1 reason why people are reluctant to change, because of fear of the unknown. But history only constant is the fact that everything will change.
2, whether to create a political investment, or religious piety of art, much of it is in fact the fear of death promoted.
3, live in fantasy is a far more relaxed option, the only way to make sense of all the pain.
4. "If the first cognitive revolution is because the DNA of Homo sapiens played a little change, humans have the ability to make fictional, created the concept of religion, the state, enterprises, making it the rulers of the earth; then the future , algorithms and biotechnology will bring mankind's second cognitive revolution, the completion of the evolution of species from Homo sapiens to the man of God. "
5. "In the 21st century, has a long-term threat to human survival, plague development, famine and war problems have been overcome, Homo sapiens faces a new to-do issues: do not die of old, happiness and become upgraded with a 'divinity' of Humanity."
"Human will work and decision-making to machines and algorithms to complete, most people will become 'useless class'. Only an elite few can really enjoy these fruits of new technologies, with the completion of the evolution of intelligent design, edit their own gene, and the final machine integration, rule all mankind. "
6, guiding the global economy has changed from material economy to a knowledge economy. The main source of wealth is the last physical assets, such as gold, wheat fields, oil wells, now the main source of wealth is knowledge.
7, of course, still sometimes backfire, but the face of these failures, humans no longer just shrugged and said "No way, the world is so imperfect" or "This is God's will." Today, if there is famine, pestilence and war broke out without human control, which we feel must be the people out of the question, should set up an investigation committee to study the research, but also for himself a promise to do better next time . Moreover, this approach really works. The number and frequency of such disasters do occur are on the decline.
8, which is contradictory historical knowledge. If you can not change the behavior of knowledge, it is useless. But once the knowledge to change the behavior itself immediately meaningless. The more data we have, the more in-depth understanding of the history, the history of the track to change faster, our knowledge is obsolete faster.
9, no longer human equality, death is at hand!
10 terrorists want to shout like a fly in a china shop. Flies so small, single-handedly can not move even a cup too, so they got a cow, drill into its ears buzzing, let the cows mad because fear and anger, thereby undermining the entire china shop. This is the last thing in the decade in the Middle East. -
11, the physicist Max Planck had a famous saying: scientific progress in a time of funeral. He said that must wait until a generation away, new theories have a chance to eradicate the old theory.
12, as far as we are currently the most advanced scientific knowledge, the whole universe is a blind and purposeless process, full of noise and fury, but these are meaningless. We're just a little longer occupy the planet, but the position of a point, but there is then a short period of time, such as Macbeth said that tragic actor on the stage proud or frustrated for a while, no longer silent.
13, if there is a defect of the first to propose the ideal, the ideal is often the moment to be realized, we will be surprised to find.
14, that he is not better than a mortal, but if bent but broken dreams die, it may be more difficult to accept.
15, the best reason to study history: not to predict the future, but rather to free himself from the past came out, imagine if there will be another destiny. (Of course, we still can not help but be affected by the past, we can never be fully all of its own; however, some freedom is better than no freedom is much better.)
16, life is only a need to conquer the peak ------ trying to experience everything as a person's feelings.
17, in ancient times, the power from the right to the information. And to this day, but strength comes from what to overlook.
18, the traditional concept of the world as a pie of fixed size, the hidden assumption is that there are only two resources: raw materials and energy.
But in fact, there are three resources: raw materials, energy and knowledge.
Take the raw materials and energy have to do with the more the rest of the less;
But knowledge is growing, with the more, but has more.
Moreover, with the continuous growth of knowledge, but also to bring more raw materials and energy.
19, Coca-Cola threat to life caused by al-Qaeda may be far larger.
20, after the invention of nuclear weapons, if you want to provoke a war superpower, is tantamount to madness collective suicide.
21, thousands of years, the answer to this question does not change anything. Whether Chinese people in the 20th century, medieval Indians, or the ancient Egyptians, are faced with the same three major issues: famine, pestilence and war, people will always be a big concern. Generation after generation, humans pray to all gods, angels and saints worship, also invented numerous tools, institutional and social systems, but there are still millions of people continue to die of hunger, epidemics and violence. Many thinkers and prophets think so, famine, pestilence and war must be part of God's plan of the universe, or is born out of human imperfections, unless come to the end of time, otherwise never get rid of.
22, but the start of the third millennium, mankind began to realize that an amazing thing. Although most people rarely think about it, but in the past few decades, we have successfully curbed famine, disease and war. Of course, these problems have not really been fully resolved, but already from the past "incomprehensible, uncontrollable forces of nature" into a "can cope with the challenge." We no longer need to pray for someone to rescue human gods or saints, but has been quite understand how can we prevent famine, pestilence and war, and often can be successful.
23, refers to the calculation algorithm, problem solving, decision step of a structured. Therefore, a single algorithm is not a particular calculation means, but when the calculation method used.
Aim in life was "the most extensive life experience, to extract wisdom."
24, the success of modern medicine is to enable us from premature death, can complete its due life had finished.
25, humanist politics: voters can make the best choice
Humanism Economy: the customer is always right
Humanism Aesthetics: to see people think beauty is beautiful
Humanist ethics: it feels right, do it
Humanism Education: think for yourself
26, the study of history, is to break the shackles of the past, so that we can look at different direction, and began to pay attention to the previous or past can not imagine the possibility that we do not want to imagine.
The best reason to study history 27: not to predict the future, but rather to free himself from the past came out, imagine if there will be another destiny.
28, war is a "school of life", "What does not kill me makes me stronger."