Scenario notes on the consequences of the corona pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on health care systems and the global economy. The many unknowns of the virus make it hard
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China and global epidemic modeling
The narrowing gap between modeled and virologically confirmed cases is important for several reasons. First, it shows that the massive public health effort
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Speculating on the 2024 U.S. presidential election: The final transhumanist left/right showdown?
U.S. presidential elections are scheduled on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Following that schedule, the 2024 elections are to be
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Killing General Suleimani
This insurance plan against a remote contingency was spelled out in a 2000 article published by the prestigious Chinese Society for Strategy and
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Dismantling the doomsday machine
I would say that our damage-limiting, counterforce-decapitating, highly accurate, fast-launched weapons—air-launched weapons and ICBMs and increasingly accurate sub-launched missiles, but particularly the ICBMs,
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The Hermitix Podcast: Michel Serres
Serres entered France’s naval academy, the École Navale, in 1949 and the École Normale Supérieure (“rue d’Ulm”) in 1952. He aggregated in 1955,
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Trump almost attacks Iran – postpones WW3
It’s a crisis that President Donald Trump predictably provoked by pulling out of the Iranian nuclear deal just over a year ago —
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The Fourth Age – Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity (content marketing)
If you thought reading one book about the future meant you read them all – think again! Content marketing: Legends like Ray Kurzweil,
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Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
Update: To image leaky atmosphere, NASA rocket team heads north — ScienceDaily In the future, the Earth System could potentially follow many trajectories (12,
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Artificial intelligence beyond the superpowers
Much of the debate over how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect geopolitics focuses on the emerging arms race between Washington and Beijing, as
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