Future is happening faster than we thought. It is happening now…
Future is today
Future is happening faster than we thought. It is happening now…
Articles related to : Future
Let us try to peek into the future. Its seeds are already planted. And even sprouts are already growing. Let us try to notice them and prepare ourselves to their full maturity.
Should useful work be paid?
That’s the argument Dutch author Rutger Bregman uses in support of a universal basic income: “The most important obstacle for basic income is a moral obstacle. It is in the ideas that we still have about work. We still work with a very outdated definition of what work is. We define work by getting a […]
Looking forward…
Udo Gollub summarized his impressions from visiting Singularity University summit in Berlin on April 20-21, 2016 and posted them on Facebook. The presenters on the summit (and Udo) try to look into the future. They made many very specific predictions. I liked and could relate to several of them, so here I reprint some of […]
Cleopatra’s nose and butterfly
When I traveled to the western Europe the first few times, I had the bitter feeling of not being able to answer this question: why they lived so much better than we did? I could not accept the simple “because they are smarter” or “because they work better” or “because their government less corrupt”. I […]
We’ll never be able to reach 99.99999999999% of the Universe
Our planet and solar system belong to Milky Way galaxy, which is 100,000 light years across with a supermassive black hole in the center. Average distance between stars is 5 light years (29 trillion miles) approximately. Imagine that the distance from the earth to the sun (93 mln miles, or about 8 light minutes) is […]
Building new… human?
Animal cloning center to be built in Tianjin. Chinese scientists have signed a deal to establish a commercial animal cloning center in the northern port city of Tianjin, edging the controversial science closer to mainstream acceptance. The plant in the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area (TEDA), a government-sponsored business development park, will clone animals […]
State of programming today
Recently, the company I worked for was acquired by another company, and the new owner decided to close Denver office. Suddenly, I had to face the unpleasant necessity to sell myself on the job market again. Last time I did it five years ago and, since then, the programming job landscape has changed. The most […]
