Intro LO: Below, please find a quite scary Independent Premium article. While reading it, the first thing that came to my mind was the 2002 Sci-Fi film Minority Report, which is rated at #7.6 on IMDb. Technology has - almost - turned science fiction into reality The main difference is that Minority Report is about reading our intentions - besides our words....
A recent article in Nautilus science magazine argued this: "Science fiction relies on a particular vision of tech when crafting a new, upcoming world. But technology alone doesn't remake our society. Predicting the future requires us to consider the more potent impact of a changing culture." I prepared a diagram, showing the 7 Belief systems in our history, the...
Op 15 januari 2025 waarschuwde de vertrekkende Amerikaanse president zijn landgenoten voor de "machtsconcentratie bij ultrarijken" (VRT), en "een tech-industrieel complex" (Trouw). Zijn woorden houden mij al langere tijd bezig: is deze verwachting een dystopische perceptie, of een realiteit?? "Ik wil het land waarschuwen voor enkele zaken die mij grote zorgen...
Apparently, collective guilt is an issue for Germans and for Russians (eg, German collective guilt, Russians And Collective Guilt). However, it might only be a media and/or a political topic (eg, DW-2019, Hungarian Conservative-2022). At least, guilt is an emotion rather than ratio. How about individual and/or collective victim roles?? “Victim mentality is...
To me, the above is without question. It was even written on the back of one of my neckties. My title is also a slogan of Logan Roy, a fictional character in HBO's tv series Succession (2018-2023). For others, it's not. Recently, I noticed this quote by Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale: “You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your...
A recent Aeon-Psyche article stated that "language both enables and interferes with our grasp of reality". Indeed, our language enables our communication and/but will also result in confusion (eg, meaning, translation). Actually, everything that enables will also interfere (eg, life vs death). This phenomenon may relate to dualism (eg, knowledge = power) and/or...
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