Friday, 23 January 2015

New Grammar of Living Tweets...daily @pkd603







. The middle path is best. For good health, economies, companies. Xtreme competition, activity not desirable. Om.

. The X files back. Greatest ever serial. The truth is out there. Trust no one. The ETs r here. We r d aliens. Robots.

Noise vs. Nature: How We're Upsetting America's Soundscapes . Noise, lights & dforesting killing earth. V r murderers

Surreal times. Robots. xtreme cli-fi. Hi debt GDP. Violence. Faith wars. Terror. Hyper competition. Lo oil & com prices. Ecos imploding.



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Get Ready for $10 Oil . pricing is relative. asset bubbles incl currencies & debt. Fin & eco crises. AC ecos in ICU.

Winter spreads its reach from NE to South. truly getting monstrous. Boston record snows. Xtreme climate intensifying.




Capitalism now hi over leveraging by corporates banks nations individuals. Surreal future is now. Debt @ -ve int rates. Future imploding.

Dark pools of trading & shadow banking bldg up systemic risks. Next fin meltdown not far. Complex securitization thru chain of transactions.

Era of lo & -ve int rates. Europe 2 like Japan entered -ve int rates. Apple boroing from SZ. MS long term bonds @ abt 2.5%. Imploding ecos.
























Brain-2-brain communication a reality. How we did it . Limitless. Human endeavor crosses all imagination. Singularity.

 Climate change is lifting Iceland – and it could mean more volcanic eruptions . hurtle into anthropocene meltdown...



Gold only hope in global roller coaster casino of currencies, commodities, esp oil, GDPs. Mounting debt. Money decline. Inflation risk.



Ocean heat content climbing so quickly that tracking chart 'broke' via . exponential rise in past 5 years.
the idea of the future being different from the present
is so repugnant to our conventional thought, that we resist. Keynes, 1937

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Thursday, 22 January 2015

2030…robotesque future is now….

the surreal future is now. driver-less cars. 3D printing. Holograms. drones. billions glued to touch screen devices. all connected to the cloud. algorithms in cloud dictating our lives. Zombie like we make our moves. Humanoids melding of flesh and prosthetics. Chips implanted in our bodies controlling us…wirelessly connected to the cloud. Comics and sci-fi… fact and fiction blur into a hyper-reality.

The invasion of technology into our lives over the past two decades is accelerating. We are all getting sucked into its innards. The monster is pervading into each spore of our existence and lives. There is no escape. Nowhere to hide from its all-seeing baleful gaze. Even the most desolate beach or desert is not safe from prying eyes with the skies interspersed with thousands of satellites. These watchers of the skies follow our minutest movements. Even in the urban sprawls the omnipresent surveillance cameras are tracking all our movements a la Orwellian big brother.

The hurtle towards our robotesque future is accelerating at a frightening pace. The telescoping of time is indeed terrifying especially for us born in the early 1950s. the rate of change is increasing exponentially. Already in the advanced society of Japan people are buying human size robot dolls as companions. Robot pets are also in vogue. As more people in developed economies are tending to stay single, robot companions will catch on. In the movie “Her” last year a person has a virtual girlfriend. Given the time most people spend online, it is perhaps convenient to have virtual and otherwise friends and companions online.

Humans are also becoming more androgynous and asexual. With increasing acceptance of same sex associations, there will be a gamut of multi sex associations and surrogate parents. In due course cloning may replace to some extent normal reproduction. Possible scenarios could be like in the movie “The Boys from Brazil”.

As nano biotechnology is advancing, there are implants which will monitor and control body functions. Medical science is also reaching a stage where cancer is likely to be conquered and through advanced regeneration of cells man may become immortal. Raymond Kurzweil has forecast that is a very likely future with the next 20 years or so.

In order to make best of land shortage, there are plans afoot to build mammoth skyscraper cities. These vertical urban wonders will have indoor farms and recycling of waste and air at the lower floors. These are likely to be manned by a worker class who will stay in cramped hovel kind of accommodations. Then these cities will have offices, support providers, health care, residential and recreation spaces. These urban sprawls will self sufficient in energy, water, food, economically. This reminds me of the amazing movie “1900” by Bertolucci where a person was born on a ship, lives there his entire life without ever stepping on terra firma, and finally dies on the ship.

Modern man will certainly be less religious than his forbears. Starting with Neitchze’s “Is God Dead”, a major portion of the western world does not believe in God. But for vast swathes of the globe, religion is opium of the masses, for some the addiction runs deep to the point of fanaticism and responding with terror when wronged. This deep religious schism will only deteriorate. In the decades to come this divide will only deepen and become perennial sources of global conflict. Robotic godless surreal humankind pitched against medieval forces with weapons of mass destruction.

The interesting part of the future would be how a super evolved race interacts with the backward low tech masses along with coping with economic collapses which would be staved off through highly controlled air conditioned economies in ICUs. But the biggest challenge for the neo-robotic societies would be their ability to withstand the ravages of extreme climate changes and cataclysmic geo-climate upheavals.


Indeed the decades 2030 to 2050 would be beyond all our present comprehension and forecast models of the world’s future. Future shock will indeed intensify and compound exponentially. Mankind will have Faust like sacrificed its soul upon the alter of technological progress. 
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Saturday, 17 January 2015

widening schisms in a bipolar globe...

during the past century, number of people killed by genocides at 100 mn is 4 times that killed in regular wars. Some of the notable genocides are Congolese by Belgians around 1900, Stalin's purges of 1930s, Nanjing, the Holocaust, Hindus in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Boko Haram...the list goes on...

now with terror raising its ugly head, its difficult to forecast the shape of things to come. there are so many flash points about to happen. the battle lines are drawn. worst case scenarios are India Pakistan flare ups which are on tinder-hooks with 230 nuclear missiles trained on each side. crazy scene now with so many terror groups in Pakistan getting closer the the access of nukes. several terror groups are bragging possession of dirty bomb technology all over the world.

yemen and syria hotbeds of terror spawning  prolifically. Europe alone is supposed to have been the sourcing ground for about 3400 recruits. recruits are pouring in from all over the world in response the clarion muezzin call for jihad. the western world unrelenting in its upholding of its so called freedom of press. historically france had colonised swathes of africa to its advantage exploiting the riches of africa and enjoyed the large pool of cheap labour. germany too became a magnet for millions of turks doing menial work so wonderfully depicted in fassbinder's movies. us too has its share of immigrants.

though the world is a melting pot, but true integration of diverse races is a chimera every where. the racist and conditioned world never looses an opportunity to maintain its man and economic made social structures in place. rampant discrimination runs wild everywhere including countries like india where higher caste highly conditioned people (like people all over the world) condescendingly treat the poorer strata of society. indeed its a bipolar globe with sharp schisms tearing asunder its tenuous fabric.

the clock is indeed ticking.

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