With the USS McCain collision, even Navy tech can’t overcome human shortcomings.
One mistake can cascade into a disaster in heavy marine traffic, regardless of tech.
Of course, every generation regards its reckoning with new technology as a turning point for the species. But what’s important to realize, whether our blip in history is truly pivotal or just another moment of five-alarm normalcy, is this: The choices people make in the face of anxiety always determine whether the world they leave behind looks more utopian than dystopian.
Every generation regards its reckoning with new technology as a turning point for the species. You just have to learn to stop worrying and love the future.
Scientists at the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) the Netherlands, are looking back to the 1970s to meet the energy needs of the future. For the first time since 1976, the NRG team is conducting experiments in thorium molten salt reactor technology that could lead to cleaner, safer nuclear reactors capable of supplying energy on a global scale.
How will our relationship to technology evolve in the future? Will we regard it as something apart from ourselves, part of ourselves, or as a new area of evolution? In this new video from the Galactic Public Archives, Futurist Gray Scott explains that we are a part of a technological cosmos. Do you agree with Scott that technology is built into the universe, waiting to be discovered?
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Point discussed at 1:31 in the video: https://youtu.be/VJ_qtKf64Is?t=1m3s
From the conference text at: https://www.academia.edu/34323947/Mont_Order_July_2017_Conference_Text
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If Data Analytics and Analysis is being used today to predict and control what we purchase, what we spend our time on and how we vote in political elections, what are its future uses?
This technology will only become more powerful and accurate over time.
Is this an advanced form of mind control?