I can’t helping thinking that, before we transcend the human condition and upload our brains to computers, a reasonable first step might be to bring the 17th-century Enlightenment to the 98% of the world that still hasn’t gotten the message.
Scott Aaronson on the Future
7 September 2008
16 July 2008
Happiness shouldn’t be something that happens to us in the future, maybe someday, if things go well. Happiness should be here and now, who we are now, with the people we’re with now, doing the things we’re doing now. And if we’re not with people who make us happy, and doing things that make us happy … then we should take action to make that happen. That’s the simple formula for happiness.
Zen Habits on Happiness
15 May 2008
Instead, I believe that in the future, social networks will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be. And also, without that social context in our connected lives, we won’t really feel like we are truly living and alive, just as without sufficient air, we won’t really be able to breathe deeply.
Charlene Li on Social Networks
10 May 2008
Why do magazines arrive long before the date on the cover? And how will future historians actually know when we knew the things in them, if the dates are wrong?
Tenured Radical on Magazines