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The ideas you swim in
You already know that you will eventually become what you consume. And if unchecked, the thoughts that you allow in your mind become your thoughts. If you don’t believe in groupthink (yet) or you don’t think that you are being influenced by advertisements you encounter every day, think again. Most probably, you are brushing your Read more
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Automatic checkout and endless consumerism
Automatic checkout, which frees customers from drudgery of waiting, is already here. The Future is Faster Than You Think However, this solution also became a problem for some of us. Where convenience became the source of feel-good moments that made people more and more addicted to needless consumption. Generations past used to hold the idea Read more
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Letter no. 8
Dear reader from the future, It’s been more than a year since we’ve been living smaller lives. And yes, governments addressed the situation differently from one another. Some were successful, and some were not. But we shouldn’t totally blame them for the outcome of the rules they impose to keep the surge of cases from Read more
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Angry chicken
I was feeding our chickens one afternoon, and if you haven’t been around chickens before, they clack while running to wherever the food is. Yes, they gather around the food and peck some of whatever they can get. But every time I toss the food around, one particular hen went berserk and chased everyone off. Read more
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Are you ready for a world in which…?
“Read-and-write” neurotech implants are a reality. A device can be implanted in your brain that both “reads” your thoughts and feelings, and also “writes” new, artificial thoughts and memories directly into your head. The first successful read-and-write implant intercepts and records 80% of data sent to the brain’s hippocampus, giving users close-to-perfect recall of anything Read more
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Reflections on becoming
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