Homo Deus

The Facebook algorithm predicted the volunteers’ answers based on monitoring their Facebook Likes – which webpages, images and clips they tagged with the Like button.

By the same logic, if some multinational corporation wants to know whether it lives up to its ‘Don’t be evil’ motto, it need only take a look at its bottom line. If it makes loads of money, it means that millions of people like its products,

the question is whether they can choose their desires in the first place.

We have already crossed this line as far as medicine is concerned. In the hospital, we are no longer individuals.

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Jeremy Bentham declared that the supreme good is ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’, and

In order to weigh and balance all these variables and probabilities, the baboon requires far more complicated algorithms than the ones controlling automatic vending machines.

The third threat to liberalism is that some people will remain both indispensable and undecipherable, but they will constitute a small and privileged elite of upgraded humans.

If You Meet the Buddha The

keeping a private diary, having heart-to-heart talks with a good friend and holding democratic elections.