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Opinions in science, science fiction, and fantasy.

Elites Added Layers of Complexity! Now, They are Unable to Manage It.
Complexity is killing us. Right from the laws that govern us to the institutions which enforce them and the courts who adjudicate on them, our world has become so complex that it is virtually (literally as well as figuratively) impossible to comprehend and manage the mindboggling complexity that is so endemic in our lives. What more, even those who claim to understand complexity and have a grip on how to manage it flounder when confronted with solving problems that arise from complex systems.
By Rammohan Susarla5 years ago in Futurism
Micromanagers Are Trying to Make Us Go Back to the Office
A lot of managers come from a long history of watching their employees’ every move and assuming that they are slacking off the minute they turn their back.
By Ronke Babajide5 years ago in Futurism
Meaningless Speculation: Domesticated Crocodiles?
Domestication is a process that has brought us dogs, cats, some pigeons, barnyard animals, and a variety of plants. There are even arguments that humans themselves show signs of domestication. Thus far, mammals and birds make up the majority of domesticated animals, yet there doesn’t seem to be any commonly known reason to say that crocodilians couldn’t be domesticated. After all, there is anecdotal evidence of friendship between humans and crocodiles already, as well as caimans controversially kept as pets. In order to determine if this is indeed possible, we need to examine what domestication is and what common threads between domesticated animals exist.
By Corwynna5 years ago in Futurism
Try your luck with vision boards
Since I have been proficient at many other forms of mystical pursuits in the past, I decided to try vision boards. I had heard about it multiple times which at this point, having realized that repetition felt like intuitive nudging, that I should give it a whirl.
By Missy Conley5 years ago in Futurism
Reading tarot cards- An insight into the tarot world
Tarot card reading is a type of cartomancy in which practitioners supposedly utilise tarot cards to acquire insight into the past, present, or future. They ask a question, then pull cards and claim to be able to interpret them. A standard tarot deck has 78 cards divided into two groups: the major arcana and the minor arcana.
By Starsgyan5 years ago in Futurism
Beware the Evil Eye When Writing
Before I begin this article, I would like to start by saying I am a fairly spiritual woman who believes in the Law of Attraction, manifestation, witchcraft (I don't practice this) and crystals, etc.
By Shamar M5 years ago in Futurism
The Age of Censorship
Is this the land of the free? I am just not sure anymore. But how could I find out if I wanted to anyway? The slanted news engages in emotional tactics that replace logic.
By C Mandler5 years ago in Futurism
Burning Bright/Come Away, Human Child
(i) Burning Bright I dreamed about the tiger tonight--approach of handlers and veterinary physicians to the great cat into whom, across species, the invisible worldwide celebrity had perilously entered. Some of those managing the beast were young enough to have partied at close range on sun-spackled beaches with mammals, on the whole, more lethal than this cat they observed at a respectful distance, or tranquilized first before nearer approach. Some were old enough to fear far more the infinitesimal creature within, that may make it under sedation a greater threat than it would be awake, charging, thoroughly pissed as perhaps it has every right to be: you nearly eliminate my kind in their natural state but save specimens of us for show; granted, you care for us in these sheltered unnatural places until suddenly we come in contact with a danger unknown in the wild (where with all due modesty, we were for long ages the principal danger, a crown we’ve ceded a good few of your generations now); you lift us for our safety out of a habitat you’ve made inhospitable for us and our prey, and what happens? an invisible enemy, bred by the same genius that makes civilization, war, prisons, discotheques, casinos, air conditioning, jet exhaust, books and films and music and such, bunker style luxury condos and zoos, slips without being seen through these sheltering bars as easily as it leaps across borders from nation to nation, and lays me low. Your safety is another name for danger.
By Martin Heavisides5 years ago in Futurism
I May Be A Leo, But I'd Be L͟i͟o͟n͟ If I Said I Felt Like One
I don't mind those who believe in astrology, horoscopes, and all that zodiac jazz. For me personally, though, it's a belief system that's never really sat well with me.
By Jack Anderson Keane5 years ago in Futurism
In The Stars
“Hey Baby, what’s your sign?!” One of the more common pick-up tropes of the latter twentieth century. Simple enough question … unless of course, you’re asking ME.
By Heather R Weisbarth5 years ago in Futurism
The Bad Idea That Is Time Travel
I think you can point to several moments in your life you wish you could relive or redo. A detail or fact you wish you could see again, correct, or undo in the past, to manipulate the present toward a more self-serving result. Or you're curious about what lies ahead, you go forward in time set on by a question of how your life or society at large will turn out. Given the opportunity to view our lives as well as world history from an outside perspective, knowing you were capable of jumping into any point in time, breathing the era's air, eating their food, or drinking whatever was put in front of you, the temptation to tamper with events would be too hard to ignore, and you'd pay a terrible price for leaving all the things you're familiar with. Perhaps every work of fiction that's covered the theory of time travel tells a certain truth in that messing with nature, always has a generally negative consequence more than just the individual.
By Benjamin Alexander House5 years ago in Futurism
The After Life
When it comes to death many humans are afraid to face the reality of it. Often times humans try to avoid such a topic. There are so many different ways to get your mind off of even the mere thought of death. Weather you are a social lite who drinks and parties from sun up to sun down. Or maybe your a construction worker who puts in over 80 hours a week so that you have no time to think about it. No matter what, that lingering subject will always be in the back of your mind. Death. "When will it happen to me?" "What is it like?" "Why must we go through such a thing?" "I don't want to die."
By PowderPuffAndOther Stuff5 years ago in Futurism