Articles by MIT Technology Review
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A Quantum Experiment Suggests There’s No Such Thing as Objective Reality
MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.
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Keynes Was Wrong – Gen Z Will Have It Worse
Malcolm Harris | MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – The founder of macroeconomics predicted that capitalism would last for approximately 450 years. That’s the length of time between 1580, when Queen Elizabeth invested Spanish gold stolen by Francis Drake, and 2030, the year by which John Maynard Keynes assumed humanity would have solved the problem of our needs and moved on to higher concerns. Instead of never-ending progress, today’s kids face a world on the edge of collapse. What next?
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We Aren’t Terrified Enough about Losing the Amazon
James Temple | MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
26 Aug 2019 – With fires raging in the Brazilian Amazon this year, media reports have resurfaced a scary scenario known as “the Amazon dieback.” Scientists aren’t sure if there’s a tipping point, or how close we are to it – but it would be “absolutely catastrophic” if we cross it.
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Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. Should they stop before it’s too late? “You can do it. But there really isn’t a medical reason. People say, well, we don’t want children born with this, or born with that—but it’s a completely false argument and a slippery slope toward much more unacceptable uses.”
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