This week, Ben Carson not only pronounced “Hamas” as “hummus” when speaking to Jewish Republicans but also vowed to bomb “Al Cater.”
- Est salesman Werner Erhard is making a comeback or something.
- Silicon Valley became something of an Immortality Industrial Complex.
- Transhumanist pol Zoltan Istvan yearns for techno-fascism.
- Boundaries of gene-editing tools will likely be pushed by Transhumanists.
- Companies want to stamp your skin with temporary biotech tattoos.
- To combat climate change, the fossil-fuel industry may be purposely imploded.
- Peter Thiel has the hots for nuclear energy.
- Carbon taxes won’t solve climate change but could spur innovation.
- It won’t matter if Uber fits classic disruption models or not.
- Big Auto may be left on the outside of transportation’s future.
- The ever-expanding “human cloud” may lay Labor low.
- Half of Japan’s jobs may be robotized in 20 years. Or not.
- Typewriter enthusiasts are dedicated to low-tech keyboarding.
- Barnes & Noble wants to reinvent itself as a “lifestyle brand.” Oy gevalt.
- Cambridge is investing in its study of future-tech ethics.
- Michael Forman was a Zelig-ish con man with a delirious life.
- Old Print Article: Jack Dempsey thinks the Machine Age ruined boxing. (1933)
- A brief note from 1902 about old bones.
- A brief note from 1901 about stolen kisses.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.