You may not know that Jules Verne wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism.
It was lost for 131 years and only published in 1994.
๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐. ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ passed away on July 19. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues, such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.๐
The Durov arrest is about child pornography, not some grand freedom of speech control ploy. If you canโt see that, youโre so lost in online conspiracies youโve lost all sense of morality. tf1info.fr/justice-faits-โฆ
โฅ๏ธ A team of Senegalese volunteers has arrived in a Valencian village, tirelessly clearing debris. Residents are inspired by their energy, as they work almost nonstop, singing and uplifting those affected โฅ๏ธ
In 2000, China accounted for 6% of global manufacturing.
In 2030, China is projected to account for almost half of all global manufacturing.
This kind of shift is unprecedented in the modern world economy.
In FooledbyRandomness, I stressed that to understand the world you need to nurture the skill in separating the anecdotal from the statistical, the noise from the signal, & the salient from the representative.
I am now adding the difference between information and propaganda.