Tag: Humanity

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, respected for the philanthropic work he’s done since he stepped down from his position as CEO, recently published a must-read blog post on the present and future of AI entitled “The Age of AI has begun.” Gates, who can hardly be accused of being...

The human use of AI covers everything human can imagine could be automated and made more efficiently evil with AI More centralized or air-trigger control of nuclear weapons,more powerful disinformation campaigns, deadliar biological weapons,more effective planning for social control and so on...

Opening with the iconic image of the atomic bomb exploding in a mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, Kinji Fukasaku’s epic 1970s yakuza series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い; Jingi naki tatakai), set the tone for films in Japan in that decade. Not only in its ...

This article was inspired by an interview of a popular Greek writer; Chronis Missios, during which he goes into a frustration filled monologue regarding humanity as a whole and our detachment from that part of us that makes us human (up to the 1.19 mark of the video) A bit about Chronis Missi...

Tosay that the tension between the business world and society as a whole is at a high water mark might be an understatement. Growing income inequality, the constant downward pressure on wages. Tech CEOs already declaring they’re going to be cutting thousands of knowledge worker jobs thanks to ...

Hello everyone, this is your home planet Earth, also known as “Mother Earth,” reaching out to you. As you may have noticed, things aren’t going so well for me (and us) — and we need to talk. I’ve got to say, first off … you humans are a very peculiar and ungra...

The internet, and I include the world wide web in that word, has become a messy, chaotic, unruly mess. Navigating a news media site to actually get to the article you want to read has become a nightmare. Streaming services are taking us back to the age of regular cable TV with ads. Social Media plat...

Human beings are even better thanks to their diversity. The human species is one of the most multifaceted among all of those inhabiting the Earth. This is the key of humanity’s greatest strength. However, when many political parties, media and social networks, push us to turn agains one anothe...

Look, I’ve been around for about 4.5 billion years, give or take a few million. I’ve seen dinosaurs come and go, watched as meteors made their flashy entrances, and have had my fair share of ice ages and heatwaves. But you, my dear humans, are something else. I mean, in the grand timelin...

Philanthropy can be defined in many ways. The word comes from Greek, meaning “love for humanity.” Modern definitions include the concept of voluntary giving by an individual or group to promote the common good and improve the quality of life. Researching and summarizing what peop...

As Israel’s latest military offensive in Gaza enters its 12th week, hospitals there are overwhelmed with more than 54,500 injured civilians — many facing agonizing decisions no person should ever have to make. While doctors work tirelessly to save lives under impossible conditions, s...

How to Embrace Diversity and Make a Difference Now that we understand the significance of diversity, let’s explore some practical ways in which we can embrace it and contribute to making the world a better place: 1. Educate Yourself Expand your knowledge about different cultures, reli...

Negative messaging, division, conflict. The overwhelming proliferation of these behaviors has reached epidemic proportions in modern culture leaving us increasingly disenfranchised and alone, coping with the injuries these behaviors cause instead of combating the root of the behavior itself. But wha...

Since ancient times, humanity has studied the skies. 70,000 years ago, a red dwarf-brown dwarf pair known as Scholz’s star, so faint that it was only discovered very recently, passed through the Solar System’s Oort cloud. Unlike the illustration, however, it’s so intrinsical...

In this essay, I will explore a question concerning the extinction of the human race; as a result, the end of art, science, complex linguistics, and transferable knowledge. Although counterintuitive to many, I will argue that the extinction of humanity would bring about more “good” than ...

There are currently 4.388 billion Internet users in the world — equivalent to 57% of the world’s population — who spend an average of 6 hours and 42 minutes of their time every day browsing the World Wide Web — about two sevenths of their day (Kemp, 2019). These figures revea...

Do you think most people are immoral, ungrateful, disrespectful, hypocritical, stupid, and incompetent? Politics disgusts you, crowds repel you, you can’t stand the presence of others, and you see the history of humanity as an uninterrupted series of destruction, wars, massacres and inequaliti...

Auguste Comte believed a scientific society and God could not co-exist. A scientific society and religion, on the other hand, absolutely. He saw God and religion as separate entities, and that God’s ‘death’ should not lead to the death of religion, for the sake of humanity. Augu...