"...former South African president Nelson Mandela admitted that the millions of thoughts, prayers, and well-wishes he has received have played absolutely no role in his improving health, and that his recovery has been 100 percent dependent on doctors."
On the theme of religious nonsense, here is a Tweet responding to Richard Dawkins.
@RichardDawkins If you call a piece of art obscene, you call the artist obscene. The same goes for the human body. GOD is not obscene.
— Balint Szent-Miklosy (@szentmiklosybal) June 30, 2013
Sadly Nelson Mandela will probably die before medical technology can save him, furthermore there's nothing God or prayers can do about it because God does not exist, but in the not too distant future, maybe sometime around the late 30s, body transplants will be possible. In mid-2013 Next Big Future reported on body transplants, which the following Tweet relates to.
@MikeAnissimov we should be able to transplant heads onto 3D-printed bodies by 2035. 2050 is too late an estimate IMO. 2045 absolute latest.
— SINGULARITY UTOPIA (@2045singularity) June 30, 2013
A snapshot of mid-2013 would be severely flawed if the Snowden-PRISM affair was not mentioned. Tempora and DROPMIRE are also worth mentioning. It's worthwhile to note how the US military blocked access to parts of the Guardian website. On the issue of excessive authority note how one teen was imprisoned awaiting trial regarding a sarcastic threat in a Facebook comment. Here is a Tweet from WikiLeaks regarding Snowden-PRISM, and below that a video of Snowden.
#Snowden demanded all 41 pages of #PRISM document be published but neither WaPo nor Guardian had the courage http://t.co/ziFKbdWQKJ
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 10, 2013
The following video is a response to Xbox One restrictiveness, which initially entailed strict limits on sharing games. I have not followed the hoo-hah precisely thus I'm unsure of facts, but I have the vague impression of vast craziness happening regarding Xbox One, such as a microphone you cannot disable (for PRSIM monitoring?), or compulsory weekly updates lasting a few hours each update, or the need to always be online.
On a positive note technology continues to do great things, which we see in this Tweet regarding organic solar cells:
How @WCGrid & @Harvard are converting sunlight into electricity w/ organic solar cells http://t.co/YWc6UwEinl #cleanenergy
— IBM Research (@IBMResearch) June 30, 2013
Despite positive sci-tech news, the world of 2013 is a diabolical torment. Chaos persists in Egypt, many people are obese in the USA (35.7% of adults 2009-2010), and two popes will be made saints. Perhaps the agony of existence is best illustrated by the Boston Bombings, but for me personally I have my own horrendous intellectual pain to deal with regarding my intelligence contrary to a world of stupidity, thus I feel affinity with Cassandra or the One Eyed King, so I Tweeted:
Existence in pre-Singularity world is unbearably hellish nightmare, extremely insane agonising intellectual pain, horrifically vile.
— SINGULARITY UTOPIA (@2045singularity) June 30, 2013
If there's a particular Tweet you want me to add, please let me know and I will probably include it. I am not however giving a complete cultural picture because some aspects are simply too depressing, thus I am not interested in anything pro-religion or pro-aliens. I may not agree with your Tweet but I 'll include it if it adds to the diversity of my snapshot. Here is one example, regarding an independent TV station, which David Icke is creating. I most certainly do not support, agree with, or follow David Icke, but someone wanted me to include the Tweet, after they responded to my request, so here it is:
@2045singularity The People's Voice http://t.co/bYNnpxZ6UX is being setup to ask the questions that the cabal controlled media won't ask
— koolstack (@koolstack) June 30, 2013
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