Deepmind is, near as I can nail down from online descriptions, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) center owned by Alphabet, which in turn is owned by Google. Recently their AI program, or one of them, discovered the 3-D construction of over 200 million different proteins covering all forms of life on Earth. This is a huge breakthrough which will enable tons of new technology. If you want to get detailed information on this, go Here. I’m just providing a very rough outline.
Google, through it’s subsidiaries Alphabet and Deepmind, is heavily involved in developing AI with the goal of creating artificial intelligence that far exceeds human intelligence.
The USA and Japan are building a nanochip factory to offset the one in Taiwan, which is currently the only one, because of China’s aggression there. Nanochips are the smallest and most advanced microchips in the world, and the fastest.
They’re the ones inside smartphones.
The American Congress is currently debating the passage of a $400 billion Climate Change bill primarily aimed at developing and improving energy technologies. That’s a lot of money with much of it going to technology research. Some advances are bound to come out of it, possibly major ones.
People are becoming unimportant except as pawns in power plays. When you have a small population, each member of it can have particular value, but when hundreds of millions of them serve only to take up space and cause problems, such as needing to be cleaned up after and fed without society getting any return, and dealing with their crimes and disruptions, they become obsolete. Unwanted and unusable. The predictions of imminent, severe food shortages may yet come true as a means of ridding humanity of the most useless of it’s population.
Nations are becoming obsolete. National identities and priorities, issues of sovereignty, power plays and competitions between nations are all interfering with the global supply network. When that breaks down, the world breaks down because we are now all deeply involved with trade with each other. No nation could exist if it were shut off from world trade and this means that Globalism is here, now. The European Union is a group of obsolete nations that have given up their sovereignty to the group leadership. NATO is similar but currently less successful, and the United Nations is another. The UN lately is becoming more cohesive, and all these nations are members of the UN, which may yet become the major united global force opposing China.
Religion is becoming obsolete. The spread of knowledge via the Internet has resulted in a global “compression” of people. We are steadily becoming of one mind in the sense of all being one humanity. At the same time, mass media continually hammers away at religion and religiosity. Religion breaks down as societies break down, and the mass immigrations from everywhere to everywhere have obsoleted most of the world’s ethnic practices. No one blows Alp Horns and dresses in folk costumes in Switzerland anymore, the Dutch don’t wear wooden shoes anymore, the Chinese don’t bind the feet of girls, African tribes don’t wear neck rings, nose plugs and tribal scars, and so on. All that is obsolete.
Political parties are becoming obsolete. Here in the USA we now see lots of “RINOs”, politicians who join one party but are actually aligned with another party, with the result being that one party has all the power while the other one is just a facade. The same thing is true for the UK, the EU and many other nations. The USA is and has been a mirror politically of Europe for decades now.
Change is the only Constant. World events have to be seen as a whole to understand the nature, flow and direction of Humanity’s future. Our Technological Age has really only just begun and won’t fully blossom until we stop chipping rocks into tools and weapons to attack neighboring tribes with and steal their women.