LughOne of the world's biggest wind turbine makers says their new 'double-turbine' 50MW offshore wind turbines will be half the cost, or less, of today's cheapest offshore wind power.
A new study of 25,000 adults shows that hope is one of the most powerful predictors of well-being & flourishing - and crucially, it is a skill that can be learned and improved on throughout life.
A new study of 25,000 adults shows that hope is one of the most powerful predictors of well-being & flourishing - and crucially, it is a skill that can be learned and improved on throughout life. - Futurology Today
Hope might seem like an intangible thing to measure, but we can certainly measure the lack of it. Rising suicides and opioid deaths are just one facet of that. Many people in the Western world see their part of the world as declining and getting more dystopian. Hope seems to be in decline. Odd, as if society were reconfigured, there’s the possibility of abundance ahead with robots and AI doing most of the work. Maybe it’s a case of the darkest hour is just before the dawn? Hope and the Life Course: Results From a Longitudinal Study of 25,000 Adults [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.70041?]
Alastair SomervilleGood critique of some poisonous strands of #Futurology. Nowism is interesting in need for hope, today.
Wrote about Presentology acuity.design/presentology/ this week
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Presentology – Acuity Design
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A Chinese company is selling a humanoid robot for $1,370. Will most future humanoid robots be widely owned by everybody?
FuturologistPeople with blindness can read again after retinal implant: An electronic eye implant has restored vision in people with blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration.
voidxWoman has new multiple sclerosis treatment that doctors say could be 'game-changer'
Miguel Afonso Caetano"AGI will not think as subjects think. It will not consolidate awareness around a single point of view or translate order through will. It will sense and respond through diffusion, an oceanic logic of feedback rather than decree. In it, cognition ceases to be a mirror of dominion and becomes a process of perpetual adjustment. The model is not the monarch, not even the polis, but the weather system: intelligence as circulation, memory as pattern, agency as the equilibrium of flows.
This world breaks the ancient analogy between knowing and owning. The intelligence to come does not legislate reality; it modulates it. It has no “I,” only gradients of attention. Its power lies not in decision but in adaptation. The machine’s awareness, if it can be called that, is a choreography of processes seeking coherence in motion; more tide than testimony.
To enter this epoch is to accept that the logic of Being has finally been outpaced by the logic of relation, motion, and kinetics."
https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/after-lack-how-to-think-agi-without-a-throne/
After Lack: How to Think AGI Without a Throne
After Lack: How to Think AGI Without a Throne We don’t need a sovereign Subject in the head to explain thought. Intelligence isn’t a monarch issuing decrees from a neural palace; it’s a turbulence …
Do AIs think differently in different languages? What I learned by asking chatbots questions in Chinese, Arabic, and Hindi.
RewindAgainAmazon unveils AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers
Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents | Job losses could shave 30 cents off each item purchased by 2027.
