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I know James, I am predictable The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. December 5, 2010 – A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more…
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*smiles* A few years ago I saw ‘Things To Come’, HG Wells’ 1930s science fiction epic. The story made a bold prediction: That by 2036 humankind’s scientific knowledge and technological capability would be so advanced, we would attempt to orbit the Moon. From our post-Apollo perspective, this vision comes across as laughably conservative. But even…
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The United States, which is currently engaged in a complete war against some weird guy with a website, is going to host “World Press Freedom Day,” the Department of State announced today. They’re all especially excited about protecting the flow of digital news, which is why Washington is “concerned about the determination of some governments…
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Last week, I heard a girl on the radio, who was talking about how she would have no problem doing a threesome with another girl, if her boyfriend desired it. The girl’s carefree attitude, revealing to hundreds of thousands of strangers that she was open to a bisexual experience reminded me of a certain 2005…
Why We Are All Transgender “Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you for my name’s sake, for great is your reward in heaven.” Every human being has an essential erotic nature that we commonly identify as “transgender”. This is a completely natural state…
PREMISE Twensty years. The next twenty years may see several of a list of disruptive technologies emerge. In the next series of Red versus Blue events we’ll be doing these things and asking these questions – what are these “disruptive technologies?” what means ‘disruptive’ ? Should society prepare ? what kind of ways exist to…
Written By: Michael Vassar Date Published: November 22, 2010 1. DNA sequencing: Over the next decade gene sequencing prices are expected to continue to decline by over 50% per year. That means that by the end of the decade we should probably know the genomes of a large fraction of the developed world population; of…
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Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice – now for humans Harvard scientists were surprised that they saw a dramatic reversal, not just a slowing down, of the ageing in mice. Now they believe they might be able to regenerate human organs In mice, reactivating the enzyme telomerase led to the repair of damaged…
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Taken from here the perceptions of a breathtakingly fascinating interviewer interviewing someone of unmitigated historical importance. A short aesthetic exploration into longevity and its implications on our emotional lives- including a brief interview with Aubrey De Grey “As for me, she said, I seek not the Lover that completes me, that was good for when…
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Premise: This Red versus Blue debate is the first of several delineating what is almost impossible to delineate. The basic premise is somewhat of a counterposition to that of Cosmism. I intend to argue Cosmicism, and ask the question whether or not the universe is a horrific place and the odds are stacked against us…
By Extropia Dasilva ALT! WHO GOES THERE? ONE: DOLLS AND ACTIVES. In ‘Virals And Definitives In SL’ and other essays, I discussed the concept of the ‘Pairson’: A character in an online world that is controlled by two or more people in RL. … Part One TWO: THE BIRTH OF THE SOUL AND THE DEATH…
Fed 600 Billion The Fed is back to printing money. To the tune of 600 Billion at the rate of 75 Billion a month. What’s that? You thought that stimulus required a vote? Me too. If it’s not obvious to anyone else, the US Economy is being held together with tape. We don’t even have…
got this from the shortsighted nitwits at Financial Times October 16, 2010 The Financial Time Bomb of Longer Lives By NATASHA SINGER FIRST the good news: We’re living longer, healthier lives than ever before. We’re already so used to the idea of greater longevity, in fact, that it may seem ho-hum to learn that boys…
… I am probably going to die, but if I am not going to die the alternative may be worse in terms of how much it will hurt, … There will always be a million people better than anything I try to do my best at, … I must never ever try and own human…
Taken from here By IAN MORRIS, PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS AND HISTORY AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY Last updated at 1:59 AM on 31st October 2010 Last week, historian Ian Morris revealed how, at the end of the last Ice Age, a simple accident of geography gave the West the advantages that led to it dominating the world…
Have a close look here; What is a Polytopia? Polytopia (1) an endlessly open (trans) culture of unique and diverse states of mind 1.1- ‘endlessly open’ reflects the proposition that there are no end goals, no end results, in short, no end but infinity. 1.2- culture and not society, culture has no borders, no nationality,…
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Middle East oil source of many U.S. problems The cost of the United States military defending and procuring crude oil is nearly impossible to calculate. Begin with the fact that our $500 billion-plus military budget equals the military budgets of the rest of the world combined, and the Pentagon can’t account for trillions of dollars….
Conservative adj. 1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. 2. Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit. 3. Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate. 4. (a) Of or relating to the political philosophy of conservatism; (b) Belonging to a conservative party, group, or movement. 5. Conservative Of or belonging to the…
Because that is was this bastard really says. The true face of the goodguys. Sorry padre, your career is over now. ITALIAN rationalists are demanding the resignation of the country’s Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini over incendiary remarks he made in an article he wrote for the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano. Frattini, according to atheist Marc…
Transhumanism might be evil. This is a grave concern. The idea is that the implementation of exponentially advancing technologies might be evil. Some here seem to argue this idea, but I am seeing it argued elsewhere as well. Thinking about it this makes sense. Transhumanism might be misconstrued as an ideological movement, or at the…
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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…
Mind you – I wouldn’t do this. Yet. But others might. However what I ask you – if you read this article, and you disagree (which many will) I will ask you to come up with solutions in the comments that fit my paradigm. Vehement denouncement won’t do anyone any good. I live in the…
Theatrically 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…
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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…