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The best book I read in 2008
I’ve had the pleasure to read through several dozen fine books in 2008 – here’s a partial list of reviews. (One reason this list is “partial” is because I often neglected to assign the label “books”...
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Predictions for the decade ahead
Before highlighting some likely key trends for the decade ahead – the 2010′s – let’s pause a moment to review some of the most important developments of the last ten years. Technologically, the 00′s...
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Yoga, mindfulness, science, and human progress
Friday’s Financial Times carried a major article “The mind business“: Yoga, meditation, ‘mindfulness’ – why some of the west’s biggest companies are embracing eastern spirituality The article describes...
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Fixing bugs in minds and bugs in societies
Suppose we notice what appears to be bugs in our thinking processes. Should we try to fix these bugs? Or how about bugs in the way society works? Should we try to fix these bugs too? As examples of...
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When faith gets in the way of progress
Is it good that we grow old, weak, disease-prone, and eventually succumb, dead, to the ravages of aging? The rise and fall of our health and vigour is depicted in this sketch from leading...
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The critical importance of culture engineering
Here’s a prediction for what the world will be like in thirty years’ time: The world will be at a new orbit in history. We will translive all over this planet and the solar sphere — home everywhere. We...
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Can technology bring us peace?
The summer months of 2014 have brought us a sickening surfeit of awful news. Our newsfeeds have been full of conflict, casualties, and brutalities in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, and so on. For example,...
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