Is the ability to comment on a newspaper article something which makes you a better person because you’re free to express yourself? Here’s what Jaron Lanier says about his experience, “Briefly I was one of the HuffPost’s top bloggers, always on the front...
But it’s not our genes which change. It’s our memes. I agree with psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book on Creativity that “ Creativity is the cultural equivalent of the process of genetic changes that result in biological evolution. (…)...
Why have we called an animal with the following form … a cat? Why not ”cut”, pronounced as kjuːt where the “u” is voiced as its letter pronunciation, because they’re so…cute, right? I guess nobody knows and the question seems pointless. However, while...
When I look at how much companies like Apple invest in Augmented Reality, I think about the next step in human evolution. This morning I woke up thinking about transhumanism and the possibility of two factions: cyborgs and ”learnorgs”. Cyborg is an organism with both...
Dropbox “happily” announced my plan was to double its storage capacity to 2TB for the modest increase of €20 per year. It’s not a bad deal but misses the point. Why haven’t they offered the same for a lower price? I cannot afford the new price because it is above my...
