“I think cultures are kinds of virtual realities where whole populations of people become imprisoned inside a structure which is linguistic and value-based.”
“Now, if we’re gonna become a planetary being, we can’t have the luxury of an unconscious mind, that’s something that goes along with the monkey-stage of human culture. And so comes then the prosthesis of technology, that all our memories and all our sciences and our projective planning abilities can be downloaded into a technological artifact which is almost our child or our friend or our companion in the historical adventure.”
China's Century, if it can keep it
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My elder brother called Thanksgiving evening and at one point he asked "Is
China kicking our ass?"
Short answer: yes, since around 2008. Longer answer: "It...
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