Questions NOV 17

KSR -p.386 (ch.77)

1. Is the LA flood scenario plausible? Is LA going to have to be replaced? 279 Does the rest of the world really despise "the dream factory"? 286
2. Is "a whole new internet ecology" like YourLock, Internet 3.0, possible? 281
3. Is going to Mars a ridiculous "fantasy of escape"? 289
4. If the central banks didn't agree to fund an open-access "carbon coin," could something like YourLock make it happen? 291
5. Is Badim right about "assholes" and meliorists? 296
6. Is narcissism a major problem in the world today? 298 (see "Instagram therapy...")
7. What would you call the "fever killing our glaciers"? 303
8. Is war in the future likely to be "invisible and online for the most part"? 313
9. Why does near-future Switzerland have seven presidents? 314
10. Is the global financial system so complex that even the people running it don't understand it? 315
11. Is KSR endorsing the assassination of "the rentier class" ("the people who make money simply by owning something that others need...")? 321
12. Will blockchain technology really drive illegal tax dodges into non-existence? 333
13. Was KSR prophetic in predicting "the triumphant return of the so-called Lula Left, now also called Clean Brazil"? 343
14. Is growth "the world's current reigning religion"? 345 Can a planetary consciousness give rise to a new and better one? 358
15. Will it take a heatwave killing hundreds of thousands of Americans to correct the cognitive error of thinking that catastrophe only happens to other people? 349
16. Does the developing nation "over the horizon of time" seem real to you? 352
17. More soon...