A Different Future For Humanity

"With AI progressing by leaps and bounds and several commercial humanoid robots developing fast, both knowledge jobs and manual labor jobs are on the edge of a major disruption. What will people do for work when robots can do all the work for far cheaper? Why bother learning anything when AI devices can give you any answer you need at any moment? And what kind of future are we heading toward?"

Click on the link below for a video delving into a future that humanity has never had to face before:

Why Even Learn Things Anymore?

Understand What Is The Greater Negative Influence In The USA

"Everyone knows the rule about not meeting your heroes because they'll so often disappoint you, today we look at the most disappointing yet most idolized false heroes of our day, the twits of tech and the zany hijinks they've been getting up to recently."

Click on the link below for an expose of the dangerous influence of for-profit corporations, especially in technology fields:

The False Promises, Enshittification Economics, and Misguided Adventures of the Twits of Tech

(Please understand that I support REGULATED capitalism,
BUT, that is not what is happening in the USA)

Mega-Corporations And Big Tech: A Monopoly Nightmare

"The effort to turn theory into practice that will open up new ways of thinking about antitrust lawsuits attempting to rein in big tech and other mega-corporations, which are operating in a new phase of capitalism."

Click on the link below for a podcast presenting the history of monopolies, anti-trust legislation and what is needed presently to resist the continuing growth of monopolistic corporate practices:

New Era of Antitrust for a New Era of Capitalism, Mega-Corporations and Big Tech

A Fresh Look At The Luddite Movement

"'Luddite' should never have become the epithet that it is as the Luddites were never afraid of or opposed to technological advancement, they only opposed the exploitation of workers and the degradation to society that came with the unfair distribution of the benefits of the targeted technology."

Click on the link below for an enlightening podcast:

New Tech and the Luddite Movement

The Worsening Of Attention Span

"How long can you focus on a thought – or anything – without being interrupted by your flashing phone? With a powerful distraction inches away, many people find their ability to focus has dwindled to a matter of minutes, according to our next guest. New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari explores the importance of attention and how it has been “stolen” in his latest book. The author speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about what he has found."

Click on the link below for the details:

Are You Having Trouble Paying Attention?

Privacy In The Era Of High-Tech

"Nita Farahany is a professor at Duke Law School and one of the nation's leading scholars on the social, ethical and legal implications of emerging technologies. Preet speaks with Farahany about how advances in brain monitoring devices will impact the workplace and courtroom, whether a 'gene for violence' exists, and how A.I. is influencing bail and sentencing decisions."

Click on the link below for a sobering look at the threat to privacy from technological advances:

Is there a right to privacy of thought?

What Science And Technology Has Produced

"Technology is a core component of the human experience. We have been creating tools to help us tame the physical world since the early days of our species.

"Any attempt to count down the most important technological inventions is certainly debatable, but here are some major advancements that should probably be on any such list (in chronological order):"

Top 20 Greatest Inventions of All Time