That’s the nature of progressive risk-taking. In some situations, we receive no incremental feedback; no warning that things are about to go disastrously wrong.
Progressive risk-taking is exacerbated when operating outside of the envelope of previous experience.
Source: Wonky Thoughts: On Progressive Risk-Taking
RE: Apocalypse Not | Matt Ridley
A history of failed predictions of doom
Feds got more peoples’ phone call records in last 2 years than previous 10.
Source: ACLU forces government to reveal skyrocketing surveillance stats | Ars Technica
Federal Circuit Appeals Court marks 30 years of spreading the “patent gospel.”
Source: How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system | Ars Technica
In President Obama and Mitt Romney, we have a choice between someone who understands the complex world we live in and someone who doesn’t.
Source: The World We’re Actually Living In – The New York Times