Posted on 07/16/2013 7:08:31 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
Every year, the online magazine Edge--the so-called smartest website in the world, helmed by science impresario John Brockman--asks top scientists, technologists, writers, and academics to weigh in on a single question. This year, that query was "What Should We Be Worried About?", and the idea was to identify new problems arising in science, tech, and culture that haven't yet been widely recognized.
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Oh, I used the direct link from “Jim from C-Town” without thinking about it and did not realize that the original post is linked to a site that only SUMMARIZES the 150 points.
Y’all use the direct link (thanks to “Jim from C-Town”) if you want to read all the essays, and wonder what I was talking about immediately above.
http://www.edge.org/responses/q2013
This.
With my sweet and gentle communicating style, within a couple of hours I would have her cooing like a love sick kitten.
I think “Black Swan Events” are so much BS - some intellectual’s attempt to make a name for himself by coming up with some new catchy concept he can obsess about with his chattering-class buddies - supposedly events that no one could have seen coming, in fact I think they’re often just issues no one wants to talk about until they come to a head - the big financial crash of 2008 was supposed to have been a Black Swan, but people as financially unschooled as me were asking years ago what was going to happen to all those ARM mortgages being given out to people who could barely afford them when their rates reset - but of course we weren’t permitted to talk about such things in public because that would have been “racist” or shown no respect for the poor - and of course we can’t talk about them today because we’d end up implicating half the ‘rat party in the reckless policies that brought on the collapse - I’d be much more worried about politicians and entertainment-intellectuals misleading the public than I would be about any “Black Swan”......
I have this odd thing about being in close quarters with someone who is vomiting or is about to.
I can see it on TV or in a YouTube video but not up close.
I've never understood what it meant. The Blue Sky. The Yellow Daffodil. The Red Ferrari. What's the point?
The problem here is that I've yet to see a dated publication prior to 9/11 warning of the danger of airliners being flown into skyscrapers. Somebody may indeed have foreseen this, but I suspect its mostly hindsight genius.
The closest I've seen to prediction of this disaster was in a Tom Clancy novel, when a Japanese radical flies a plane into the Capitol during the State of the Union address. But that was a cargo plane.
If Ariana Huffington is on this list of the 150 smartest people in the world...I don’t know what to say about its validity.
30. We should worry about several "modern" States that, in practical terms, are shaped by crime; States in which bills and laws are promulgated by criminals and, even worse, legitimized through formal and "legal" democracy. – Eduardo Salcedo-albaran, Colombian philosopher
I found the list very interesting. Thanks for posting it.
Nothing public. Thee are guys who used to work for the alphabet agencies.
Well, there you have it!
It’s just a cool way to describe a unforeseen epicly terrible event. 9/11...mortgage crash..zombie apocalypse...
Thing is about 9/11...I was telling my wife that there was this millionaire out of the 14nth century named OBL who’s declared war on the US and something bad will happen. How’d I know with reading reports on a dial up computer and our entire intelligence community didn’t. I picked the wrong profession.
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