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- Ray Kurzweil Kurzweil’s Singularity
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Category Archives: Future
Building a City on Mars: First, Kill All the Space Lawyers
A life off-planet is not for weaklings. Earth pussies need not apply! Robert Zubrin and Elon Musk have been talking about putting human settlements on Mars for a few decades now. More recently, urban planner Justin Hollander has begun designing … Continue reading
Posted in Elon Musk, Future, Space Future
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An Abundant Expansive Human Future For a Change
We are living in a dark age of pessimism. Everywhere we look we are shown images of holocaust, apocalypse, and ruin. These dark images are what our media shows us, what our educational institutions show us, and what our corrupt … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Future, Government, Groupthink, Optimism
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3 Sacred Rules of Coming Dystopia
“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
A Trendy Left-Wing Child Sacrifice: Transgenderism
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
Posted in Childhood Development, Climate, Energy, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Future, Germany, Green Quagmire, Ideology, Jordan Peterson, Nuclear Power, Postmodernism, psychology, Russia
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A 90 Minute Ultra-Depressing Look at the Future
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
Posted in Energy, Future, geopolitics, Peter Zeihan, Russia
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Trillion Dollar Space Economy Tempts Entrepreneurs
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
Posted in Elon Musk, Future, Space Future
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What if China Controls Outer Space?
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
Posted in Future, Space Future
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After 2020 We Are All Dead
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
What is Positronium, and Where Can I Get Some?
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
Posted in Future, Science
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Wanna Get Away?
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
A Distant World: A Pandemic of Virtuality
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
Posted in Biomedicine, Education, Future, Technology
Tagged coronavirus
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SpaceX Almost Ready for Manned Spaceflights
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
Do 2020 Days Seem to be Getting Longer?
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
Americans Plan to Populate Space with Billions of People
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
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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Dawn of a New Space Age
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
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
Nihilists and Doomers Come Cheap and Stupid; Competent Optimists Have to Know Something
… 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
Posted in expansive future, Future, Nihilism, Optimism, Postmodernism
Tagged leftist idiocy
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Putin Asks “How Long Until They Eat Us?”
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
Posted in Demographics, Future, Robots, Russia, Russian Decline, satire, Sex
Tagged robots, sexbots
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Slay the Monsters, Save the Future: Part I
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
There Is No Future Without Power
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
Posted in coal, Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Future, Germany, Green Quagmire, Groupthink
Tagged Green Corruption, leftist idiocy
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Choose Your Future: Superhuman, or Superfluous Human?
“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
Posted in Demographics, Future, IQ, Islam's Bloody Borders, Machine Intelligence, Megacities, Slums, Superfluous Humans
Tagged IQ, Megaslums
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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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