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Tech-Optimism Bias —

"Embedded in nearly all of our future-oriented analyses is an assumption that global economic activity (global gross domestic product) will increase steadily throughout this century. No techno-economic model that I am aware of investigates global economic collapse. Leaders in government and the private sector, who constitute the desired audience for such scenarios, would not wish to be seen taking global dysfunction seriously."

Global collapse is in view - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists In light of Putin's decision to make nuclear weapons look usable, it has become all too clear that the global scientific community must reinvent the informal, cooperative, scientist-to-scientist relationships that once were so valuable. Not just Russia’s scientists, but China’s too must particip...

Ex-Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris on and Human Downgrading

Ex-Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris on Technology and Human Downgrading Ex-Google Ethicist Tristan Harris on human downgrading and how Silicon Valley's extractive attention economy is tearing apart our shared social fabric.

Eudaemonia in times of Digitization —

» Happiness in the digital age: Free PDF with the complete 9th chapter of my book ‘Technology vs Humanity’! [Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker] My 2016 book Technology vs Humanity is still going strong; in fact it's roaring, with new translations such as Russian and Chinese, and others coming soon. Many topics first mentioned in the book have become mainstream and global memes, such as Digital Ethics. Last week,...