Techno-Optimism

“Hope, articulated with optimism, is not naive and wishful thinking. It is a pragmatic understanding of knowing our place and choosing to not experience life from the darkness of our caves.” - Kevin Russell A place to share visions of our future. For all far-seeing and interested in contributing to an optimistic and abundant future for our planet and all Earthlings. Let's embrace technology and optimism and find ways to share these visions with those of the common doom and gloom mentality. To solve our grand challenges as quickly as possible we must first envision the grand future we all deserve. We can be short-sighted and imagine only the future we will exist within. Or we can be far-seeing and imagine all of the future to come.
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Technology is not a thing, but a life-like, evolving organism that has its own ‘wants’ and ‘needs’. Kevin Kelly argues we need to understand what ‘it’ wants to project where technology is headed to capture its full gifts.

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#Digitalization: "A #technology becomes exponential once it becomes digitalized. It becomes represented in ones and zeroes. Once that happens, it becomes an information-based technology and it hops on an exponential growth curve. A classic example being Moore’s laws covering...See more

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“We have #domesticated ourselves. Our teeth continue to shrink (because of cooking, our external stomach), our muscles thin out, our hair disappears. As fast as we remake our tools, we remake ourselves. We are co-evolving with our #technology, and so we have become deeply dependent on it. If all technology — every last knife and spear — were to be removed from this planet, our species would not last more than a few months. We are now symbiotic with technology.”- Kevin Kelly

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#CRISPR Restored: #Scientists Reverse Finding That #Gene Editing #Technology Had Flaws On July 2017, the stock in three gene editing companies–Editas Medicine, Intellia Therapeutics and CRISPR Therapeutics–all fell sharply as a result of that CRISPR can cause hundreds of...See more

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Doctors have taken a major step towards curing the most common form of blindness in the UK - age-related macular degeneration. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43458365?SThisFB

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“Hope, articulated with optimism, is not naive and wishful thinking. It is a pragmatic understanding of knowing our place and choosing to not experience life from the darkness of our caves.” - Kevin Russell A place to share visions of our future. For all far-seeing and interested in contributing to an optimistic and abundant future for our planet and all Earthlings. Let's embrace technology and optimism and find ways to share these visions with those of the common doom and gloom mentality. To solve our grand challenges as quickly as possible we must first envision the grand future we all deserve. We can be short-sighted and imagine only the future we will exist within. Or we can be far-seeing and imagine all of the future to come.