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Viewing the virtual-reality film “Collisions” at a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 2016. (World Economic Forum, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
The Great Pretext…for Dystopia
In their World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret bring us...
• November 24, 2020
• 2,900 Words • 122 Comments • Reply
By titling their recently published World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, the authors link the pandemic to their futuristic proposals in ways bound to be met with a chorus of “Aha!”s. In the current atmosphere of confusion and distrust, the glee with which economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret greet the pandemic as... Read More
Book Review: Andrew Yang - the War on Normal People
~7% Chance This Guy Will Be President Come 2020. Let's Review His Book.
• April 26, 2019
• 5,500 Words • 346 Comments
Andrew Yang - THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE (2018) Rating: 5/5 You can access all of my latest book, film, and video game reviews at this link, as well as an ordered, categorized list of all my book reviews and ratings here: I don't normally read the vapid hagiographies that characterize most political manifestoes. The... Read More
Russia's Technological Backwardness
• March 13, 2018
• 5,100 Words • 707 Comments
In his September 1, 2017 speech to incoming Russian schoolchildren, Putin made waves by proclaiming that whoever becomes the leader in AI will become "ruler of the world." This provoked a variety of reactions, from Elon Musk commenting on his belief that competition for AI superiority will be the likeliest cause of World War III... Read More
New York Times Replaced by Black Box. World Relieved
• January 26, 2017
• 1,100 Words • 30 Comments • Reply
I think things have looked bleak for the angels at least since Milton published Paradise Lost, but things are now beginning to look bleak for grumpy columnists, and that is serious. Angels can look out for themselves. The threat to all that is good and right in the world (consisting in large part of grumpy... Read More
China Overtakes US in Scientific Articles, Robots, Supercomputers
• August 29, 2016
• 1,600 Words • 293 Comments
Nothing illustrates China's meteoric rise as some well chosen numbers. By the end of the 1990s, China had come to dominate the mainstays of geopolitical power in the 20th century - coal and steel production. As a consequence, it leapt to the top of the Compositive Index of National Capability, which uses military expenditure, military... Read More
Ready: New Rossum's Universal Robots: Toward a Most Minimal Wage
• July 7, 2016
• 1,200 Words • 117 Comments • Reply
Being as I am a curmudgeon, and delight in human folly and thoughts of huge asteroids, tsunamis, incurable plagues, continent-shattering volcanoes, and the Hillary administration, I follow the advance of robots with hope. They may finally end civilization as we know it. Currently they spread like kudzu. Herewith a few notes from my favorite technical... Read More
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