Simple arithmetic of our economy and unemployment: Number of jobs < number of candidates I don't mean to be un-nuanced and a reductionist, but this is a mathematical reality.
We knock more than once to establish that the sound is intentional. Similarly, in movies, aliens do like this to show that the signal is not random noise.
How to make pleasure sustainable? We are able to get high pleasure form precise things. But this seems to push our tolerance higher. Is there any way to dose sustainably…
Computationally speaking, we don't need increasingly powerful PCs and phones for our actual needs. We feel like we do, because of increasing bloat, inefficient design, planned obsolescence and implanted artificial…