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A crucial challenge over the coming decades will be helping countries that fall into the grey area between autocracy and democracy make the transition to fully democratic governance. Part of this will depend on careful use of AI to promote openness and transparency while minimising its potential to be abused for authoritarian surveillance or to spread disinformation.
— Jul 29, 2026 05:23PM
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Autonomous vehicles won't just disrupt the jobs of people who sit physically behind the wheel. As truck drivers lose their jobs to automation, there will be less need for people to do truckers' payroll and for retail workers in roadside convenience stores and motels. There'll be less need for people to clean truck stop bathrooms, and lower demand for sex workers in the places truckers frequent today.
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As technology advances, a replicant (as well as those of us who have not died) will have a variety of bodies and types of bodies to choose from.
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Jul 29, 2026 05:27PM
I have written to the Pollyanna Institute of Feelgood Studies nominating Dr. Kurzweil for their prestigious Most Optimistic And Out Of Touch Public Statement Of The Year Award.
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Thanks for the share. Would you consider the book as a popular science book? How scientific would you consider it ?
Aw shucks Catarina, it's just part of the service.It is basically a popular science / technology / futurology book. The author clearly knows a great deal about science. Less convinced by his understanding of history, philosophy and politics.