Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2010-12-25 01:08
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We live in the most wonderful time in the history of the human race (so far). We can see the planet. We can feast on the totality of human knowledge. We can see and hear and taste every corner of the world.

Every year mankind performs miracles. For example, never in human history have we seen another time when a technology increased it's price-performance by six or eight orders of magnitude within a lifetime. For that technology to be a technology of the intellect is doubly marvelous. Forget the Gutenberg press. Forget parchment. Forget the invention of language. Nothing, but nothing, has ever ever changed within one lifetime how we think and experience the way that digital technology has. Ever. This is a first. And you are alive to see it. (More on this here)

We are privileged and lucky to witness it. Even the poorest of us are better off than ever before. The most potent political messages are not political at all, such as this one:

Life is good, never better. Please don't believe the media. Don't be sucked into the black morbidness of the guilterati. Read the Rational Optimist. Enjoy our era as the pinnacle of human achievement (to date). Happiness is fleeting but goodness isn't. La dolca vita. Live life. Enjoy. And share.

I wish you the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years. May the dazzling, stimulating, remarkable abundance of human endeavour continue for your lifetimes and those of your descendants to come. I couldn't wish better for you than to be alive now.

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Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2011-01-02 19:02.

Speaking of the Rational

Speaking of the Rational Optimist here's a great read and a blog to follow. (thanks to Pinker David)

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