Vegabundo

  I couldn’t have picked a more overused topic, but unfortunately, we cannot avoid it. My first plan was to support this scientifically acknowledged process with various data. After some thought, I realized that there’s no point. There is scientific consensus—why should I prove it? The world is so complex, with so many conflicting interests, that untangling and solving this issue is impossible. There’s no point in investing energy into it. Climate change is inevitable. But what does this mean for our own lives, our families, and our grandchildren? I have no idea. The Earth's climate is a complex, partly chaotic system. It is difficult to model, and it is impossible to predict with certainty what will happen. There are too many variables. Every butterfly, every flap of its wings has an influence. Scientists do everything they can to predict the future, but they can only calculate trends and probabilities. Fortunately, they are becoming more precise, and AI will provide furthe...

Laszlo Hanyecz, aka Pizza Guy, got hungry on May 22, 2010. He wanted to eat pizza and asked for advice on a forum about how he could buy one with Bitcoin. At that time, there was no such option, but someone paid for two pizzas in exchange for 10,000 BTC. This was the first recorded transaction where crypto was used. If you haven’t been living in a cave for the past few years – and maybe even if you have – you’ve heard about the incredible growth this currency has experienced over the last 15 years. I believe that Satoshi Nakamoto wanted to create an independent and secure payment system. His intention was not for it to become a gambler's playground, making a few people insanely rich. I don’t understand what people actually want from Bitcoin. What I do see is that many just want to get rich quickly. In that case, I can recommend gambling—it’s made for exactly that. People have tried to explain to me why this digital currency is valuable. 1. The technology itself is valuable. 2. Ther...

Once again, a topic that has been present in public consciousness for decades, explored in thousands of stories, but is now becoming truly relevant. It's time to reflect deeply on it. There are several ways for a human to become a more advanced entity than their birth body. We can distinguish two major categories: physical and cognitive modifications. More and more people with disabilities receive prosthetics that help them lead a fuller life. Perhaps we are not far from slowing down, stopping, or even reversing aging. Modern medicine is developing the 3D printing of human organs. Today, genetic interventions are used to eliminate congenital diseases. Through cloning, we could create a new body for ourselves, and with the help of genetics or artificial enhancements, we could even improve it. Neuralink will soon enable direct communication between the brain and a computer. These are just a few examples, and we haven't even leaped too far into the future. These technologies alrea...

We are still far from the time when humans will populate the galaxy, but this is a topic that cannot be thought about too soon. Rocket propulsion based on chemical combustion has reached its efficiency limits. There are other propulsion methods, but they are not yet at a sufficient level of development. A breakthrough is expected in the coming decades in nuclear and ion propulsion, but on a cosmic scale, these will also only allow for interstellar travel over extremely long periods. Unfortunately, wormholes and space-warping solutions remain in the realm of fiction, and it is quite possible that such technologies will never be available. The speed of light is an unavoidable limit. I understand that this speed limit does not apply to the expansion of space, but what good is expanding space if we want to get closer to a distant object? Of course, it is not necessarily a bad thing that we are limited by the speed of light—or, more precisely, by the speed of electromagnetic propagation. Th...

I was thinking about coming up with something good and original. I already had the basics, but then I did a little research to see if something similar existed, and it turned out that everything already exists. I didn’t come up with anything new. Again. Great. Oh well. Then I’ll write down what solutions I’ve found for creating a fairer, more sustainable, and more cooperative society. There are a lot of exciting things here. Probably better ones than my ideas. Imagine, there are already functioning digital social models. For example, there are DAOs, which enable the creation of decentralized, blockchain-based contracts and organizations. Basically, this means anything. Examples include Aragon, DAOstack, and MakerDAO. There are digital states, such as Bitnation, which is a voluntary, virtual nation based on blockchain. There are digital basic income communities like GoodDollar and Circles UBI. For direct democracy, there are digital platforms like Loomio and Liquid Democracy. These allo...

