This is part I of a two-part post on my thoughts on the Polytopia. In this first one, I will aspire to present the challenges we will face in Polytopia. In the next post, I will examine possible vaccines and counterpoints that could be built into the architecture, as well as possible constructive uses that could help all of us...
Words themselves are becoming antiquated. Rarely enough do we even find an
arrangement as worthy as these:
Today, Homo sapiens is faced with a rapid modification of his environment, a transformation for which he is the involuntary collective agent. I am not implying that our species is threatened with extinction or that the “end of the...
Verbatim report, as related to the chairman of the planetary foreign specie relation committee of United Terra Government by the Human ambassador to the HX (The Human/Xims relation henceforth is to be related to as HX relations).
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The Ambassador seemed utterly uncomfortable; he still did not know how to relate the latest from the HX meeting...
The universal power of touch
Eva Scherer is frustrated that people in her adoptive country are afraid of touch. She says New Zealand is a "low touch" culture and she believes that many of the health and social problems experienced by children may stem from an aversion to touching.
Ms Scherer moved to New Zealand from Poland five...