Gene editing is proliferating at a rate perhaps even faster than our forecasts of 2021 and 2022 said would happen—and we didn’t hold back the nightmare scenarios.
Tag: technology
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BRINGING UP BABY IN THE SYNTHETIC DEVOLUTION
A poll published last week reported that nearly a third of so-called Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ.
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THE UNBEARABLE FAKENESS OF ELITE CARBON ZEALOTS AT DAVOS
The World Economic Forum’s Davos summit last week had no shortage of commentators calling for a more tightly controlled world.
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MOZILLA WANTS TO KNOW: WHO’S FEEDING MICROSOFT’S AI COPILOT?
Mozilla, the not-for-profit project that makes the Firefox web browser, is asking people to sign a petition calling for Microsoft to come clean on how it's training its Copilot AI.
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IT’S ALREADY A POST-HUMAN WORLD
Our cell phones and the internet have not made us more free or productive, any more than all those new appliances heralded in the 1940’s and and 50’s ended drudgery for home makers.
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TOP TREND 2024 EV GO FU: HERTZ STUMBLES OVER EV HURDLES
Not so long ago, the Biden administration was heralding a major Hertz Rental Car investment in fleets of Electric Vehicles, as a cutting edge example of the EV transition.
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“ELVIS” ON AI TOUR, AND “GEORGE CARLIN” DROPS A NEW COMEDY SPECIAL
In 1997, I wrote a play called Permanent Things, in which a character talking to her movie star father tells him what’s in the tea leaves for the future:
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Controlling and restricting travel is becoming a more open objective of the green energy transition, also known to readers of these pages as the Degrowth agenda.
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AMAZON BUYS INTO PERPLEXITY AI, AS FOUNDER ADMITS AI SEARCH ENGINES CONTAIN INTERNET POISON PILL
AI powered search engine startup Perplexity AI has gained backing by Amazon’s mega billionaire founder Jeff Bezos.
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BARD’S ANSWER
This holiday season, in addition to the blessings of time spent with family and good friends, I happened upon an interesting TV chestnut of Christmas past.