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The Great Narrative And The Metaverse; Part 1 and Part 2

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The Great Narrative And The Metaverse, Part 1: A Dystopian Vision Of The Future   Author Derrick Broze As the World Economic Forum prepares for the return of their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the “international organization for Public-Private cooperation” is launching the next phase of The Great Reset agenda – The Great Narrative. On November 11th and 12th, the World Economic Forum held a 2-day meeting called  “The Great Narrative”  in Dubai, United Arab Emirates to discuss  “longer-term perspectives”  and  “co-create a narrative that can help guide the creation of a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable vision for our collective future” . The WEF gathered futurists, scientists, and philosophers from around the world to dream up their vision of how to reset the world and imagine what it might look like in the next 50 years. The discussions will be collected and published in a forthcoming book,  The Great Narrative , in January 2022. The r...

Robots can be companions, caregivers, collaborators — and social influencers

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Robot and artificial intelligence are poised to increase their influences within our every day lives In the mid-1990s, there was research going on at Stanford University that would change the way we think about computers. The Media Equation experiments were simple: participants were asked to interact with a computer that acted socially for a few minutes after which, they were asked to give feedback about the interaction . Participants would provide this feedback either on the same computer (No. 1) they had just been working on or on another computer (No. 2) across the room. The study found that participants responding on computer No. 2 were far more critical of computer No. 1 than those responding on the same machine they’d worked on. People responding on the first computer seemed to not want to hurt the computer’s feelings to its face , but had no problem talking about it behind its back . This phenomenon became known as the computers as social actors (CASA) paradigm becau...

How to Fortify the Mind in Times of Crisis

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How to Fortify the Mind in Times of Crisis “Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.” John Finley To trigger a nervous breakdown in someone you could apply the following steps: Force your victim into an atomized existence, forbid them from participating in the activities that imbue their life with joy, rid them of their job, destroy their daily routines, and tell them not to leave the confines of their home. To add icing to the cake of your diabolical plan you could then tell your victim that society stands on the precipice of an economic collapse. Sadly, this is not fiction, but reality for many people across globe and so in this video we are going to explore how to remain psychologically stable in the midst of a crisis. A crisis whether it plays out at the level of an entire society, or whether it is more localized to just a single family or a single person, affects the psyche in similar ways. When a crisis leads to rapid and extensive change in the patterns of our life it is ...