For thousands of years the world was big. A man’s only concern was his family, his community, and his nation. Even at the national level, news took days to arrive. It took a full day for Pheidippides to run from Athens to Sparta in order to inform the Spartans that Persian forces were invading. Even [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
Straight to Hell
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.– Arthur Schopenhauer (Why) Everything is going to hell. These days we have armies of “experts” investigating the causes of our misbelonging. Of our unexpected freight and intangible unease. The face of yet another famous sociologist, media-specialist or [...]
The End of the World Anthem
After a long, intensive, exhausting survey of history, politics and philosophy, I have finally figured out how civilization will end. I could have used a wide array of quotes to pump this article up, but I have decided not to, so that this message could be as simple, concise and accessible as possible. Everywhere around [...]
Eugenics
In stable countries, eugenics is the tool which can be used to change the general traits and abilities of the general population. It does this by selecting desirable individuals to become a majority rather than a minority. It’s a fact that some people will always be better than others, in varying qualities, and if we [...]
Artificial life attacks!
Today it has just been announced that artificial life has been created and has been reproduced more than a billion times, sparking moral controversy: Scientists have created artificial life. In a world-first, Craig Venter, a maverick biologist and billionaire entrepreneur, has made a designer microbe from scratch. The creation of the new life form, nicknamed [...]
Obama’s web team erasing history
Obama’s team have removed a whole load of pages from whitehouse.gov without bothering to redirect them to newer versions of the pages. This is extremely bad practice, as those pages will just disappear from the search engines entirely, and the new versions will probably never get to the same position that they were under Bush. [...]
“Information wants to be free”
That word, free. It means nothing, but everything. You’re “free,” politically, but if your fellow citizens do something stupid, you’ll die in a mushroom cloud with them. TV is “free” if you like watching commercials a third of the time. Air is “free” but it may be toxic. And then along comes some glib hacker-type [...]
"Hackers" for hire
Hackers have accessed Brazilian government computer systems and helped 107 companies obtain permits that enabled them to fell over £546million ($833m) worth of timbre illegally. In what has come as a shocking revelation, it appears that hi-tech hackers have played an instrumental role in the illegal deforestation of 1.7million cubic meters of the Amazon rain [...]
Obama wants government to spy on you
The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants. In a filing in San Francisco federal court, President [...]
