Do you feel confused? Listless? Overwhelmed? Have you ever found yourself scrolling through news feeds and flicking mindlessly through social media posts with a strange mixture of outrage, dread, and boredom? Is your disgust at the thought of going online consistently...
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All Hail Elon’s Martian Technocracy!
Imagine being the real-life Tony Stark: A billionaire, jet-setting tech whiz playboy who's developing the multi-billion-dollar rockets that will not only privatize space travel but help get humanity to Mars. And imagine you announce the whole thing on Twitter with a...
This Is What A Demographic Crunch Looks Like
What comes to your mind when you hear the words "demographic crunch"? If you're like much of the general public, having been steeped their whole lives in propaganda pimping the debunked notion of an "overpopulation crisis," you probably won't even know what the term...
Universal Basic Enslavement
TANSTAAFL. As you may or may not know, depending on how much anarchist sci-fi literature you consume, "TANSTAAFL" is an acronym meaning "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch." But while TANSTAAFL may have been popularized by Robert Heinlein in his 1966 classic,...
Obama, Hiroshima, and the Politics of War Crimes
When it comes to American war crimes, there are no shortage of examples to choose from. For every well-known My Lai massacre there are a thousand lesser-known No Gun Ri massacres. For every Abu Ghraib that enters the lexicon there's a thousand Azizabads that barely...
And Now for the Robot Apocalypse…
by James Corbett TheInternationalForecaster.com July 28, 2015 Well, you can't blame them for trying, can you? Earlier today the grandiloquently named Future of Life Institute (FLI) announced an open letter on the subject of "autonomous weapons." In case you're not...
Solutions: Sousveillance (video)
WATCH ON ODYSEE / YOUTUBE By now we are all familiar with the concept of 'surveillance.' In the Orwellian tyranny of the new normal, we are all gradually being made aware that we are living in a panoptic society where everything we do and say is being watched and...
Episode 272 – Solutions: Sousveillance
By now we are all familiar with the concept of 'surveillance.' In the Orwellian tyranny of the new normal, we are all gradually being made aware that we are living in a panoptic society where everything we do and say is being watched and recorded. So what is the...
