Survival is the fundamental component of individual self-interest: you can’t be happy if you are not alive. Even if armed with the Prefrontal neocortex — Nature’s most advanced tool for survival, in the whole process of evolution Homo sapiens never had a viable strategy of individual existence: we can’t run…

The new book of Dr. Jayshree Pandya, a leading expert at the intersection of science, technology and security, and Founder and CEO Risk Group, “The Strategic Security Risk Report 2021” is all about the basics of studying risks, the ten main groups of existential threats humanity faces in the 21st…

Image: Universal Future The new book of Dr. Jayshree Pandya, a leading expert at the intersection of science, technology and security, and Founder and CEO Risk Group, “The Strategic Security Risk Report 2021” is all about the basics of studying risks, the ten main groups of existential threats humanity faces…

You Can’t Have Democracy in a Society of Zombied Individuals The point in time when Homo sapiens emerged — some 300 000 years ago, was the only moment in history when the human brain was fully adequate to accomplish its evolutionary mission of survival and advancement: at that time Truth was functioning as a component of a relevant environment that…

“Geopolitics of Cybersecurity” — the new book of Dr. Jayshree Pandya On the still insufficiently explored and analyzed field where dynamic cybersecurity issues continue to evolve in a geopolitical environment functioning in the tribal mode with state and non-state actors confronting each other, and strongly assisted through her abundant experience…

The Anthropology Behind Disinformation and Manipulation If someone tries to persuade you that the cobra in front of you is just a rubber toy, this is not disinformation; this is attempted murder. Discussion about truth, knowledge, and reality has never left the center-stage of human inquisitiveness, keeping it all the time overpopulated by colorful to exotic…

You cannot always survive long enough to enjoy the wisdom of hindsight We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight. Daniel Kahneman The advance of technology and human knowledge changes our tools, and every new kind of tool transforms the…

Rearranging the Puzzle of Available Factors into a Rational Future for the Irrational Homo sapiens The mission of human spirit is to confront challenges that civilizationally stand orders higher than tribes of Homo sapiens fighting each other The renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson wrote: “Humanity arose as an accident of evolution, a product of random mutation and natural selection. Our species was just one endpoint…

The anthropogenic risks for the Human civilization have only one place where they can emerge, hide and develop — in the human brain Life is about creating values, not about expropriating values. Aristotle Human activities are consequential for the physical world around us. The more advanced the technologies we use, the deeper, wider and more complex is the impact. The purpose of what we do is to create products that we need, but the process of materializing our wishes, however, includes generating side…