Humanity

The reason we are mesmerized by the Joker character, however, has nothing to do with his Fleck syndrome, childhood drama or violence outbursts. We cheer for him and we feel for him because we all can see ourselves in this ostracized social freak.

We live in "modern advanced societies" where your place of birth and the color of your skin still defines your fate. Technology will give us an alternative.

It is always fascinating to read sci fi authors of XX century. And not purely due to the beauty and sophistication of...

How are we planning to compete with General Artificial Intelligence? The million-dollar question is: should we?

If we at this stage are talking about mind uploading, why do we ignore the possibility of advanced civilizations having done so billions years ago?

Previous Information Revolutions gave mortals the knowledge and leverage to become influential and valuable. 3rd Information Revolution will make us Gods.

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying." - Woody Allen

A book with the most contradictory reviews and a huge impact of our perception of the world, the fragility of life and an infinite potential of a human race.

Wait, what about the destroyed forests and extinct animals? What about the coal-black sky above Beijing? What about the spelt oil and millions of sea inhabitants that have been suffocated by human greed? Do we even care about it listening to the latest reproduction of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and making vacation plans on a latest Stan-grad designed app?

We want to enjoy our success and be able to show it to the others, just like the rich of the world are not afraid of showing off their achievements to the world.  But how do you aspire for success and happiness when pretty much all you can do is already being done by the robot, who is owned by X&Co?