Low-Tech Mindwashing
Our imagination makes creativity possible, it makes communication and interpretation of texts, music and art possible. It is also what is controlling us if we aren't aware of its workings. https://youtu.be/16SvEfpCLnA
Sanjin Đumišić
Sanjin Đumišić
Our imagination makes creativity possible, it makes communication and interpretation of texts, music and art possible. It is also what is controlling us if we aren't aware of its workings. https://youtu.be/16SvEfpCLnA
We don't need biometric scanners in classrooms. We don't need RFID chips in our students. We don't need surveillance cameras in schools. However. We do need classical education on logic, philosophy, geometry, ...
Niccolò Machiavelli's book The Prince is a very raw and unedited description of the mechanism of power. How to gain power and maintain power. In his book which is very short, less than ...
Relevant information is always out there, however it's flooded with irrelevancy and boosted up to news from no-news events. People, especially the working families have minimum time to engage in local or ...
As long as we can survive and thrive somewhat as a human society, we will develop more and more complex robots. Industrial efficiency, medical diagnosing and general private use are some of ...
Last night’s dream was played out in an insane asylum, psychiatric ward or a whatever you wanna call that. Everything was symbolic and metaphoric, and a reflection of what I’ve seen in ...
The other week on a discussion on how a transhumanist future would evolve and be like for its citizens, a commentator recommended Psycho-Pass. So I looked it up and thought, oh no, not anime ...
Here is why I quit watching Game of Thrones, Vikings and similar series. A series that has more than 3 seasons lives a dangerous life, few make it the whole way through ...
The other day at my parents place I switches on ‘Robbie’, the robot vacuum cleaner. Florens is always curious about the robot, following it with her full attention. While initially somewhat afraid, ...
Discussion on the status of future human genetic enhancement policies. The conclusion lands on the need to guarantee individual rights in a firm and constitutional way. Also to further expand and increase ...
Today children grow up with all the accessibility online possible. In my observations, more than most (if one can say so) adults really don't know or care about their online footprints and ...
In this day and age anyone with some sort of media awareness knows that there is an unproportional representation of violence, war, criminality, homicide, terror and such in the media landscape - ...
The full transcript below or as a PDF to download. Moderator: {garbled} Aldous Huxley, a renowned Essayist and Novelist who during the spring semester is residing at the university in his capacity of a ...
I just watched an almost forgotten sci-fi classic called Brainstorm. The story is about advanced research on telepathy and mind control that evolves into a secret black operation within the military industrial ...
Recently I watched the sci-fi film THX 1138 from 1971 by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. It's a dystopia in the Orwellian sense and has the typical 'one person ...
The film that time has caught up with. They Live (1988) is a fantastic sci-fi film that in extremely many ways foresaw the future and explains at least the rough concept of what is ...
The film offers no groundbreaking take or vision about the future of artificial intelligence. Yet films like Automata and Transcendence, keep the topic alive in the mainstream so to speak. Offering updates ...