Future
I believe in innovation and education, not so much in discourse any more (Habermas). Kant is obviously right telling us to think before we talk. But what happens, when people stop thinking? Orwell and others have warned us without any success: The Brave New World has become reality (Huxley). 1984 was a well meant warning, today mostly unknown. SOMA is real and Netflix and Amazon are much worse. Why? The Mother of all questions. Discourse has more or less become an intellectual Elfenbein (Ivory) Exercise, not possible any more. Aufklärung? No. What for? Kant asked his readers to think for themselves. Well meant, the opposite of good. Only good intentions đź‘Ť The new agenda is Vance, Trump and others like Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg. Algorithms and powerful marketing tools. No chance at all for consumers. Old Joe is still picking cotton, while the rich get richer. Why? 8% on a billion per annum is a lot of dough. You do not get rich by working hard. Only money attracts money. Like a magnet. Simply good. Different. The Inevitable Companion: Rituals for Embracing AI Over the Next Decade Subheading: What We Believe May Not Matter—But How We Receive It Does Prologue: The Threshold of Inevitability “What we think or believe does not matter at all: It will happen anyway.” This is not a surrender—it is a summons. The next ten years…