A moderate resurgence in basic thinking skills is seen from time to time, as in this article. It dances around Technocracy but misses the mark in identifying it.
The US-based company, Bioquark, could not conduct such experiments in the U.S., so it goes to a foreign country that won't stop them. Transhumans are on the edge of their seats with this crackpot experiment.
Virtually all tech moguls like Zuckerberg are a) ethically vacuous and b)believe in a borderless world. Thus, kissing up to China is logical and pragmatic.
352 AI experts forecast a 50% chance AI will outperform humans in all tasks within 45 years, and take all jobs from humans within 120 years. A similar study should be done to ask non-AI experts what they forecast.
Can a person be forced to supply incriminating evidence against themselves? Not according to the Constitution, but judges are taking a different interpretation. Truly, this man could be guilty, but it is up to the state to prove its case and supply its own evidence. The defendant should not be forced to testify against himself.
California will tackle Global Warming and carbon mitigation all by itself as its Governor seeks to make his own deal with China. There is little wonder why some Californians refer to their own state as the 'PROC' - People's Republic of California.
The gross speculation of this is deeply disturbing: it has a 69 percent accuracy but they don't know why. Nevertheless, just wait until the insurance companies (life and health) get ahold of this kind of statistical analysis to use against you. You will be 'graded' and priced accordingly.
Who will have the more direct influence on human affairs: the Trump Administration or the collective corporate world? In 1970, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote, “nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state."
The Islamic world is undergoing a scientific and technology renaissance, asserting leadership in Sustainable Development and now colonizing Mars. They expect a UAE city of 600,000 people on Mars by 2117. Will Islam conquer outer space for Allah?
A 'resource-based' economic system like Sustainable Development (aka Technocracy) seeks to hoard all resources on the planet. The oceans are a huge part of the resource pie, and they are coming for them.