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Anders Dunk

Philosopher. Regular literary critic in Ny Tid. Translator.
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The escape from humanity

POST humanism: Jan Grue's essay succeeds as a time frame and criticism by virtue of being a personal and bipartisan approach.
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Historical patience

MISCELLANEOUS: Manuel Castells paints a picture of today's democratic decline that is as recognizable as it is bleak.
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Life with the robots in the future of the day

THE ROBOTS AND US: The most astonishing feature of this documentary is the contrast between the robots' awkward shortcomings and the patience they receive with the humans who train them.
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Diaries from the wild youth of the internet

DOTCOM: The first internet revolution is a wild chapter with a strange mix of comedy and disaster. An inside perspective and the wisdom of the future help us to ask again if everything could have gone differently.
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A counterbalance to today's cruel lack of solidarity

Totalitarianism? The anarcho-communist critic Franco Berardi believes we have overestimated reason and intelligence as a world-changing force.
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The finance elite's manipulation of reality

THE PARADOX OF MONEY: Arne de Boever explores how the unstable reality of finance makes people psychotic – and pushes literary realism to its outer limits.
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An increasingly nihilistic world

TECHNOLOGY: The world is becoming increasingly nihilistic as it becomes increasingly clear that humanity is unable to take care of it. The challenge Bernard Stiegler takes on is to show the way to an alternative anthropology – in practice as well as in theory.
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Future without utopia?

Rees strives as much as the rest of us to separate science from science fiction. He declares himself a technological optimist and political pessimist, but the role of technology becomes difficult to understand without a credible vision of a better world.
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Artificial intelligence or human whims?

The mathematician Hannah Fry has explored the shortcomings and possibilities of artificial intelligence. A fruitful division of labor between machine and human is possible – and necessary, she believes.
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