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FOR THE LOVE OF TECHNOLOGY AND FEAR OF APOCALYPSE

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The central doctrine of Process Philosophy holds that man is in a state of Constant Change or Becoming. And rightly so. Man is continuously changing and human development is involved in an endless process of evolution. This can be likened to the Hegelian “Absolute Spirit” which is constantly developing and creating a whole new universe like a world of continuous formation. As man evolves, technology also evolves with him. Today, a state has been attained where the forces of good and evil, of right and wrong are at war. A balance must not only be maintained but also sustained or man stands to risk the loss of his humanity to the creations of his own hands. I remember a wise man telling me many years ago that the greatest enemy of man is the self. A subjective notion, though, but one that will pass the validity test for intelligibility and perhaps truth, anytime. The quest about the “self” started with the ancient Greek Philosopher, Socrates. According to the thinker, the only way for

CENTURY'S QUARTER OF WOES

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The worst may not yet be over for the first quarter of the 21 st century which may well go down in history as a century like no other. From its dawn till now, nations and kingdoms have had their own fair share of crises and tales of woes. At the global level, humanity was greeted by a calamity of unimagined proportionality, the bombing of the twin towers of the world trade centre, which sent over three thousand persons to the land of the dead. Today, less than three years to the end of the first quarter of this century, one can make bold to assume one or two probabilities: either the spirits have refused to be pacified or the gods are angry with man. I recall that fateful Tuesday morning of September, 11 2001. The sun seemed to have risen earlier than usual as though it was preparing for something special, its resplendence brimming with radiance over all, with a little air of expectancy for the unknown. I was out, rope skipping, headed for the 500 th count when my phone started to

IS CRYPTOCURRENCY CHANGING OUR WORLD?

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  The financial world experienced a great revolution in the year 2009 when a group of inventors across the globe led by Satoshi Nakamoto came up with a blockchain technology which can conveniently be termed “Cryptocurrency”. Unfortunately, this development upset a lot of persons especially powerful governments around the world, which have benefitted in no small measure from the centralized financial system for many decades if not centuries. Today, disciples and beneficiaries of the old order seem to have come to swallow the bitter pill that Cryptocurrency is not only changing our world but has come to stay.   Financial authority, for a very long time, has enjoyed centralization to the benefit of the selected few and detriment of the greater majority. Governments around the world have often capitalized on this monopoly to effectively subdue the masses by controlling the rate of cash flow. No wonder why financial experts believe that the traditional/centralized banking system is one