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Tag Archives: Technology
Book Review: North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society by Jieun Baek
Up until I read this book I hadn’t really put any overly critical thoughts into how North Korea functioned. I had pretty much painted the entire country as a giant prison camp and local life was basically just A Day … Continue reading
Book Review: The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
You remember the capitalism from the 1950s? No? Me neither. I’ve heard loving stories of a by-gone era, but I was born in the eighties and the capitalism I grew up with was the kind that meant morality is only … Continue reading
Book Review: The Fourth Transformation by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel
Words are confusing. Between pleonasms, epizeuxis, and tautology it is a marvel we accomplish as much as we do as a species. This very same confusion must be what led Robert Scoble to diagnose himself as a futurist when, I’m … Continue reading
Book Review: The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson
You want to know how to get me to hate you? Tell me about how shitty science fiction is at predicting the future and then smugly espousing just how much more right you are than anyone else. At that point, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction
Tagged Arrogance on such a scale as to render me incapable of anything but the most base and primal urge to scream, Artificial Intelligence, Emulated Humans, Emulations, futurism, hate, Hubris, nonsense, philsophy, Robin Hanson, Robots, Technology, The Age of Em
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Book Review: Enchanted Objects by David Rose
I’m only just now getting into this whole futurist thing. I’m not happy with the present so I’ve decided that I’m going to consume as many potential futures as I can and drive stoned and screaming into the one … Continue reading
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Tagged Animism, black slabs, business, David Rose, Design, Enchanted Objects, futurism, Human Desire, Internet of Things, Invention, Robots, science, Technology
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