Once again they have produced a collection of trends for the year ahead, in their "Global Trends Report".The possibilities of mind control seem alarming ( point 6) as do the implications of growing income inequality (point 10).
Labs worldwide are opening up the vast possibilities of mind control and artificial intelligence, shape-shifting materials and self-organizing nanobots, cyborgs and enhanced humans, space exploration, and high-speed, intelligent transportation.
So as my parents' special day approaches yet again, I wish you all the opportunity -- whatever your age -- to explore the endless and timeless possibilities of mind, body, and heart that are available to you beyond what you've heretofore thought of as age-appropriate.
If dualism is taken to be true, it is then not illogical to entertain the possibility of the mind surviving the death of the body, a basic tenet of many religions.
A flat tax would eliminate the possibility of clever minds setting up complicated tax-avoidance schemes.
Rand's insistence that everything in reality is particular has been taken by critics as undermining the possibility of the mind-independent similarities needed to ground the objectivity of concepts (for how can two objects be similar if there's nothing real that they share in common?).
How could I improve on the possibilities of the mind, I asked myself.
Engaging in drug use for the purpose of artmaking presents altering perspectives to an existing platform, essentially expanding the possibilities of the mind.
This possibility of mining the mind (or at least informationally rich structural aspects of the mind) can be potentially used not only to infer mental preferences, but also to prime, imprint or trigger those preferences.
Not out of the realm of possibility, mind you.
