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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Disturbing news from Japan – decline of the middle class
An article laid out a disturbing trend in Japan.Main point: "...income has declined across the income percentiles, and the share of low-income households has risen as those of middle- and high-income groups shrink."Supporting points:"...the share of low-income...
Apps running on the network
Here's an article about one company's efforts to bypass the tech oligarchs.Main point: “We’re taking the internet back to a time when it provided this open environment for creativity and economic growth, a free market where services could connect on equal terms,”...
Transhumanists: Superhuman Powers And Life Extension Technologies Will Allow Us To Become Like God
Transhumanists: Superhuman Powers And Life Extension Technologies Will Allow Us To Become Like God: The real inequality where the haves benefit, and the rest of us not so much?
» Scientists: Robots Could be Programmed to Kill You ‘For the Greater Good’
» Scientists: Robots Could be Programmed to Kill You ‘For the Greater Good’ Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! Uber-utilitarian.
» Scientists: Robots Could be Programmed to Kill You ‘For the Greater Good’
» Scientists: Robots Could be Programmed to Kill You ‘For the Greater Good’ Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! Uber-utilitarian.
Sure to raise someone’s hackles
A review of a book on the shortfalls of our approach to economic development: “In the realm of benevolent intervention, the standing rule has always been that you can walk into a poor country and, with enough experts, supplies and bureaucratic correctives, make it...
Sure to raise someone’s hackles
A review of a book on the shortfalls of our approach to economic development: “In the realm of benevolent intervention, the standing rule has always been that you can walk into a poor country and, with enough experts, supplies and bureaucratic correctives, make it...
If only our crime labs were half as effective
A risk of how forensic science is portrayed on TV is the effect on juries that might accept testimony uncritically.