the postmodern moment was a necessary one, or will have been if we rise to the occasion to arrive at a new and more textured humanism.
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The book provides set of new utopian ideas, like the elimination of poverty and the creation of the fifteen-hour workweek, can become a reality in our lifetime. Being unrealistic and unreasonable can in fact make the impossible inevitable
Continue ReadingThe Future of Humanity (by Nick Bostrom)
The article sketches an overview of some recent attempts to arrive at a realistic mode of futuristic thought, and it offers a brief discussion of four families of scenarios for humanity’s future: extinction, recurrent collapse, plateau, and posthumanity.
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