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If liberalism, nationalism, Islam, or some novel creed wishes to shape the world of the year 2050, it will need not only to make sense of artificial intelligence, Big Data algorithms, and bioengineering but also to incorporate them into a new and meaningful narrative.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
ESSENTIALISM. People belong to groups, and there’s a natural human tendency to make generalizations about them: Germans are orderly, Californians are laid-back. These generalizations occasionally have some basis in reality. But they are all false to some degree, and they are all hurtful to some degree. Essentialists don’t recognize this. Essentiali
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It’s political and it’s cultural: At some point in the last few years, a feeling has set in that the future is being foreclosed
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
How the ‘wonks’ of public policy and the ‘geeks’ of tech can get together
techcrunch.com
Liberals suffer incurably from naïveté, the stupidity of the good heart.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
The liberal story was the story of ordinary people. How can it remain relevant to a world of cyborgs and networked algorithms?
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
