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Opinions in science, science fiction, and fantasy.
Are We Already Dominated by Artificial Intelligence? — The Future is Predictable
We were all so wrong thinking about the future, we are wrong assuming that, Artificial Intelligence will dominate the future. We missed it, and fail to see our dependency on the machines.
By Muangakili4 years ago in Futurism
Elites Added Layers of Complexity! Now, They are Unable to Manage It.
Complexity is killing us. Right from the laws that govern us to the institutions which enforce them and the courts who adjudicate on them, our world has become so complex that it is virtually (literally as well as figuratively) impossible to comprehend and manage the mindboggling complexity that is so endemic in our lives. What more, even those who claim to understand complexity and have a grip on how to manage it flounder when confronted with solving problems that arise from complex systems.
By Rammohan Susarla4 years ago in Futurism
Try your luck with vision boards
Since I have been proficient at many other forms of mystical pursuits in the past, I decided to try vision boards. I had heard about it multiple times which at this point, having realized that repetition felt like intuitive nudging, that I should give it a whirl.
By Missy Conley5 years ago in Futurism
Burning Bright/Come Away, Human Child
(i) Burning Bright I dreamed about the tiger tonight--approach of handlers and veterinary physicians to the great cat into whom, across species, the invisible worldwide celebrity had perilously entered. Some of those managing the beast were young enough to have partied at close range on sun-spackled beaches with mammals, on the whole, more lethal than this cat they observed at a respectful distance, or tranquilized first before nearer approach. Some were old enough to fear far more the infinitesimal creature within, that may make it under sedation a greater threat than it would be awake, charging, thoroughly pissed as perhaps it has every right to be: you nearly eliminate my kind in their natural state but save specimens of us for show; granted, you care for us in these sheltered unnatural places until suddenly we come in contact with a danger unknown in the wild (where with all due modesty, we were for long ages the principal danger, a crown we’ve ceded a good few of your generations now); you lift us for our safety out of a habitat you’ve made inhospitable for us and our prey, and what happens? an invisible enemy, bred by the same genius that makes civilization, war, prisons, discotheques, casinos, air conditioning, jet exhaust, books and films and music and such, bunker style luxury condos and zoos, slips without being seen through these sheltering bars as easily as it leaps across borders from nation to nation, and lays me low. Your safety is another name for danger.
By Martin Heavisides5 years ago in Futurism
The Bad Idea That Is Time Travel
I think you can point to several moments in your life you wish you could relive or redo. A detail or fact you wish you could see again, correct, or undo in the past, to manipulate the present toward a more self-serving result. Or you're curious about what lies ahead, you go forward in time set on by a question of how your life or society at large will turn out. Given the opportunity to view our lives as well as world history from an outside perspective, knowing you were capable of jumping into any point in time, breathing the era's air, eating their food, or drinking whatever was put in front of you, the temptation to tamper with events would be too hard to ignore, and you'd pay a terrible price for leaving all the things you're familiar with. Perhaps every work of fiction that's covered the theory of time travel tells a certain truth in that messing with nature, always has a generally negative consequence more than just the individual.
By Benjamin Alexander House5 years ago in Futurism
