Category Archives: Future

3 Sacred Rules of Coming Dystopia

Posted on 5 October, 2022 by alfin2101

“If AI went bad, and 95 percent of humans were killed,” he said, “then the remaining five percent would be extinguished soon after. So despite its uncertainty, it has certain features of very bad risks.” Stuart Armstrong 3 Rules from … Continue reading →

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A Trendy Left-Wing Child Sacrifice: Transgenderism

Posted on 18 June, 2022 by alfin2101

I saw a video the other day featuring an American surgeon bragging that he had performed more than 3,000 double mastectomies on young women who had paid for gender reassignment, individuals confused – one might say encouraged – by those … Continue reading →

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A 90 Minute Ultra-Depressing Look at the Future

Posted on 14 June, 2022 by alfin2101

Some people think that totalitarian dictatorships are the only workable approach to governing in the complex unpredictable world of the future. They look into the future and see an Orwellian “1984” network of dictatorships spanning the globe. In the 90 … Continue reading →

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Trillion Dollar Space Economy Tempts Entrepreneurs

Posted on 13 April, 2022 by alfin2101

Elon Musk’s Starlink internet satellite system is expected to earn SpaceX roughly $5 billion per year by 2030. By comparison, the Internet of Things economy is expected to hit about $10 trillion/yr by 2030 and the Metaverse is expected to … Continue reading →

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What if China Controls Outer Space?

Posted on 28 June, 2021 by alfin2101

It is a race to control the future of humanity. Control of outer space means control of the $trillions upon $trillions worth of resources in the solar system. It means controlling orbiting communications and observation satellites. It means controlling all … Continue reading →

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After 2020 We Are All Dead

Posted on 1 January, 2021 by alfin2101

The following timeline proves that after the year 2020 we are all dead:  “A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged … Continue reading →

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What is Positronium, and Where Can I Get Some?

Posted on 25 August, 2020 by alfin2101

Positronium is an atom without a nucleus, an example of an “exotic” atom. At this time, positronium can only be made inside a particle accelerator. It looks like this: Positronium is composed of an electron, with a negative charge, circling … Continue reading →

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Wanna Get Away?

Posted on 8 May, 2020 by alfin2101

Black Hole Discovered in “Neighborhood” of Solar System In a lockdown world dominated by fear of a cold virus — and only getting worse — thoughtful Earthlings cannot help but wonder whether things might be better on a more rational … Continue reading →

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A Distant World: A Pandemic of Virtuality

Posted on 27 March, 2020 by alfin2101

Our closely packed cities are custom-made for spreading infectious diseases. Masses of people rubbing shoulders on sidewalks, packed like sardines in subways, clustered around conference tables sharing respiratory droplets, shaking dozens of hands a day, making those face to face … Continue reading →

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SpaceX Almost Ready for Manned Spaceflights

Posted on 20 January, 2020 by alfin2101

The Moon is Getting Closer SpaceX is preparing to launch humans into space, following its successful Dragon capsule test yesterday. The first piloted flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut taxi is likely just a few months away, now that a … Continue reading →

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Do 2020 Days Seem to be Getting Longer?

Posted on 2 January, 2020 by alfin2101

The Days are Getting Longer! By approximately 14 nanoseconds . . . A day on Earth is slightly longer this year than last year. It might be hard to notice in just a single year, but the time it takes … Continue reading →

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Americans Plan to Populate Space with Billions of People

Posted on 19 October, 2018 by alfin2101

First you must develop reliable and affordable ways to reach outer space. Then you must find ways to make activity in space profitable. Then you must put skilled and resourceful human beings in space to provide vision and oversight for … Continue reading →

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Can Social Justice Build an Abundant and Expansive Future?

Posted on 18 October, 2018 by alfin2101

Here at Al Fin, we often describe “an abundant and expansive human future,” sometimes referred to as The Next Level. “The Next Level” is a prosperous and open-ended future which will be created by “next level humans.” “Next level humans” … Continue reading →

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Fusion: Far and Near, Slow and Fast

Posted on 9 August, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Dawn of a New Space Age

Posted on 30 May, 2018 by alfin2101

Elon Musk is planning to build a city of one million humans on Mars over the next few decades. Jeff Bezos wants to put between one million and one trillion humans into space to live and work. Robert Zubrin has … Continue reading →

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Cyborgs and Longevity: Simplification and Redundancy

Posted on 11 May, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Is Evil Google Destined for a Mighty Fall?

Posted on 30 April, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Nihilists and Doomers Come Cheap and Stupid; Competent Optimists Have to Know Something

Posted on 12 March, 2018 by alfin2101

… pessimism is self-defeating. It feeds on itself, promoting paralysis and more pessimism. It’s a dead end. __ Source The Human Future Could Be Grand if We Would Let it Be “As time passes, in the main the human condition … Continue reading →

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Putin Asks “How Long Until They Eat Us?”

Posted on 23 September, 2017 by alfin2101

The New Look of the Human Apocalypse Vladimir Putin: “How Long Until They Eat Us?” Vladimir Putin has expressed his fears over artificial intelligence by asking Russia’s largest technology firm how long it will be until smart robots ‘eat us’. … Continue reading →

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Slay the Monsters, Save the Future: Part I

Posted on 9 July, 2017 by alfin2101

Modern societies are dying from within, being choked to death by monstrous institutional entities of their own making. The particular monster of today’s discussion is the university, a corrupt bastion of ideological indoctrination, massive misallocation of funds into the $trillions, … Continue reading →

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There Is No Future Without Power

Posted on 7 April, 2017 by alfin2101

What Does Energy Suicide Look Like? With the best of stated intentions, Germany is cutting its own throat. The unfolding disaster called Energiewende is slowly but surely destroying the foundations of Deutschland’s industrial base, thus destroying Germany’s economy in a … Continue reading →

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Choose Your Future: Superhuman, or Superfluous Human?

Posted on 4 April, 2017 by alfin2101

“Relatively small changes in genes, hormones and neurons,” he points out, “were enough to transform Homo erectus — who could produce nothing more impressive than flint knives — into Homo sapiens, who produce spaceships and computers.” Why should we assume … Continue reading →

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A World Ripe for Disruption

Posted on 25 February, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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Destroying These Threats Before They Destroy the Human Future

Posted on 22 November, 2016 by alfin2101

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 →

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The Gamble

Posted on 6 October, 2016 by alfin2101

You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, Know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table, There’ll be time enough for countin’ when … Continue reading →

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