Posts Tagged ‘Technocrats’

Ignorance Is Futile: Direct link between historical Eugenicists and modern Techno-Plutocrats established. The “Techonomy” conference is happening (right now) August 4-6, in Lake Tahoe, California. Organized by Fortune magazine veterans David Kirkpatrick, Peter Petre and Brent Schlender, the conference is set to showcase the future economy envisioned by the ruling technocrats . NASA’s “Planetary Skin” [...]

Ignorance Is Futile Exclusive: I’ve yet to see the question asked: with increasing computer power and quality of techniques why aren’t ‘we’ getting better at sustainable economics? Where is our age of prosperity? Increased computational power shouldn’t mean decreased prosperity for all… unless it’s being used to deliberately plunder the masses. When we look at [...]

Ignorance Is Futile: Just one of DARPA’s many AI programs cost taxpayers $150M. Now basically considered a success, SRI who built “Siri” has now sold it to Apple for up to $250M. In effect, we’ve all paid $1 to help build a Skynet prototype. Since I don’t agree with this type of research, for many [...]

Ignorance Is Futile: The very notion of being able to transform ones self into something like a cyborg inherently appeals to concepts of individual liberty. Misguided transhumanists typically attempt to utilize Libertarian philosophy to justify their goals, but in actuality they instead engage in rationalization with false notions of liberty. Libertarian philosophy is arguably the [...]

Ignorance Is Futile Exclusive: I was just doing a casual view of the governor candidates for here in Florida, clicked on Michael E. Arth’s Wikipedia page, and to my own amazement I happened across this: UNICE is an acronym for Universal Network of Intelligent Conscious Entities, a term coined by artist and futurist Michael E. [...]