My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last TRUE luxury. To be able to LIVE your LIFE as you choose without having everyone COMMENT on it or know about.

The popular DYSTOPIAN vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart COMPUTER will create its own GOALS and have its own will and will USE its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own GAME.

I've met secular humanists who GREW up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their FIRST EXPOSURE to a scientific WAY of viewing the world.

One of the THINGS about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The CONTINENT in place itself MADE you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too SOFT. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough EXPERIENCE.

Yet SINCE the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our COUNTRY's current or future ENERGY NEEDS.

Creative MINDS have always been KNOWN to survive any kind of BAD training.

Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be SHORT or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being HUGE is a COUPLE of DECADES.

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media EVENT on the PLANET. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, EVERYBODY listens.

The EXTERNAL appearance of any construction PROJECTS that are CREATED during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the SENSIBILITY of our time.