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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

                                        --Arthur C. Clarke

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Techno-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

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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]

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Monetizing EVERYTHING

When life becomes monetized

• Trap of Turning Hobbies into Hustles

Other topics to Research

1. Pinterest's (the company)interest in creativity.
2. Loss of leisure time (as that time has been monetized)
3. Only fans
4. Youtubers
5. Influencers
6. Rainbow Capitalism

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Human Performance

Perfecting people and their experiences

• Three Science Based Strategies to Increase Your Creativity

Other topics to Research

1. Creativity
2. Exo-skeltons
3. Neurology and Neura-link
   • is neuroscience a bigger threat than artificial intelligence?
   • Hive consciousness: New research puts us on the cusp of brain-to-brain communication. Could the next step spell the end of individual minds?
   • A 62-Year-Old Paralyzed Man Sent Out His First Tweet With Brain Chip
4. micro-dosing
5. Telomere regeneration
   • Should Defeating Aging Be Humanity’s Foremost Priority?
   • Virtual Reality

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A.I and UBI

Changes in what work means

• Will UBI Save Us when AI Takes All the Jobs.
• What Happens When Machines Become Smarter than People?

Other topics to Research

1. A.I and white collar jobs
2. A.I and blue collar jobs
3. UBI as practically applied
4. Is work actually needed
5. Virtual work post-covid
   • How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole

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Mass Information

Information overload causing less knowledge

• Unknown Unknowns, the Problem of Hypocognition.

Other topics to Research

1. Emotions/dopamine and social media
   • Escape the echo chamber: First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult
2. Misinformation on Social Media
   • China’s new ‘social credit system’ is a dystopian nightmare
   • Immune to influence
3. CyberneticsHow
   • How often we touch phones
4. Stop reading the news
5. Snopes

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MirrorWorld

Fusion of digital and reality: 4d, Augmented reality

• Welcome to the MirrorWorld; Why It Matters.

Other topics to Research

1. Augmented Reality
2. Stop Taking Photos
3. Preframing
4. Digital Amnesia and lies
5. Uncanny valley
6. Simulated Universe
   • Confirmed! We Live in a Simulation
   • Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
   • The universe is not a simulation: The argument that the universe is a simulation is based on flawed reasoning and bad science.
   • Gates/Tyson Code in the universe [video]

Aliens

We are not alone?

• Newest research on the Great Filter"[Peer reviewed article]
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