Do you know about Lex Fridman's podcasts where he interviews interesting people - for hours? An AI researcher at MIT himself, Fridman got this idea of interviewing interesting people in depth. He began it with his 2018 interview with MIT physicist Max Tegmark, the Swedish scientist who is also deeply involved in the progess of … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | Is the attention span of people dropping? | Then how do we explain the success of podcaster Lex Fridman?
Rescuing History | Pandora’s box on the western plains | the Battle of the Little Big Horn
"You and I are going home today on a road we do not know."
Rescuing Reality | The Stupidity Paradox | why some of us struggle in the workplaces of today
........when you consider that we live in a gigantic house-of-cards world, threatening to collapse..... don't we need more intelligence, not less?
Rescuing the Future | Jon Stewart and David Petraeus and the future of the world
.......You know, if Jon Stewart ran for president in 2024, and if I was an American citizen, I would......
Rescuing the Future | mid-term elections in the USA | is there reason to hope?
Can it really be that Americans are ready to move away from the democracy that created their country? Are they really going to go down that dark road?
Rescuing the Future | Politics and Social Democracy | Tony Judt’s last warning to us
The only thing worse than too much government is too little ...........
Rescuing the Future | Russia vs Ukraine | How Putin’s War will Change the World
Attempting to forecast the Russian economy right now is a bit like taking a snapshot of an egg thrown out a window.
Rescuing ourselves, or trying to | Canada votes
So today is Canada's election, and like most elections now, all eyes are on Left vs Right. In this country, the centre-left Liberal party has been in power for approx 6 years, but, since 2019, only with a minority government, so they have depended on smaller parties to back them up. Apparently our prime minister, … Continue reading Rescuing ourselves, or trying to | Canada votes
Rescuing the future and the past | Hurricane Ida’s flooding of New York City this week | Saving the city in the year 2278
This week I was reading again about the assault of Hurricane Ida on New York City, this time about how the water overwhelmed the New York subway system. I couldn't help remembering that in my novel Skol, a critical part of my character Simon's long odyssey on wilderness Earth in the year 2278 includes a … Continue reading Rescuing the future and the past | Hurricane Ida’s flooding of New York City this week | Saving the city in the year 2278
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