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35 minutes talk between Chelsea Follett and Jay Richards - American analytic philosopher who focuses on the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. https://humanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DSC1215.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J3iFxn3fxos/maxresdefault.jpg https://open.spotify.c...

Some of Kurzweil's graphs are certainly true, correct and important. Here's an example - USA's GDP per capita graph in constant 2023 dollars, which is probably about correct (although it's unfortunately not purchasing power parity - PPP): https://i.postimg.cc/bvW2NP7y/image.png Some of his points ma...

Here's a short Amazon review of Terry Grossman's and Ray Kurzweil's 2004 book Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever : https://i.postimg.cc/YSjKpB7C/image.png It seems like the bridges to radical increases in longevity are not coming as quickly as some predicted. However, much of the sci...

Back in primary school, I noticed that when I wear sunglasses (shades) on my head, in some conditions, the world around looks better than when I don't. This soon lead me to think and imagine, how in about 20 years, there could be intelligent computerized glasses, that adapt to current conditions aro...

Kevin Kelly (born in 1952) has had more success in his predictions than Kurzweil, believe it or not. And he traveled a lot , largely by walking and cycling. He authored multiple books , including photography books and has given many lectures. Here's his website: https://kk.org/ Kevin has been criti...

Here are some recent photos featuring some chosen famous people born in 1948 (same year as R.K.): Jean Reno (actor) https://i.postimg.cc/K88w97sM/image.png Samuel L. Jackson (actor) https://i.postimg.cc/MHjKj21z/Samuel-L-Jackson.jpg Charles III (king) https://i.postimg.cc/3wRB5ngg/King-Charles-III.j...

At least for those living in the UK, you are now able to buy online Radeon 7900 XTX for 800 £ while Radeon 7800 XT is available for 490 £ . On August 20th 2021, Asus Radeon RX 6900 XT TUF Gaming OC was selling for 1350 £, which was quite a lot, when taking into consideration that back in March of 20...

I'm very interesting which software keyboard, voice recognition and AIs fellow futurology aficionados use on their Android phones. I've never owned an Apple device by the way, so I don't know much about iPhones. I have a very modern Android smartphone with currently Android 14 OS, no smartwatch or s...

This podcast (Build for Tomorrow "When exactly were the Good Old Days?" ) explains how nostalgia has been fooling us for thousands of years and how it connects to Donald Trump popularity and winning U.S.A.'s elections in 2016: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Bex33IbiPWLUOaHKPx6St?si=kCQ2...

Smartphones have had a similar user experience for many years now. It's basically a rectangular computer with a touchscreen, microphones, cameras and other sensors. There is no large improvement in day-to-day user experience. Just advertisements pretending this or that. Faster processing, slightly b...