Catalyst<\/em><\/a>, and I encourage you never to put it down as the coming decades prove my predictions to be true. If you can’t hold it, you may soon be able to hear it, as I do indeed plan to produce an audio book version of it once I get the time, narrated in my own voice of course.<\/p>\n![\"hjb](\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/375\/2015\/09\/hjb-signature-new-transparent-300x86.png\")
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As I said in the last post, the results are not always fantastic, but technology throughout history achieves a lot more good than bad. That’s my argument in my thesis, Catalyst, from back in 2013. Each time I look back on that book authored by my younger self I try to question it, but I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,42,41,63,43,61,45,44],"tags":[1455,25,1488,4,1434,478],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alter-globalization","category-amazon","category-book","category-futurism-2","category-post-scarcity","category-science","category-techno-progressivism","category-transhumanism","tag-industry","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-technology","tag-technoprogressivism","tag-transhumanism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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