10.25.2010

peeling back the layers

Current Mood: cooped up

Found some articles about the future that I found thought provoking. I will share them here:

5 reasons the future will be ruled by b.s.
never really considered the implications of losing so much physical media infrastructure

A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years
I found this oddly comforting? not despite the pessimism, but almost because of it

5 creepy ways animal societies are organizing
I've been saying this for a long time now, the orcas are getting smarter - soon it will be less safe to go in the water

2 comments:

  1. Fun post, thanks for making my morning :]. I envision a future of killer crows riding killer whiles into coastal battles with chimpanzees.

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  2. The only real flaw of the BS article is that it kind of assumes that everything is in a post-scarcity economy, not just economic work. Once someone figures out how to make matter replicators, then we're screwed.

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