by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 11, 2024 | Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
The first article I ever wrote here was about my Alma Mater no longer naming any specific Liberal Arts as areas of study in their marketing. Including my own area — Philosophy — all were piled together under “other”. Recently I discovered they...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 26, 2016 | Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
Should we care if our species becomes extinct? I don’t mean should we try to avoid it from happening tomorrow. I mean if (when) the earth becomes no longer suitable for life, the backup plan seems to be to colonize other worlds. This TED talk suggests that to do...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 5, 2015 | Business & Economics, Technology & Futurism
The principle of “jugaad” or “frugal innovation” is the basis for solutions in emerging economies in the “Global South”, and near anathema for Western Capitalism, where bigger is better and more expensive. This TED Talk speaks of...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 6, 2015 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk discusses how local law enforcement collects vast personal data on citizens regardless of warrants or even suspicion. Owning a cell phone and having a license plate can be used to identify you with everything from peaceful protests to visiting a mosque....
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 11, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism
This short TED Talk has a lot of little gems in a big issue. The telling change of a book title. The democratization of biochemistry. The false fears of the Hadron Collider weighed against considerations of more credible plausibilities. The speaker posits that,...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 4, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk is a series of pointed assaults on the “[[Nothing to hide argument]]”, and declares that lack of privacy actually changes our behavior in fundamental ways. An excerpt: The people who are actually saying that are engaged in a very extreme act...