What Is a Person Entitled to in the 21st Century Simply for Being Human? Not much, but it doesn’t have to stay this way forever. If someone owns a dog, they have a moral and legal obligation to care for it. What about a human being? In 1948, the UN drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—full of beautiful ideas, but ultimately just guidelines and recommendations. In reality, nothing happens if these human rights are seriously violated somewhere. Try invoking them in a moderately developed legal system—the best you can hope for is a polite smile. By 1966, things became more serious, and two legally binding documents were created: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. In a perfect world, all 173 and 171 signatory countries would strictly adhere to these obligations. However, nearly six decades of experience suggest otherwise. What Happens When a Country Fails to Honor Its Commitments? Th...

  I think we can safely assume that technological advancements will cause many people to lose their jobs and, along with them, their income. Some of them will likely find new jobs, others might make a living by dancing on TikTok, and some might even sell their farts, but let’s be honest—none of this will create enough jobs for billions of people. The idea of basic income has been around for a while, but there’s no sign that it will be introduced in time. Let’s think about this together. Who should receive basic income? Each country could implement its own solution. Some nations might need this sooner, while others might need it later. The demographic makeup, economic structure, and environmental factors all influence how much basic income would be justified in different parts of the world. Another idea is that it should be provided globally to every human on the planet. If it’s not universal, existential disparities will continue to grow, and far more people than today will be forc...

  That’s it, stop having kids. The robots are coming. More precisely, they’re already here. Simulating politeness, they wave back at us in shopping malls. They take on the lousy, dangerous, monotonous jobs, changing the dirty diapers of our aging society. And that’s all good. But what will we humans do next? We could all write blogs, but will the world need ten billion bloggers? Because once mass production of robots begins, millions of them will roll out of factories every single year. We thought technological progress would first threaten physical labor, but it quickly became clear that graphic designers, programmers, and writers are in greater danger than those shoveling dirt. Of course, they won’t have to wait much longer either—soon, a humanoid robot will politely ask for their shovel and take over the task. Is this bad or good? Neither. It’s exactly what we make of it. One extreme—almost utopian—is a world where millions of robots anticipate our every wish, allowing u...

  Several organizations have calculated the poverty threshold. Poverty, of course, is a highly subjective concept. In these cases, they mainly calculated how much money a person needs to avoid starvation. Let's look at some numbers: Oxfam, extreme poverty threshold: $2.15 World Bank, moderate poverty threshold: $6.85 I’ll just leave these numbers here for now, but we’ll revisit them in a later post. I have been living on a budget of 5 euros per day for about a year now, which I consider a mid-term period. Aside from food, the only thing I spend money on is an internet subscription, though there were times when I even saved on that. The truth is, I have never lived healthier than during this period. An important side note: my carbon footprint has also been reduced to a fraction of what it used to be—practically, the only emissions from my existence come from my metabolic processes. How Do I Live? Very modestly. I am not complaining—I chose this li...

A species on the brink of extinction. Only a few specimens can be found in isolated corners of the world. My grandparents did the same job their entire lives. Our children will work in roles a few years from now that don’t even exist today. My grandparents still belonged to the category of analog humans, but my parents were already partially digitized. My generation grew up in this transition, even if it was just a Commodore computer that served as the gateway into the world of ones and zeros. Using a computer still felt very alien to me. It made me uncomfortable, uneasy, and somehow unnatural (DOS, Windows 3.1). My children, however, embraced the digital world much more easily, which can be attributed to the evolution of technology. Human habits have changed more in the past few decades than in the preceding thousands of years combined. The singularity has happened. We’ve been absorbed into the digital world. We didn’t notice because we are in the middle of the process, but from the o...

The world has become flooded with know-it-alls in just a few years. They tell you how to think, what to eat, where to travel, what shoes to buy, how and with what to clean yourself, who to live your life with, and so on. It’s hard to find a topic where someone doesn’t want to interfere. My mission is to primarily be the one who asks questions. I want my readers to think and form their own opinions. Of course, questions themselves can also be tools of manipulation. In fact, it’s unavoidable that questions influence people. I imagine questions lying on a spectrum. This spectrum represents their manipulative potential, depending on how strong the intent to influence is within them. Questions are good. Alright, you’re right. Nothing is inherently good or bad. It always depends on how it’s used. Let me put it more clearly: questions are excellent tools. When my kids were little, I tried to handle their learning on my own. I met a math teacher who teaches the subject in a truly revolutionary...