thinking about worst-cast scenarios, imagining the most bizarre, terrible things that could make me fail, thus leading to my termination and subsequent death.
“Almost every product promises to change your life: it will make you more beautiful, cleaner, more sexually alluring, and more successful. Born again, as it were. The messages contain promises about the future, unfailingly optimistic, exaggerating, miracle-promising—the same ideology that invites corporate executives to exaggerate profits and conceal losses, but always with a sunny face. The virtual reality of the advertiser and the “good news” of the evangelist complement each other, a match made in heaven.”
― Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
― Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
“Singularity? It’s a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.”
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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