens. Recent editions have covered topics like the impending global water crisis, the future of transportation, and the amazing rebuilding of New Orleans. This quarter’s issue is about work, […]
Morality: Don’t be afraid – science can make us better
Posted: 28th October 2010 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedWe should embrace rather than fear the knowledge science brings as it unravels morality’s muddles, says Fiery Cushman A LUCID dream has three phases. First you experience the dream as reality. Then you recognise it as a product of your mind. Finally, you gain the power of control. Morality is proceeding along similar lines. We […]
How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin Can Help Cure Aging
Posted: 27th October 2010 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedReprinted from here: Aubrey de Grey doesn’t care if you live forever. He just wants you not to get sick. It’s not exactly an easy-to-grok distinction, but that doesn’t stop the British gerontologist from trying. In recent years, de Grey has emerged as the most recognizable, outspoken and controversial cheerleader for regenerative medicine. In 2003, […]
This event is a discussion in advance of Bryce’s (11:00) discussion of the formation of Megacities. Please avoid coming to conclusions – just take away conclusions from the RvB format and port them to Bryce’s event. Question 1 > Is the formation of megacities destined to lead either to dystopia, will it lead us to […]
Dear citizen, please report to termination room 101
Posted: 7th October 2010 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedThis is a hypothesis. This isn’t true by necessity. It could be. Consider if it were all true. All this is also quite cynical, and more than a bit disjointled. But bear with me. Tens of thousands of years ago, humanity lived in extended families at first not too dissimilar from current homo sapiens. All […]