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The Anarchist and the Hockey Stick
experimental-history.com
The neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard
... See moreDaniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
In this age of utopian technologies, we can design mechanical limbs for amputees and chemically engineer happiness for depressives. But should we? From the fluoride in our water to genetically modified babies, scientific advances pose complex new ethical questions. We ask discuss the major bioethical issues of our time. Is philosophy braced for... See more
Emily Jackson • Lse Festival 2019 | Brave New World [Audio]
Platform Capitalism
Analysis of capitalism's evolution amid economic downturns highlights how digital technologies and data extraction through platform-based business models—monopolized by major tech firms—reshape contemporary capitalist economies and labor relations.
mudancatecnologicaedinamicacapitalista.wordpress.com
Let me tell you a story. It'll end up at the current tech-bio and protein design scene.
But the story starts about 25 years earlier.
Did you know that, commercially, the human genome project precipitated the end and not the start of a genomics boom? 1/
Rohit Singhx.comThe thesis that we are all nothing more than vehicles for a number of “selfish genes” has accordingly entered deeply into the simian gabble of academic life, where together with materialism and moral relativism it now seems as self-evident as the law of affirmative action.