When the presses stopped in 3 iconic magazine covers

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be soon when algorithms and singularity are able to make possible anything we can imagine, including unlimited growth, both economical and intellectual, and the much coveted freedom from labour and other duties only to accomplish peace and equality and an increased source of wealth of whatever nature for all human beings. 'There are beauty horses and working horses,' is a Dutch saying that would be deemed appropriate in times when digitalization has altered the face, race and place of much of what was taken for granted before and the last nuisance one may fear the most is boredom. The end of life and of the division of powers as we knew it, and of institutions such as press, religion and science and of forces such as nationalism and political power have brought about a brave new world in which every human being contributes to an IT-ocracy with uncertain capabilities. A power that we, as humans can only be critical of. Knock on wood. An ant is still an ant, and that's all folks.

1. Rewriting Nature's code - The New Yorker, Jan. 2, 2017

CRISPR or CRISPR-Cas 9 is the name of a gene-editing tool that embodies the science of genetic modification of species. This article describes how Kevin Esvelt , a scholar at MIT University in Massachusetts has been studying the alteration of animals such as white-footed mice and the blowfly to genetically alter them in their DNA to become resistant to diseases such as Lyme disease and Malaria and goes on to suggest that this technology is capable of curing humankind of diseases such as cancer and change the face of humanity and much more than that. 'The only way to conduct an an experiment that could wipe an entire species from the Earth is with complete transparency,' he goes on to say in said article before elaborating on trials that are being held in or have been in the past on territories such Nantucket and Africa to control a number of pests. After a trip to Galapagos led him to read the works of Charles Darwin he became 'fascinated about these complex systems, that constantly evolve, and all in the language of DNA,' which led him to have the desire to to rewrite the genes of organisms to make extremely useful and interesting things. Esvelt has been working under the supervision of David Lui and George Church. Intelligent design has taken on an entirely new meaning, one that threatens to transcend Darwin, because evolution may soon be guided by us, but, as Esvelt claims, 'there is very little openness,' and that is going to have to change.

For me personally, much of this was related to the 'ok-ken-do-effect' that much of us were starting to grasp in the parks and zoos our cities had become in the era of fake news and Trump. One where hipsters and hot-shots of an international kind served as mere scenery or objects to accommodate growth and healthy real-estate in the coffee houses and on the streets of impoverished neighborhoods. A crowd that had somehow managed to get past race, name and descent and in some cases a long-lasting identity. I'd been confronted with the apparent existence of copies and clones on-screen and in-sight that had given room to a new debate on the role, definition, reason and in some cases the necessity of human life in its most attractive form, through sexuality. I don't know if this article is in any way true or related to the changing face of humans and the human-like and it's their advancement, but my suspicion that we were dealing with a major revolution and an acceleration in the abilities of science, biology and IT has been a fascination ever since I'd become a pet myself. Sort of. To date, CRISPR has been gaining increased attention world wide in publications for an international audience that had witnessed the alleged heights and horrors of its capacities that had broken boundaries of international collaboration and redefined borders.

2. Die Weltregierung - Der Spiegel, Feb. 28, 2015

This legacy article has been been one of several that were published at the time to describe the utopia we may be about to enter, a life that has become within reach for most due to advancements in thinking brought about by technology and IT. This iconic and epic cover with the headline 'The goverment of the world,' with the subtitle 'How Silcon Valley is controlling our future' catches the attention on the most influential German press publication at the time and may turn out to be historic, since it presents an elite of new world leaders the revolution of computer technology and its services had brought about in the past decade and their aspirations and philosophies for the betterment of people. These tech prophets and leaders represent corporations and technological services the value of which has transcended the value of Deutsche Bank, and for it's increasing ways in intervening with our daily life and severe breaching of privacy and monopoly laws that we as consumers can only be very critical of. Or as the article questions in the opening paragraph: 'They want to change the world without accepting regulations, must we stop them?'

Google engineer Ray Kurzweil defines singularity as the moment at which human life and computers have become so intertwined that humanity will be catapulted into a new civilization as if by a Big Bang, into a new reality where anything is possible, a chain reaction of new enforcing technologies that transform life beyond the imagination, surpass In conventional thinking on life and extend its duration to enable realities we'd considered to be science fiction before.

Matters of life and upbringing and even about death and the transcendent states we may have between them, such as in dreams. Or a life after death. Too good to be true? Indeed. People have died since and lives have been altered by health crises in which output has been a bit blurry.

Sebastian Thrun has been involved in developing Google Glass and his own company, Udacity, according to the article dated some years back, which he describes as a revolution in education. A field of work that had always been a very slow process, but since the increased use of computers it has as at times become to hard to grasp fully or in detail. Silicon Vally is full of people that want to enable technology and aid life quality in a culture in which no one is afraid to make mistakes. Positive thinking is key here, according to Thrun, because optimism has the ability to change the world and improve life quality.

Peter Thiele was the founder of Paypal and an early investor in Facebook, that later on went on to divide the hundreds of millions of dollars to new innovations and start-ups. In his essay 'The education of a libertarian,' he's described the philosophy of libertarianism and as little state interference as possible as a basis for people to flourish as autonomous beings and brings up the importance of building bridges to find new energy resources in an intelligent way.

Content generation through data collection are mostly known for making bland reads and spammy tweets, but have become increasingly effective in novel methods in which immersion with news as well as other content, such as websites.That is my impression at least made from the content I read and see on devices, which could be completely different from what others read.

The effect of a tunnel or bubble is something to be wary os. In the end we probably all understand the same concepts, but just learn them though different channels and at different speeds. My own bubble was brought about by deciding to rely more on local hearsay and conversations with friends at a time where I had become unemployed and poor, since I had to rely on welfare the past years. A lazy and miserable life in which I'd spend my days drinking beers, chatting on Grindr and watching too much porn videos or engaging in one-on-one cam chats with random strangers. My profession had become obsolete and I had never been really good at it. The latest is that I now receive subtle hints that I should maybe consider deleting my website, something I'm afraid of because it has been the single tool I had used during my working life. Achievements, publications, CV's and education have become of much less importance, judging by the models nd foreign talent that had simply become too competitive. I had enjoyed a gay lifestyle with all it's advantages and indulgences in my bubble. And these very indulgences, male beauty and dicks to be exact, would be responsible for a corrupted way of thinking so great it could end all of humanity, in the worst scenario, or break free from the slavery of labour and give in to a truly open mind in which, indeed, anything is possible. But then, it may be, or as Mariah Carey once sung, 'Baby, it's all in your mind.' Oui c'est bon.

3. Ende der Schonzeit - Frankfurter Allgemeine Woche

This article sort of completes the dystopia that could emerge from a world in which anything is possible, but that all this is in the end ruined by human perversions or indulgences: power, wealth, sex and beauty. (And even bigger dicks) With tech and automatization to booth. A fake prospect or a warning maybe taught to a select audience through the medium of the internet and in particular video's. Ready! And KIT is confusing sometimes.

Time is a factor that could make things even worse, or be a savior in a sum or accumulation of things that has been perfect in telling a story that maybe no one else has heard, if anyone will still care.It wouldn't hurt to feel the consequences of our actions or be able to feel them, if we still believe them. But who is to decide what is a fair balance.

This publication shows that by far the most of tech-giants are US American based, this being (at the time) Google, Apple, Amazon, Googl Alphabet and Berkshire Hathaway. The share of Germany's SAP in the whole is not much, 137 billion dollars or in a percentage: 3.After almost a month, I still don't get acces to my Gmail account. Just too bad.