By Mark Antony Rossi We were naïve to expect advanced technology would have a positive impact on interpersonal understanding. It has fallen short of every measurement. Science cannot fix the future because the future will involve overcoming the weakness of flesh. The desire to improve ourselves and our relationships, whether […]
By Mark Antony Rossi Maniacal mass-murdering utopians Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin had an institutional fondness for burning books and doctoring photographs. The recent ethnic killing fields of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda began their brief bloody reigns in the exact same manner seeking to rewrite or erase history. And why? […]
By Mark Antony Rossi Antibiotics, once the miracle drugs of the modern age, are fast becoming a feeble formula against superbugs increasingly immune due to universal abuse. This abuse once blamed on frightened doctors overprescribing to protect their assets must now unfortunately include a tide wave of manufactured antibiotic mixtures […]
By Mark Antony Rossi I am reminded of an old Italian saying ” you can’t make stale bread fresh again. ” The thought behind this maxim might apply to many areas of our lives but the libido is clearly not one of them. The introduction of erection pills and implant […]
By Mark Antony Rossi The ancient story “The Tower of Babel” is perhaps the first recorded instance where human beings were feverishly attempting to be more than merely human. This insistence on being extra human is a recurring theme throughout history. In recent times it literally ends with Nazi human […]
By Mark Antony Rossi The road to digital dictatorship might have begun when we ditched our film cameras for digital photography. Seeing is no longer believing in a cyber-cynical day when digital enhancements are capable of altering an image to suit a prejudice or move forward a dark agenda. The […]
By Mark Antony Rossi The specter of genetic discrimination is about to become a reality with the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP). HGP by mapping all the genes in the human body holds great promise in developing better treatments to ease the suffering of victims of untreatable […]
By Mark Antony Rossi The death of Osama Bin Laden did not come from flying killer robots but rather from stealth helicopters built to hover silently above a target and deliver soldiers to a highly contested area. This monster of a murderer died at the hands of human justice dispensed […]
By Mark Antony Rossi In this day of thinking machines humanity has gone from Mother Nature to Mother Board without catching our breath to consider what this incredible leap has done to our collective consciousness. I woke up last night from a nightmare where people were bending knee in a […]