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Category Archives: Disruptive Technologies
Is Culture as Malleable As We Feared?
Perhaps not, if this study published yesterday in Nature Human Behaviour is to be believed. Study researchers compared rates of cultural evolution vs. rates of biological evolution. … most culture is subject to “directional and stabilising forces”… – even creating … Continue reading
Making Government Unnecessary III
Large and unwieldy governments such as those of China, the EU, the USA, or Russia, must be dismantled piece by piece. The most salient aspect of large government is bureaucracy. Dismantling bureaucracy — making bureaucracy unnecessary — is a good … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Economics, Government, Making Government Unnecessary, Politics
Tagged Alternative Government
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Can Social Justice Build a Better Bridge?
Social Justice Warriors Infiltrate Engineering Schools Engineering education has been infiltrated by a “phalanx of social justice warriors” who are steadily corrupting the field, according to a Michigan State University professor. “They have sought out the soft underbelly of engineering, … Continue reading
Fusion: Far and Near, Slow and Fast
Politically Correct Fusion by 2060 or Later … ITER’s workers often liken themselves to stonemasons hewing blocks for a cathedral: They may not get to see the fruits of their efforts in their own lifetimes. To the researchers at fusion … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Energy, Future, innovation, Nuclear Fusion
Tagged Fusion Reactor
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Cyborgs and Longevity: Simplification and Redundancy
Simplification, Functionality, and Redundancy Altering man’s bodily functions to meet the requirements of extraterrestrial environments would be more logical than providing an earthly environment for him in space . . . Artifact-organism systems which would extend man’s unconscious, self-regulatory controls … Continue reading
Is Evil Google Destined for a Mighty Fall?
Stormy Seas for Google and Other Giant Corporations It is not only Google that is facing the peril of capitalism’s “creative destruction,” it is every corporation that thinks it has made it into the safe port of the S&P 500. … Continue reading
Maximum Impact: Change the World Part II
Global Change via Disruptive Innovation Since the year 1500, Europe has spawned scientific/technological/industrial revolutions that have generated endless streams of disruptive innovations. Those revolutions were made possible by European tools of global exploration and global conquest. And all of that … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Dysgenics
Tagged Disruptive Change
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A World Badly In Need of a Proper Disruption
First Bitcoin, Then Stocks, Then Oil Prices Fall Recent turbulence on global markets has cast a spell of “fear and trembling” over many financial journalists. The financial media is known for its blatant stupidity, making mistakes such as confusing stock … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Disruptive Technologies, Economics, Groupthink, innovation, Making Government Unnecessary
Tagged innovation
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A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Disruptive Innovation
Brian Wang discusses future disruptive technologies as if the disruptors of the past will also be the disruptors of the future: Technological disruptors like Elon Musk, Google and Amazon will force industries and companies to accelerate or die. Companies will … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Google, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, innovation, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Green Idiocy, Groupthink, leftist idiocy
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Swarm Weapons: Is Your Survival Bunker Well Equipped?
Coming World of Swarming Drone Warfare Is anybody ready for this? Small drones, even in large numbers, tend to be far cheaper than conventional, larger weapon systems… Indeed, most of these systems are based on existing, easily available, and extremely … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, drones, Machine Intelligence, Military, Robots, Self Organisation, Survival Prepping, TEOTWAWKI, Weapons
Tagged drones, survival, Weapons
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A World Ripe for Disruption
The global economy has been in a state of rapid ferment for several decades. Although the US has operated the world’s largest national economy for the past 127 years, some of the world’s other former economic giants are beginning to … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Draining the Swamp, Economics, Future, Genetics and Gene Expression, geopolitics, Peter Zeihan, Politics, Science, Space Future, Technology
Tagged geopolitics
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Making Government Unnecessary II : Disruptive Innovations
Alexei Kudrov, a brilliant and honest Russian, speaking of the potential effects of blockchain technology on governments: “Soon technology will replace many of the functions of government. The technology of block chains can almost completely replace the state bureaucracy. Society … Continue reading
Destroying These Threats Before They Destroy the Human Future
The Three Faces of Challenge Three powerful forces seek to dominate — or conquer — today’s world. Each of the three should be considered deadly enemies to an abundant and expansive human future. The tactics and strategies used to meet … Continue reading
Posted in China, Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Empire, Europe, Future, geopolitics, Government, Groupthink, Human Slavery, Ideology, Idiocracy, innovation, Islam's Bloody Borders, Media
Tagged Disruptive Technologies, geopolitics, propaganda media
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Trump Overcoming Media Bias; US Elections a Big Headache
Donald Trump Ahead of Clinton in Rasmussen Presidential Poll At the close of a week that began with him trailing by seven points, Donald Trump still holds a slight lead over Hillary Clinton in today’s White House Watch survey despite … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Hillary Clinton, innovation, Politics
Tagged Clintons, Infrastructure, Politics
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Why North America is the Focus of Global Innovation
The Anglosphere and Europe are Innovating the World of the Future, with a Strong Assist from East Asia All innovation is not created equal. Higher quality and more disruptive innovations count far more in terms of future global impact than … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Economics, innovation, Peter Zeihan
Tagged Infrastructure, innovation
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Building a Positive Future Instead of Tearing it Down
We have discovered through hard trial and error that a society without a sense of larger purpose drifts into nihilism and despair. __ ColonyofCommodus To build a future, people must have a sense of purpose — “a larger purpose” than … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Economics, expansive future, Future, Media, Philosophy, Propaganda, Space Future
Tagged Elon Musk, Philosophy, Space
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How Large a Population Is Required to Build an Advanced Civilisation?
