The Greatest Gift Jews Can Offer the World
A manifesto for Jewish conservatism.
April 19, 2017
What Lies Behind the Dream of Turning People into Computers and Computers into People
The futurist campaign against mortality.
Reviewing some half-dozen recent books by self-proclaimed futurists who predict a world where artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies will, in one way or another, break down the distinction between man and machine, Joseph Bottum finds little intellectual sophistication but some noteworthy commonalities:
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“Soft Partition” Is Syria’s Likely Future
Zones of influence and a weak central government.
Marwan Barghouti Is No Nelson Mandela
A terrorist mastermind masquerading as a political prisoner.
For Medieval Sephardim, Marriages Were Made in Heaven. For Medieval Ashkenazim, They Were Made by Matchmakers
And perhaps by love, too.
What Lies Behind the Dream of Turning People into Computers and Computers into People
The futurist campaign against mortality.