technology

Even if one doesn’t like industrialization and its consequences, one cannot escape the reality that what preceded modernity was materially, intellectually, and culturally close to zero for nearly everyone. Something is surely amiss when modern critics, enjoying all the material comforts and conveniences as well as the cultural amenities available at the push of a button, venture to dismiss modernity as if it were something even one in a thousand of them would give up.

Sock 'em robots, Falcon launch and predatory advertising + this day in history w/Joseph McCarthy and our song of the day by BNQT on your Morning Monarchy for May 2, 2017.

Let’s just admit it: If all GPS devices suddenly stopped working, there would be a lot of lost and stranded people on the road. Today, adults may have learned how to read a map, but most kids haven’t the foggiest idea of how to accomplish this task. Researchers are pointing out that without putting this skill to use, we’re starving parts of our brain from much-needed exercise.

In The Circle, the totality of the problem is that private enterprise, and actually just one company with a nearly complete monopoly, is the source of all problems. Sadly, the movie just ends up collapsing into a classic anti-capitalist screed that wildly exaggerates the power of business while completely ignoring the actual real-world problem of government intrusion in the digital space.
 

"All things are naked and open to the eyes of God. Everyone of us will soon be able to see and cast judgement upon every other." It's called "The Circle" - and we're already inside it.

(ANTIMEDIA)  — In an exclusive interview, head of MGT Capital Investments and former presidential candidate John McAfee spoke with Anti-Media Thursday night about an issue at the forefront of many people’s minds these days: privacy.
McAfee, a pioneer in the realm of antivirus software, has a new product coming to market later this year that takes on the subject of personal privacy with an item that’s become a significant part of most people’s daily lives — smartphones.

Technology is giving us incredible opportunities for advancement in every way, every day. It's constantly adapting to our new ways of life, and determining our new ways of life.
Where is evolution in all this? Do we get the benefits of 50 push-ups with an app? No. But with all this tech and science we have now, we've discovered some ways to keep our bodies healthy without hitting the gym or jumping on the latest diet trend. Here are five of them.

Life is awesome. In fact, it's so awesome so constantly that we've gotten used to it, and whenever one thing goes wrong, we start complaining and thinking that everything is suddenly terrible. Thus we have the phrase "First World problems." Naturally we also complain about things that are genuinely bad, but often, those bad things are not as bad as we think they are, or as bad as they used to be.

(ANTIMEDIA) In Baltimore, there’s a self-driving machine that’s pulling garbage from the river — and they call it Mr. Trash Wheel. That’s because, quite literally, it’s a water wheel being powered by the river’s current.

Every living human being dreams of a flying car. Why? Is it the Jetsons? Is it the exhaustion from the traffic jams during which we look up and see the empty space and somehow know for sure that we should be there rather than glued to the black pavement? Is it just a romantic attachment to the idea that flying represents progress?