Futurology

I asked to OpenAI Chat to write an essay as if written by Alvin Toffler with four parts: The first part based on the book “Future Shock” The second part based on the book “The Third Wave” The third part based on the book “PowerShift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at…

Generative AI has taken the world by storm and there’s no going back. On one hand, you have people who are excited about the tech and are looking to experience all the ways it will be helpful. …

The tell-tale signs of a deepfake image used to be easy to spot, but generative AI is making us question just about everything we see and hear now. …

North Korea. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Choson. The mysterious Hermit Kingdom of the Far East makes quite controversial headlines in Western media. Usually depicted as a terrible dictatorship, North Korea is displayed to the Western public as one of Hollywood’s villains. An utterly insane, but ingenious character, bent…

Introduction The United States of America are divided by massive social and political tensions, as well as a broken economic system which is in its self-consuming phase, otherwise known as Late Stage Capitalism, as defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Most Americans, between 40% and 50% of them, according to…

With the rapid rise of new technologies, particularly AI, big data, and surveillance capitalism, is a new form of Luddism inevitable? This article considers some of the emerging ‘signals’, along with reasons why a Neo-Luddite movement would likely only to be short-lived. Signals Something is coming? In her bestselling book, Signals…

Discover How to Maximize the Benefits and Mitigate the Risks of AI in K-12 Education — As we continue to make strides in technology, we’re seeing an increase in the use of artificial intelligence in our everyday lives. From our smartphones to our cars, AI is transforming the way we live and work. …

A skeptial review of Peter Ziehan’s ‘the End of the World is just the Beginning’ I recently read ‘The End of the World is just the Beginning’ by Peter Ziehan, where he lays out his thesis that we are headed for a much darker world this decade and next. To…

The Future of Humanity in a Type 1 Civilization — Introduction The concept of a Type 1 civilization refers to a theoretical model developed by astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev, which describes a society that has harnessed the full potential of its planet’s resources, primarily in terms of energy production. As humanity progresses towards this state, various socio-economic, technological, political, and cultural shifts…