Tag: dystopia
On Thanksgiving, Support the Scientific Defense of Common Sense
“The heresy of heresies was common sense,” Orwell writes. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Big Tech Wants to Control the Future; Here’s What We Can Do About That
According to the Party slogan, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
Scientists Succeed in Creating Mouse Artificial Wombs
This technology is still a long time from the potential for human application, but it presents issues we need to address now.
A Prophetic Warning Against the Abuse of Science
Learn about the relevance of C.S. Lewis’s dystopian novel for today in this video commemorating its 75th anniversary.
Jay Richards at COSM Talks Ray Kurzweil and Strong AI
Is the “singularity” coming, as Kurzweil argues there and elsewhere, when machines equal and then quickly surpass human intelligence?