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• The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all…
• The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be…
• As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new…
• Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'
• Nature stopped being natural decades ago.
• My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.
• It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.
• Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.
• But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we…
• Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
• By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.
• Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
• Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able…
• Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the…
• When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same…
• The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect.…
• Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part…
• To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.
• Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during…
• Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for…

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