Futurist Alert: Kurzweil's Exponential Growth Proliferates Side-Effects

Sam Ghandchi

http://www.ghandchi.com/2555-exponential-growth-side-effects-english.htm

آگهباش آینده نگر: رشد پرشتاب کرزوایل، عوارض جانبی را تکثیر می کند
http://www.ghandchi.com/2555-exponential-growth-side-effects.htm 

Ray Kurzweil (1), the prominent Visionary Futurist of our times, has shown us the exponential growth in all realms of life, even Accelerated Returns in food production (2). But exponential growth proliferates side-effects, not just in fields such as genetic engineering where the side-effects of Gene Therapy and GMO have become serious impediments to their advancements (3), but even simple chemical products like Roundup weed killers are facing problems of side-effects such as lymphoma of farmers. In the past, futurists like Robert Jungk (4) had to face issues of not considering side-effects of nuclear energy in the aftermath of Hiroshima tragedy (5). Today we can say the proliferation of side-effects due to exponential growth is in every realm of human life, and needs to be tackled by all modern futurists (6) no matter what their field of focus may be, as humanity is approaching Kurzweil's Technological Singularity (7). In fact, this perspective is a deeper meaning of futurism (8).

Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,

Sam Ghandchi
IRANSCOPE.COM

http://www.ghandchi.com/index2.html
March 24, 2019

Footnotes:

 
1. Ray Kurzweil

https://goo.gl/bsQwyB

ری کرزوایل

https://goo.gl/NkXAdV

2. Accelerated returns in food production
http://www.kurzweilai.net/accelerated-returns-in-food-production

بازگشت پرشتاب در توليد غذا
http://www.ghandchi.com/710-AcceleratedReturns.htm

3. Predictive Analytics of Gene-Editing Side-Effects Beats Cancer, but!
http://www.ghandchi.com/1814-beat-cancer-english.htm
پیش بینی عوارض جانبیِ تغییر ژنی، سرطان را شکست خواهد داد، اما!
http://www.ghandchi.com/1814-beat-cancer.htm

4. Robert Jungk

رابرت یونگک
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jungk

5. آنچه در بحث رابرت یونگک و هیروشیما فراموش شد
http://www.ghandchi.com/1994-robert-jungk.htm

6. Modern Futurism
http://www.ghandchi.com/347-FuturismEng.htm
آینده نگری مدرن
http://www.ghandchi.com/347-Futurism.htm

7. About Singularity

https://goo.gl/cVjmBD

درباره سینگولاریته

https://goo.gl/6U3FYt

8. What is Futurism? (in Persian)

آینده نگری چیست؟
http://www.ghandchi.com/468-AyandehnegariChist.htm

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