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Speculating on the 2024 U.S. presidential election: The final transhumanist left/right showdown?

January 11, 2020January 12, 2020admin

U.S. presidential elections are scheduled on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Following that schedule, the 2024 elections are to be [Read more]

Killing General Suleimani

January 6, 2020admin

This insurance plan against a remote contingency was spelled out in a 2000 article published by the prestigious Chinese Society for Strategy and [Read more]

Dismantling the doomsday machine

July 27, 2019July 27, 2019admin

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, [Read more]

The Hermitix Podcast: Michel Serres

July 7, 2019July 27, 2019admin

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, [Read more]

Trump almost attacks Iran – postpones WW3

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019admin

It’s a crisis that President Donald Trump predictably provoked by pulling out of the Iranian nuclear deal just over a year ago — [Read more]

The Fourth Age – Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity (content marketing)

December 6, 2018January 6, 2020admin

If you thought reading one book about the future meant you read them all – think again! Content marketing: Legends like Ray Kurzweil, [Read more]

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

August 26, 2018December 6, 2018admin

Update: To image leaky atmosphere, NASA rocket team heads north — ScienceDaily In the future, the Earth System could potentially follow many trajectories (12, [Read more]

Artificial intelligence beyond the superpowers

August 19, 2018August 19, 2018admin

Much of the debate over how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect geopolitics focuses on the emerging arms race between Washington and Beijing, as [Read more]

Syria: from bad to WW3

April 9, 2018April 10, 2018admin

No World War 3 here – nothing to see – move along. Recently president Trump said that his administration would be making “major decisions” [Read more]

Scenarios for North Korea and The Prospect of a Nuclear War

September 5, 2017September 5, 2017admin

Sanctions against North Korea, have been imposed by various countries and international bodies since 2006. The embargo is largely concerned with North Korea’s [Read more]