Yup, that'll do it, for now, but there's more in store.
Yuval Harari in "Homo Deus" sees a more sinister future. He contends we will enter a world of plebs and genetically-enhanced super humans as the richest seek a form of manipulated evolution thus creating a new aristocracy for them and a relative state of feudalism for the rest. He foresees a world of algorithms in which emerges a new religion - datism that will displace Abrahamic and other mainstream religions.
Some months ago I read an account of a futurist from some New York university who was asked to appear at a luncheon function for some well-to-do Wall Streeters. The appearance fee was enough that he jumped at it and busied himself writing a speech.
When he arrived he found just three hedge fund guys at a table waiting for him. They weren't interested in a speech. They wanted to ask him questions about what was coming. In particular they wanted to know how to control their personal security if money suddenly became irrelevant. How would they keep their muscle guys from turning on them?
You see these 'higher purpose persons' are cognizant of the challenges the future poses to their privilege and are focused on how to safeguard their edge.
Harari suggests they'll go into some pretty hardcore genetic engineering to create a breed of super humans. Wouldn't the fuhrer have loved that?
Who really knows what the future holds, Mound, except for even more disruption than we are currently experiencing? What is undeniable is that our 'betters' see a storm coming, but instead of working to help prevent it, they are thinking only of how they can protect themselves, something entirely consistent with the perpetual modus operandi of their deplorable ilk.
Yup, that'll do it, for now, but there's more in store.
ReplyDeleteYuval Harari in "Homo Deus" sees a more sinister future. He contends we will enter a world of plebs and genetically-enhanced super humans as the richest seek a form of manipulated evolution thus creating a new aristocracy for them and a relative state of feudalism for the rest. He foresees a world of algorithms in which emerges a new religion - datism that will displace Abrahamic and other mainstream religions.
Some months ago I read an account of a futurist from some New York university who was asked to appear at a luncheon function for some well-to-do Wall Streeters. The appearance fee was enough that he jumped at it and busied himself writing a speech.
When he arrived he found just three hedge fund guys at a table waiting for him. They weren't interested in a speech. They wanted to ask him questions about what was coming. In particular they wanted to know how to control their personal security if money suddenly became irrelevant. How would they keep their muscle guys from turning on them?
You see these 'higher purpose persons' are cognizant of the challenges the future poses to their privilege and are focused on how to safeguard their edge.
Harari suggests they'll go into some pretty hardcore genetic engineering to create a breed of super humans. Wouldn't the fuhrer have loved that?
Who really knows what the future holds, Mound, except for even more disruption than we are currently experiencing? What is undeniable is that our 'betters' see a storm coming, but instead of working to help prevent it, they are thinking only of how they can protect themselves, something entirely consistent with the perpetual modus operandi of their deplorable ilk.
DeleteWhat happened to The Common Good?
ReplyDeleteNow merely another quaint notion, I suspect, Owen.
DeleteMound was referring to Douglas Rushkoff.
ReplyDeleteSurvival of the Richest
https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1
Thanks, Anon.
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