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Culture With Government Changes

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The key ingredient that our politics is missing in 2019 is culture change. We sniff around culture innovations. For example we know that if the world made a single culture change and the world went vegetarian overnight that this would benefit both climate change and food supply. Ask yourself this question. Would the youth of the day be better off lobbying culture to change to adopt vegetarian diets so as to reduce climate change or be better off by lobbying governments to reduce climate change? We sniff around culture innovations. Should be ban single-use plastic straws? Reporting on the huge island of plastic waste floating around the pacific is almost daily news. What is missing in 2019 is culture change that activates citizens. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country - or planet. It is obvious that climate change and other governing problems of the day require cultural change and yet no governing mechanism to date has provided

Facebook Mind Reading

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Facebook Mind Reading "Facebook is trying to read people’s thoughts, and no one’s ready for the consequences." Irreni World Scale is ready. The article with the above headline regarding Facebook mind-reading on my timeline annoyed me so much that I added a comment: A better headline would be, "Science fiction predictions and moral suggestions ignored yet again regarding emerging technology." Read a book. You may not know this but there are only a handful of Dewey Decimal fiction classifications. Fiction is just fiction. Science Fiction was carved out after the advent of the atomic bomb. American leaders wanted to be prepare for emerging technology in the future by sponsoring science speculating about such topics as cybernetics and genetic engineering before they came to be reality. Perhaps the best known example of this is Isaac Asimov's rules for robots. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to h