Donald Trump’s plan for the second term he is seeking…
"But so I think, I think it would be, I think it would be very, very, I think we'd have a very, very solid, we would continue what we're doing,…
The source of value and meaning
Traditional societies postulated a religion or other forms of absolutism (king, dictator, etc.) as the source of meaning. Liberalism postulated the well-being of the individual as the source of value.…
Know yourself better than the algorithms know you!
We are entering a world where manipulation of the self can reach un-imagined intensity. Political manipulation (Hitler-Germany; Trump-USA) or commercial manipulation (advertising) is not new at all. But it was…
Immortality
Immortality will unlikely mean we simply live longer and get older. Long, or ultimately immortal, life is likely to be qualitatively different from life as we know it today. Probably,…
A New Class Society
We may be witnessing the beginnings of a new class society divided into one class of those who enhance their capabilities through new technologies in bionics or informatics and control…
Britain has exported its political mess to Germany
https://www.ft.com/content/6fc9a548-0f17-11e8-8cb6-b9ccc4c4dbbb