Hope you write about a character who is possessed by that Perl Spirit someday.
]]>http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-04-27/piketty-rickety-government-complicity Summary: Inequality is bad and getting worse. The cause is central banks and governments that are essentially owned by the wealthy and powerful. Capital grows due to the difference between real interest rates and actual businesss returns. If real interest rates are low or negative capital grows effortlessly.
As for Fusion: A small aneutronic fusion generator may be possible: Crowdfunding coming soon: http://www.focusfusion.org/
]]>So bring on the minds! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_(The_Culture)
Surely there will be some cults who have given up hope that humans will ever sort out their issues and are now working on creating true conscious AI to justly rule the world.
Which of course brings about the question: How do we know that minds so created will be friendly ?
We will boot them up in Simulation mode and give them a virtual planet to run. They will not be told that they are running in a simulation. The minds that turn evil in the simulation will be deleted..... Hold on maybe that's what we are? All those tales about behaving well in this world or else...
]]>Assume that we are an organization like Contact (The Culture books by Iain M Banks).
We are genuinely looking for a strategy for intervening in unpleasant societies that are an affront to all decent folk.
What lessons would we learn from the interventions in Iraq,Afghanistan and Libya?
What strategy will work if we wish to improve life in N Korea ? Syria ?
]]>