Politically, it doesn't matter, though. Plenty of our friends in America will have heard the claim, believed it and not been exposed to the other point of view. It will have entered the collecti… (View Post)

It's 1984 vs. Brave New World. One a dystopia forced from above, the other a dystopia embraced from below. Still both dystopian. (View Post)

It's what bothers me about the "using AI for routine stuff and keep humans for the bits requiring expertise" model. How do humans accumulate expertise without doing a lot of the routin… (View Post)

Apparently not. After all, other areas have been through the process in a piecemeal way before... The process of changing from a two-tier to a unitary local government system is normally referred to … (View Post)

Yes, but not for long. (View Post)