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Jul 1, 2018
A Free Education for All the World’s People Will Save our Species
Posted by Odd Edges in categories: computing, education, ethics, finance, internet
In terms of moral, social, and philosophical uprightness, isn’t it striking to have the technology to provide a free education to all the world’s people (i.e. the Internet and cheap computers) and not do it? Isn’t it classist and backward to have the ability to teach the world yet still deny millions of people that opportunity due to location and finances? Isn’t that immoral? Isn’t it patently unjust? Should it not be a universal human goal to enable everyone to learn whatever they want, as much as they want, whenever they want, entirely for free if our technology permits it? These questions become particularly deep if we consider teaching, learning, and education to be sacred enterprises.
When we as a global community confront the truly difficult question of considering what is really worth devoting our limited time and resources to in an era marked by global catastrophe, I always find my mind returning to what the Internet hasn’t really been used for yet — and what was rumored from its inception that it should ultimately provide — an utterly and entirely free education for all the world’s people.
In regard to such a concept, Bill Gates said in 2010:
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Jul 1, 2018
Blockchain was always a religion. And now it’s got its own church
Posted by Steve Nichols in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies
Jul 1, 2018
Musk’s Kent solar farm is green lunacy
Posted by Ian D. Pearson in categories: food, solar power, sustainability
Solar farms in Texas or California are fine, but Kent in England?
Solar farms should be placed in desert regions that have low value for growing food, and relatively low value to nature. Musk plans to install a massive solar farm in nice green Kent, where it is occasionally a little bit sunny. Look at the pics here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5905675/Elon-Musk-bu…plans.html is simply green lunacy.
Jul 1, 2018
Astronaut Mark Kelly says Trump’s order to create a Space Force ‘is a dumb idea’
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: military, space
The US already has the Air Force Space Command and the Space Mission Force.
President Donald Trump on Monday said he wanted to create a sixth military division called the Space Force. But Mark Kelly, a retired NASA astronaut and Navy veteran, tweeted that it was “a dumb idea” because the US Air Force already has a Space Command and a space force.
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Jul 1, 2018
Google sister company and drug giant chip in another $1 billion to cure age-related diseases
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, computing, life extension
Jul 1, 2018
The True Science of Parallel Universes
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: cosmology, science
Jun 30, 2018
Gateway Foundation Spaceport envisions large scale space construction
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: habitats, space
Jun 30, 2018
Rocket developed by Japan startup in flames after liftoff
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space travel
TOKYO, Japan — A rocket developed by a Japanese startup company burst into flames seconds after a failed liftoff Saturday in northern Japan.
The MOMO-2 rocket, developed by Interstellar Technologies, was launched in Taiki town on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. It was supposed to reach as high as 100 kilometers (62 miles) into space.
Television footage showed that the 10-meter (33-foot) pencil rocket lifted only slightly from its launch pad before dropping to the ground, disappearing in a fireball. Footage on NHK public television showed a charred rocket lying on the ground.
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