Tag anthropology
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My takeaway from Soylent is this: You can’t simply hack humanity into a more optimized version of itself. Our needs and drives have been shaped by millions of years of co-evolution and won’t be engineered away by a coterie of coders — no matter how much pedigreed venture funding they secure.
Because, in the end, even the most powerful code can’t reprogram the squishy, gloriously inefficient realities of the flesh.
And reader, that’s not at all a bad thing.
Пасы — это система графических знаков чаще геометрической формы, содержащая информацию о происхождении и родственных связях конкретного человека. Пас-основа передавался от отца к младшему сыну в неизменном виде, а к старшим сыновьям — трансформируясь с помощью добавления новых деталей или изменения его расположения.
Civilization leaves very few traces detectable centuries later. What if there were advanced civilizations that we didn't know of? Whale civilizations?