Post No.: 0936 Furrywisepuppy says: Privacy isn’t a solo concern since we’re deeply enmeshed in other people’s networks. You can be careful with your own data but your friends, family, work colleagues and anyone you accept into your … Read More
Post No.: 0929 Furrywisepuppy says: Some businesses collect huge amounts of our personal data. They apparently do so to give us a more customised and personally relevant experience (e.g. better targeted adverts). But some private corporations collect as … Read More
Post No.: 0914 Furrywisepuppy says: Capitalism has raised many people out of poverty. But materialism and excessive consumption bring environmental problems like resource depletion and pollution. You could argue that Soviet-style socialism eventually decimates itself but unfettered capitalism … Read More
Post No.: 0866 Furrywisepuppy says: The ‘tragedy of the commons’ occurs despite, or because of, individuals behaving rationally and with self-interests. By doing so, shared common resources, like trees from public forests, fish from the sea, or clean … Read More
Post No.: 0845 Furrywisepuppy says: Electric vehicles (EVs) are gradually replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles because of the environmental benefits if they’re charged from renewable energy sources. That’s brilliant! But investment into EV infrastructure (e.g. more … Read More
Post No.: 0832 Furrywisepuppy says: Doing business inevitably involves taking risks. But it’s not about taking risks – it’s about reducing them, whilst achieving the same aims, where possible. Above all – never risk what you’re not willing … Read More
Post No.: 0807 Furrywisepuppy says: Design and technology affects us individually and as a society – our lifestyles, jobs, potentials, pastimes, cultures, economics, environments, and thus politics. Automation, usually via technology, can de-skill us, which is fine … Read More
Post No.: 0764 Furrywisepuppy says: If one is young enough, even severe brain tissue loss and surgery can be recovered from and one can still subsequently live a decent independent life – and this is due to neuroplasticity. … Read More
Post No.: 0756 Furrywisepuppy says: Many people from much older generations were raised to be frugal, and they still care about saving every scrap of paper and not wasting food because they lived though times of scarcity and … Read More
Post No.: 0722 Furrywisepuppy says: The most sustainable thing for the environment when it comes to clothes is to buy good enough items, then to wear them as many times as possible. Fix any bits of damage … Read More
Post No.: 0673 Furrywisepuppy says: It’s environmentally unfriendly to think that one must get new stuff when one’s existing stuff works fine; whether it’s phones, clothes, home improvements, cars, etc.. Too many people look for any miniscule … Read More
Post No.: 0624 Fluffystealthkitten says: Some might disagree with this but deep learning (DL) is a subfield of artificial neural networks (ANN), which in turn is a subfield of machine learning (ML), which in turn is a subfield … Read More
Post No.: 0574 Furrywisepuppy says: On the subject of trying to predict what the world’s human population will be in the year 2100, we looked at one hypothesis in Post No.: 0565 that stated that it’ll naturally stabilise … Read More
Post No.: 0565 Furrywisepuppy says: Predicting the long-range future is always difficult, as mentioned in other kinds of contexts before, and this is no different when it comes to predicting what the world’s human population size will be … Read More
Post No.: 0550 Furrywisepuppy says: With ever-advancing technologies, the fleshy human meatbag will increasingly become the limiting factor. For example, vehicles could potentially drive at much higher average speeds on the roads safely… as long as every single … Read More
Post No.: 0493 Furrywisepuppy says: As chewed over in Post No.: 0480 – designers, engineers and inventors (and those who employ or fund them) bear huge ethical responsibilities. It’s not just about considering the life cycle and ecological … Read More
Post No.: 0480 Furrywisepuppy says: We can have different kinds of relationships with tech – they can be in us (e.g. nanotechnology capsules), between us (e.g. phones when making calls), added to us (e.g. prosthetic limbs), be like … Read More
Post No.: 0474 Fluffystealthkitten says: Although considered a ‘trace gas’ in the Earth’s atmosphere, there’s a lot of carbon dioxide in the air and depleting the amount of trees and forests on the ground is not a good … Read More
Post No.: 0467 Fluffystealthkitten says: Carbon offsetting strategies have their supporters and critics. For their supporters, it seems to make logical sense that it’s okay to release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane and … Read More
Post No.: 0438 Furrywisepuppy says: Indium for touchscreens, rhenium for jet turbines, neodymium for magnets in motors, lithium for batteries, helium for MRI scanners… These things we need (or want) for our technological civilisation are all rare and … Read More
