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0. DISCLAIMER: READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED

You have entered the table of contents of a free-written book or to be more precise you are witnessing a desperate effort to sort, in a sensible way, the incohesive outgoing and incoming streams of information.

This blog was created at an age and time when Facebook was something meant only for "poking" your friends, when Myspace was the real shit and people had in general a wider attention span.

Feel free to comment.

Your anonymous comments ease my existential angst, make kitties happy and soften my tendency to solipsism, for what it's worth here somewhere in rural Greece.

1. OUTGOING STREAMS OF INFORMATION (posts - music selection)

1.1 Blogreel

Hundreds of blogposts (mostly in greek). Explore them all here but please for phucks sake, do not expect to make any sense.

1.2 Music Selection

Here is a playlist with songs featured on this website. Not meant for standalone listening. Read also the accompanying posts. Someone could argue that this is a music blog. Whatever..

2. INCOMING STREAMS OF INFORMATION (news, documentaries, articles)

2.0.1 Hand-picked news and opinion articles (mostly in english) under broader categories. Each category contains links that point to different yet overlapping collections of articles.

2.0.1.1 No A.I. involved during the reading process except for some blind spiders that have contributed in the gathering.

2.0.2 A mix that supposedly helps the informational digestion. To be updated regularly

2.1 Fourth Industrial Revolution

[Wikipedia]

Although the terms "industry 4.0" and "fourth industrial revolution" are often used interchangeably, "industry 4.0" refers to the concept of factories in which machines are augmented with wireless connectivity and sensors, connected to a system that can visualise the entire production line and make decisions on its own.

In essence, industry 4.0 describes the trend towards automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies and processes which include cyber-physical systems (CPS), the internet of things (IoT), industrial internet of things (IIOT), cloud computing, cognitive computing and artificial intelligence.

Industry 4.0 fosters what has been called a "smart factory". Within modular structured smart factories, cyber-physical systems monitor physical processes, create a virtual copy of the physical world and make decentralized decisions. Over the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems communicate and cooperate with each other and with humans in real-time both internally and across organizational services offered and used by participants of the value chain.

Additive manufacturing/3D printing
Artificial intelligence

Swarm

Biotechnology

CRISPR

Decentralized consensus (NOTHING SUBMITTED YET)
Fifth-generation wireless technologies (5G )
Fully autonomous vehicles(NOTHING SUBMITTED YET)
Nanotechnology
Quantum computing
Robotics
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) (NOTHING SUBMITTED YET)
The Internet of Things

2.2 Existential Risks

[Wikipedia]

A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event which could damage human well-being on a global scale,[2] even crippling or destroying modern civilization.[3] An event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's potential is known as an existential risk.[4]

Potential global catastrophic risks include anthropogenic risks, caused by humans (technology, governance, climate change), and non-anthropogenic or external risks.[3] Examples of technology risks are hostile artificial intelligence and destructive biotechnology or nanotechnology. Insufficient or malign global governance creates risks in the social and political domain, such as a global war, including nuclear holocaust, bioterrorism using genetically modified organisms, cyberterrorism destroying critical infrastructure like the electrical grid; or the failure to manage a natural pandemic. Problems and risks in the domain of earth system governance include global warming, environmental degradation, including extinction of species, famine as a result of non-equitable resource distribution, human overpopulation, crop failures and non-sustainable agriculture.

Examples of non-anthropogenic risks are an asteroid impact event, a supervolcanic eruption, a lethal gamma-ray burst, a geomagnetic storm destroying electronic equipment, natural long-term climate change, hostile extraterrestrial life, or the predictable Sun transforming into a red giant star engulfing the Earth.