“The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.” — Albert Einstein Fertility is high … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, IQ, Rebuilding Civilisation
Tagged Rebooting Civilisation
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Disruptive New Paradigms in Space Launch and Nuclear Power
A New Paradigm for Nuclear Technology Development What’s different this time is that there is a profound shift taking place from government-led, and funded, nuclear R&D to private sector-led efforts by people with strong entrepreneurial goals… These developers want to … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, innovation, Nuclear Power, Space Future
Tagged Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Energy, Space
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Power to Coerce, Power to Disrupt
Hackers Hit Banks, Power Grids, Air Traffic Control Systems Anything that is connected to the net is susceptible to being hacked — for purposes of espionage, theft, vandalism, or sheer deadly destruction. Global Financial Network “SWIFT” Regularly Robbed of $Millions … Continue reading
Posted in China, Crime, Disruptive Technologies, Economics, Electrical Power Grid, Russia, Weapons
Tagged china bubble, cyberwar
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Things to Come
You Know How Some Days It’s Hard to Choose Between Kale and Cannabis? Now you don’t have to chooose! In a tour-de-force destined to change the world, amateur scientists have succeeded in creating a hybrid cross of the nutritional green … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Future, Human Brain, Medicine, Practical Medicine
Tagged Disruptive Technologies
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Open Access Science in the West: Sign of Openness, Roots of Innovation
Open access journals — such as the Public Library of Science, the “Frontiers in” journals, journals published via Biomed Central, and many more illustrated above, highlight the openness of information of all types in the west. More Open access journals … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Disruptive Technologies, geopolitics, innovation
Tagged geopolitics
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Chinese Looking for “Secrets of the Jews”
Why Are Jews so Successful in Science, Maths, and Business? In the sciences, Jews have won 22 percent of all the Nobel Prizes ever awarded – 29 percent of the prizes since 1950, after the Holocaust destroyed a third of … Continue reading
Posted in Brain Drain, China, Disruptive Technologies, Russian Decline
Tagged Brain Drain, China reality, Russian brain drain, Russian Collapse
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An Uber Style of Medical Care for the US?
The Tech Revolution is Sweeping Over Much of US Society — Why Not Health Care? Health care-market distortions have considerably worsened since Kenneth Arrow famously described them in 1963; but in other industries less dominated by misguided government intervention, similar … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Disruptive Technologies, Future, Human Brain, Knowledge, Medicine, Practical Medicine, Technology
Tagged Medicine
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Why Won’t the Bitch Just Die?
Western Civilisation Shows a Marked Reticence to Roll Over and Die Doomers are a dime a dozen. According to such doomers as Ehrlich, Orlov, Kuntsler, Cobb, etc. the nations of the west should have dropped dead long ago from one … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Doom, Government, Peter Zeihan
Tagged doom, innovation
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Heaven Is A Long-Shot Gamble Part II
According to the KISS study, the cost for a future mission to identify and return a 500 ton asteroid to low earth orbit is ~$2.6 billion USD, ignoring the costs to develop the infrastructure necessary to process the materials in … Continue reading
Posted in Asteroids, Disruptive Technologies, Future, Space Future, Technology
Tagged economics, Space
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