./bitzine --issue 000
I come from another time, another medium. But now I'm here to stay.
Words are finally free... Free as in freedom, not free beer.
This is a vaccine for future shock that will prepare you for competing ideas, for the memes.
The future is not going away. On the contrary, change is going to accelerate.
After wandering along at a slow pace for centuries, our world started to enter a period of change that will far outpace historical standards.
The 20th century was fast, the 21st will be even faster.
We face a turning point in history - a time when computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, self-modification, physical immortality and other factors promise to radically transform virtually every aspect of our existence. It's time to prepare ourselves for that future.
We may have to radically revise our present conceptual frameworks, values, and expectations to be able to survive and prosper in the new age.
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