Ray Kurzweil’s Double-Edged Absurdity
Technology isn’t a doubled-edged sword. At worst it is a 99% good sword and tiny 1% bad sword. Doubled-edged implies a 50/50 harm/goodness.
Category: Utopia
Understanding Scarcity and Post-Scarcity
It’s frustrating when people insist we are already living in a Post-Scarcity civilization.
Video Friday: Transhumanism and Christianity – N.T. Wright, Peter Thiel, and Ross Douthat
New testament scholar and retired bishop N.T. Wright, billionaire Peter Thiel, and moderator Ross Douthat share a discussion of hope, technology, politics, and theology at the Veritas Forum.
Transhuman Visions #5: Global Existential Risks & Radical Futures (June 14 Piedmont, SF Bay Area, California)
Apocalypse? or Transcendence? Utopia? or Dystopia? Is Human Destiny an Immortal Paradise? or Miserable Extinction via a Bang, or a Whimper?
Video Friday: David Pearce on H.G. Wells’ Utopia
Intuitively, one might indeed suppose that lifelong bliss would make us weak. Contrast, for instance, the Eloi with the Morlocks in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. In practice, the opposite is true. “That which does not crush me makes me...