Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn’t.
But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she’d say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.
People are wired for lots of things. We’re wired for novelty. We’re wired for humor. We’re wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We’re wired for fear.
Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?
I’m a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we’re going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.