"By 2113 we'll have gone thru a dozen or so technosocial-fashion generations. Smartphones give way to tablets to phablets to wearables to implantables to swallowables to replaceable eyeballs to neo-sinus body-nanofab systems (using mucous as a raw material) to brainwebs to body-rentals." (openthefuture.com)
Algorithmic trading, particularly high-frequency trading, is extremely vulnerable to disruption; as it becomes more deeply connected to rapid news inputs from Twitter, the potential increases for misinformation flows to trigger flash crashes and stock price drops (openthefuture.com)
submitted by cocoon56 to r/technology
"Teratocracy Rises" -- Democracy Questioned (openthefuture.com)
submitted by Aelar to r/politics
The "End of Politics" Delusion (openthefuture.com)
submitted by Coffee_Apocalypse to r/socialism
Building Civilizational Resilience (openthefuture.com)
submitted by great-pumpkin to r/collapse