Elisha Angeles English 102 2/2/13 Essay Which Sounds Better‚ Heaven or Hell? Which is more Likely? Radical Evolution by Joel Garreau has chapters on two scenarios of the future of humans. Both Heaven and Hell Scenarios have "The Curve" involved‚ but the dangers of the GRIN technologies make the Hell Scenario more likely. Rise of technology will lead to the downfall of humanity due to Bioengineered Disease Agents/Weapons. Supporting ideas for this topic are: threat of humans creating dangerous
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“Radical Evolution” In Joel Garreau’s book “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds‚ Our Bodies- and What It Means to Be Human” Garreau discusses the concept “singularity” along with views from Vernon Vinge‚ Ray Kurzweil and others. Singularity is this drastic change that will take place during a period of accelerating change in particular with technology. “The Curve implies one of the all-time changes in the rules. Those who study it call it “The Singularity”. (p.67)
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enough to give them mobility and connect them to their loved ones‚" said Professor Mark Armstrong‚ the director of Bluesky Design Group. (Pike) For sure‚ exponential development in technology is blurring the boundary of impossibility. In Radical Evolution‚ the readers can observe two diverging ideas with the side worshipping this development and trying to let people approach the sphere of the God with it -Heaven Scenario- and another side urging the demolition of humanity and pessimistic future
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Summary of Prevail and Transcend Scenario In chapter six of Radical Evolution‚ author Joel Garreau shows through various interviews and examples that even though technology may be rising on an exponentially increasing Curve‚ humans may still be able to change the effects of technological advance in unpredictable ways. Deemed the Prevail scenario‚ it is also characterized by humans slowing down once-viewed inevitable change viewed as negative and speeding up positive change. Another great theme
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In his book "The Nine Nations of North America"‚ Joel Garreau argues that United States is not really a nation of 50 states‚ but part of a continent of nine nations. Garreau finds that each of the nine nations of North America has its own capital‚ its own peculiar economy‚ and its own distinctive web of influence. A few of the nations are allies but many are adversaries. He believes that everything from politics to urban planning needs to be redesigned to match the evolving regional sensibilities
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people’s war‚ waged by common colonists with the courage and the zeal to rise up against the more heavily armed and better trained British royal army‚ promoting a radical notion of equality. However‚ the extent to which the American revolution can be deemed “radical” is debatable because in the aftermath of the revolution‚ benefits of this radical notion of equality was exclusive to white males‚ demonstrated by the continual oppression of black slaves in the South‚
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Induced Muscle Damage. Free Radicals Induce Muscle Damage and Inflammation Research evidence proves that free radicals play an important role in muscle damage and inflammation after strenuous exercise. Dietary antioxidants are able to assist in the protection against free radical damage and the prevention of cellular damage. Free radicals are formed when oxygen interacts with certain molecules forming atoms or groups that have an odd number of electrons. Once free radicals are formed they can start
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Members of the Radical Republican Party wanted the abolition of slavery and equality for freed slaves. Members also went against the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Acts. There were many well-known members of the party that became a very powerful force in congress in the late 19th century such as: Thaddeus Stevens‚ Charles Sumner‚ Benjamin Butler‚ Fredrick Douglass‚ and Benjamin Wade. Several members were appointed chairman of important committees. Thaddeus Stevens was appointed chairman
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Radical Islam Subculture is an ethnic‚ regional‚ economic‚ or social group exhibiting characteristic patterns of behavior sufficient to distinguish it from others within an embracing culture or society (Merriam-Webster dictionary). Radical Islam is an extreme form of Islam that is a cultural-social ideology which dominates all aspects of the believer’s lives; a form of Islam dedicated to the conquest of the world by any means possible (the clarion project). I have chosen to examine this subculture
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RADICAL FEMINISM http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/nichols2.htm We can further understand such differences by looking more extensively at that political position known as radical feminism. In part‚ radical feminism was created by women who had been active in NOW and were dissatisfied with what they perceived of as NOW’s conservatism. Thus in 1967 at the annual meeting of NOW subsequent to the one in which the above demands were formulated‚ a group of New York women
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