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How Would You Survive Without the Internet Today? . Top Story - September 2021.
How long could you go without all modern forms of communication? 3 minutes? 30 minutes? 3 hours? Well, tens of thousands of us here in South Louisiana have been living through quite an experience - and an experiment in living without perhaps the linchpins of modern life and work - namely reliable cell service and easy access to the Internet.
By David Wyld4 years ago in Futurism
Technology Is Making It Easier To Communicate In The Blink Of An Eye While Replacing The Need For Talking To An Actual Person
Communication is a basic act that implies taking ideas, thoughts, information, or stories and transmitting them to others for the purposes of sharing, educating, or coexisting. While it has evolved over the past 40 years, communication is still just as important today as it ever was. Every day, it seems, that there is something new to learn. Whether it is about the foreign struggle in Afghanistan, the possibility that there are hostages or the protests by the Afghan people against the new regime, we learn it all through media.
By Jason Ray Morton 4 years ago in Futurism
Are We Already Dominated by Artificial Intelligence? — The Future is Predictable
We were all so wrong thinking about the future, we are wrong assuming that, Artificial Intelligence will dominate the future. We missed it, and fail to see our dependency on the machines.
By Muangakili5 years ago in Futurism
Elites Added Layers of Complexity! Now, They are Unable to Manage It.
Complexity is killing us. Right from the laws that govern us to the institutions which enforce them and the courts who adjudicate on them, our world has become so complex that it is virtually (literally as well as figuratively) impossible to comprehend and manage the mindboggling complexity that is so endemic in our lives. What more, even those who claim to understand complexity and have a grip on how to manage it flounder when confronted with solving problems that arise from complex systems.
By Rammohan Susarla5 years ago in Futurism
Try your luck with vision boards
Since I have been proficient at many other forms of mystical pursuits in the past, I decided to try vision boards. I had heard about it multiple times which at this point, having realized that repetition felt like intuitive nudging, that I should give it a whirl.
By Missy Conley5 years ago in Futurism
Burning Bright/Come Away, Human Child
(i) Burning Bright I dreamed about the tiger tonight--approach of handlers and veterinary physicians to the great cat into whom, across species, the invisible worldwide celebrity had perilously entered. Some of those managing the beast were young enough to have partied at close range on sun-spackled beaches with mammals, on the whole, more lethal than this cat they observed at a respectful distance, or tranquilized first before nearer approach. Some were old enough to fear far more the infinitesimal creature within, that may make it under sedation a greater threat than it would be awake, charging, thoroughly pissed as perhaps it has every right to be: you nearly eliminate my kind in their natural state but save specimens of us for show; granted, you care for us in these sheltered unnatural places until suddenly we come in contact with a danger unknown in the wild (where with all due modesty, we were for long ages the principal danger, a crown we’ve ceded a good few of your generations now); you lift us for our safety out of a habitat you’ve made inhospitable for us and our prey, and what happens? an invisible enemy, bred by the same genius that makes civilization, war, prisons, discotheques, casinos, air conditioning, jet exhaust, books and films and music and such, bunker style luxury condos and zoos, slips without being seen through these sheltering bars as easily as it leaps across borders from nation to nation, and lays me low. Your safety is another name for danger.
By Martin Heavisides5 years ago in Futurism
