JimBowie1958
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- Sep 25, 2011
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1) Space mining is perhaps the most important technology we are working on, and it is getting very little emphasis. The wealth that exists in just Near Earth asteroids is in the hundreds of trillsion of dollars in petroleum, water, precious metals and uranium. The nation that dominmates asteroid mining is the nation that will dominate the next three centuries.
2) Strong AI will either liberate us by removing ignorance and inefficiencies in our various systematic process like economics, job hunting and open source 3D printing codes, or it could become our Master if allowed to operate without human control protocols. We need to do more than fear porn on the topic.
3) Androids will be the new servants of the Brave New World of Tomorrow. Sound too good to be true? Well, the Oligarchs will introduce the new technology in a manner that will fuck everyopne over unless we discuss how to introduce it in a human friendly way and not let the Oligarchs monopolize them.
4) Life Extension is a reality. Some of us alive now may very likely still be alive in 3000 AD. How will this impact Social Security and various other programs whose success depends on us having shorter lives?
5) Voluntary labor/barter economy will be a huge cornucopia of wealth all made by individual people and a system of barter and specialization will in all likelihood evolve that will initially be a sub economy but will morph into the predominate economy as employment shrinks. How can we safegaurd the ability of people to access 3D printer designs and share them with the general public?
2) Strong AI will either liberate us by removing ignorance and inefficiencies in our various systematic process like economics, job hunting and open source 3D printing codes, or it could become our Master if allowed to operate without human control protocols. We need to do more than fear porn on the topic.
3) Androids will be the new servants of the Brave New World of Tomorrow. Sound too good to be true? Well, the Oligarchs will introduce the new technology in a manner that will fuck everyopne over unless we discuss how to introduce it in a human friendly way and not let the Oligarchs monopolize them.
4) Life Extension is a reality. Some of us alive now may very likely still be alive in 3000 AD. How will this impact Social Security and various other programs whose success depends on us having shorter lives?
5) Voluntary labor/barter economy will be a huge cornucopia of wealth all made by individual people and a system of barter and specialization will in all likelihood evolve that will initially be a sub economy but will morph into the predominate economy as employment shrinks. How can we safegaurd the ability of people to access 3D printer designs and share them with the general public?