“Wilson has observed, "We are not as gods. We're not yet sentient or intelligent enough to be much of anything." Paul Kingsnorth, a British writer and activist, has put it this way: "we are as gods, but we have failed to get good at it.. We are Loki, killing the beautiful for fun. We are Saturn, devouring our children... Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something.”
Source: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
“Think of one thing you can do that will make a big difference in what you are trying to achieve.”
Source: Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living
“PGD has also been used for other controversial purposes, such as the birth if so-called savior siblings, destined from the moment of implantation not only to live their own lives, but also to serve as organ or cell donors for a sibling.”
Source: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome.”
Source: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
“All the wonderful things in the world. All the ways life was better even if the world wasn't. This stutter-step of disaster after natural disaster was just a blip next to LED lights, driverless cars, a possible end to poverty through gene-edited crops.”
Source: Hummingbird Salamander
“We were a bunch of primates who had gotten together and, against all odds, built a wondrous civilization. But paradoxically- tragically- our creation's complexity had now far outstripped our brains' ability to manage it.”
Source: Upgrade
“The next renaissance won’t be painted - it will be programmed. Not with brushes and pigments, but with data and consciousness. Not on canvas, but across minds - human and artificial alike. This is not the Information Age. It’s the Age of Integration - where intelligence, intention, and imagination converge.”
Source: The Augmented Self: How Technology is Rewriting What It Means to Be Human | A Journey Beyond AI, Automation, and the Illusion of Replacement
“The knowledge worker of tomorrow will not be defined by what they know, but by how consciously they use intelligence. AI will handle the repetition. Humans will handle the realization.”
Source: WHEN PURPOSE LEARNS TO CODE: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Storytelling Inquiry into the Future of Moral Agency in AI. | Stories and Theories from the Seven Dimensions of Artificial Intention.
“In a world where AI can replicate intelligence, attention is the last frontier of humanity. Whoever controls your attention controls your reality. And whoever masters their attention controls their evolution.”
Source: DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness
“Deprogramming the Digital Self teaches the skill every professional will need in the next decade -Conscious Navigation.”
Source: DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness