Foreign Policy Special Report: The Future is Now
Some of the “world’s most bleeding-edge thinkers” give their predictions of the year 2025 to FP and as you can imagine, it’s pretty grim. Start with Google’s Hal Varian: Micromultinationals Will Run the World (And cheap robots will help them do it) and work your way downhill.
(via brooklynmutt)
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- the future
- the machines
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today.
— Lawrence Krauss (via allhailtheinfidel) (via ageofreason, neightkelly)
America, I’m going to shoot straight with you: I think I’ve wasted your time.
— Glenn Beck (via brooklynmutt)
I want to be him when I grow up.
The Best Of Anthony Weiner Being Awesome
Expand your fucking vocabulary.
You never need to subvert a group of people to make a point.
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! Peter Segal says…
Northern California: “40 years ago everyone was stoned all the time and that’s why they dreamed of a world where there was only peace and love and happiness and hemp clothing. Then about 20 years ago things changed people here started dreaming about a world in which people use the same little electronic box to order pizza, make friends and listen to Portuguese fado music on the elliptical machine. We thought about that and we realized, it’s the same people! They never went straight they just got venture capital!”
