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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
--Arthur C. ClarkeTechno-idio-synchronicity
- A collective Dunning-Kruger effect of a group of people who continually reaffirm to each other through recursive in-group conifrmation bias that their lay abilites with and understanding of technology exceed the abilities and knowledge of advanced technologists.
Difficulty of Futurology
- Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot
- ‘The best predictor of professional success isn’t cognitive performance, it’s whether your parents have money’
- In a 1967 episode of CBS' "the 21st Century [video]
- 1999: The future as envisaged by 1967 [video]
Areas
- Non-future / Hauntology
- Exo-skeltons
- Telomere regeneration
- UBI as practically applied
- Longtermism
- Biohacking
- Interstellar colonization/terra forming
- non-traditional relationships, e.g. Polyamory
- Surveillance
- Alt dimensions of reality
- Aliens
- Newest research on the Great Filter"[Peer reviewed article]
