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FIRSTLY,
NOBODY KNOWS WHERE THE BRAKES ARE?!
While some experts are familiar with developments in one field,
such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, big data or genetics,
no one is an expert on everything!? No one is therefore capable of connecting àll the dòts & seeing
the full picture! Different fields influence one another in sùch intricate ways that even the best minds
cannot fathom how breakthroughs in artificial intelligence might impact nanotechnology, or vice versa?
Nobody can absorb all the latest scientific discoveries, nobody can predict how the global economy will
look in ten years, and nobody has a clue where we are heading in such a rish! Since no one under-
stands the system anymore, no one càn stòp ìt... Secondly, if we somehow succeed in hitting the brakes
our economy will collapse, along with our society. The modern economy needs constant & indefinite New
Growth in order to survive? Ìf growth ever stops, the economy won't settle down to some cosy equilibrium;
it wìll Fàll to Pieces! That's why capitalism encourages us to seek immortality, happiness & divinity?! There's
a limit to how many shoes we can wear, how many cars we can drive & how many skiing holidays we can
enjoy! An economy built on everlasting growth needs endless projects - just like the quests for immortality,
Bliss & Divinity. Well then, ìf we NÉÉD endless projects, why not settle for bliss and immortality, & at least
put aside The Frightening Quest for superhuman POWERS? Because IT ìs inextricable from The Other Two.
WHEN YOU develop bionic legs that enable paraplegics to walk again, YOU CAN also use The Same Tech-
nology to upgrade Healthy PEOPLE! When you discover how
to stop memory loss among older people, the same
treatments might enhance the memory
of the young... No clear
line separates healing
from ùpgráding
...
28 mrt 2019 - bewerkt op 02 apr 2019 - meld ongepast verhaal
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