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…n imagine hypothetical combinations of the most malevolent totalitarians with the most advanced technology, in the real world it’s the norms and laws we should be vigilant about, not the tech. Consider variation across time. If, as Orwell hinted, advancing technology was a prime...

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…geted non-white men); Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 6-9 (2010); World Prison Brief Data, Inst. for Crim. Pol'y Res. (2016), http://www. prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america (comparing national data on total prison...

23 simply transform the way we perceive the world without altering reality itself. Let me give you an example. While writing these lines, my friend calls. He is at Heathrow Airport waiting to get on a plane to Austria for a skiing holiday. His plane has been delayed for three ho...

…ct and we improvise as best we can." Anyone under the age of thirty reading the above would probably think, "Why in the world is the US government using the Blackberry?" Those who turned thirty long before the end of the last century— even those of us who try seriously not to be...

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…ars from now -- but if it does, I doubt I'd want to make it monogamous. I recognize that we don't always get our ideal world. In fact, we usually don't. Although polyamory is a high priority for me, it may be something I eventually compromise on, given that the majority of peopl...

…ivil society, once regarded as an irresistible force in the global struggle for democracy. According to Freedom in the World, the ability of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society institutions to function without state re- strictions has suffered a pronounc...

…y: Edward Snowden in Exile,’Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian, July 18, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower- interview-transcript 8. “He emailed Gellman under...”-- Barton Gellman, “Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in...

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… 2014 7. “Guardian policy required...”-- Luke Hardy, The Snowden Files: the Inside Story of the Most Wanted Man in the World (Vintage New York) 2014, p. 114-116 8. “The next morning he...”-- George Packer, “The Holder of Secrets,” New Yorker, October 20, 2014 9. “Iam ina safe...

…I was a teenager, I often walked onto the tennis court thinking that I was John McEnroe, serving and volleying like the world’s number one player. Each case above tells the story of a person who acted as if the world was one way even though it wasn’t. The Holocaust and its trail...

…er generation. But once we have mastered this new instinct, there will finally be a day after which we will look at the world and really feel the new logic at work. We’ll be Napoleon, not Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel. And from that day on, everything will honestly be different. 4, We...

…t interesting, the most vivacious, the most unusual person in any room. I've spent hours talking to her about the third world at a bar until 2am. She is as passionate as she is knowledgeable. She is curious. She has spent weeks at the bottom of the ocean, literally going deeper t...

…ow and clapping for the pilot for providing the safe voyage," she responded. No tarmac delays, no screaming babies. The world, only a year or two into the future, was a wonderful place to live in. If all our participants insisted on thinking positively when it came to what lay i...