On into 2023!
“It is 100 seconds to midnight.”* Concerned scientists had set the doomsday clock at that time even before the hostilities in Ukraine escalated into one of the hot spots of “World War III” – as Pope Francis used to call…
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“Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish.”
This truth was spoken out by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his opening day remarks at COP 27 in Egypt. The photo above, taken at the closing plenary sessionon 20 November 2022, gives an impression of where the outcome of…
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A responsibility to protect all of humanity from annihilism
“Responsibility to protect” (R2P) was introduced to justify “humanitarian interventions”. In view of the age of global challenges, Wolfgang Hofkirchner proposes a new concept: the responsibility to protect all of humanity from annihilism. Annihilism is the explicit justification or trivialisation…
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AI for war?
The journal FIfF-Kommunikation 4/2021, edited by our German friends organisation Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF), contains a 20 pages supplement with the title “Künstliche Intelligenz zieht in den Krieg” (AI goes to war). Emergent systems group…
An initiative against antisemitism and islamohostility
The Muslim-Jewish Educational Initiative is a new educational program run by Dr Irena Mostowicz (GSIS member), PhD Candidate David Braunstein (GSIS member) and PhD Candidate Amin Elfeshawi (Private University of Education in Linz). The vision of the Initiative is to…
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The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto signed by Jürgen Habermas, Noam Chomsky et al.
This manifesto (launched by an online event) is now available in several languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German. You can sign here. See the full list of the signatories here (at the end of the english version). Today, 880 signatories are…
The adventure of humanity – where do we stand today, after 75 years of “Anthropocene”?
Edgar Morin‘s most recent article shows, in a nutshell, his convincing view of the human condition and its current scientific-technological-economic development. Click here to get to the newspaper’s site (article in German). Marc Humbert and Frank Adloff from the Convivialist…
GSIS Member Gerhard Chroust 80 years old
Gerhard Chroust is Professor emeritus at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He belongs to the first people in Austria that have been educated in informatics (as different from computer science in the wake of the influential Austrian pioneer Heinz Zemanek).…
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Who is Edgar Morin?
Edgar Morin is an exceptional person who celebrates today, on 8 July 2021, his 100th (!) birthday. He is a philosopher and sociologist, well-known for his insights into complexity and his political ideas in France and in Latin America, but…
Hungarian Institute for Advanced Studies supports Homeland Earth campaign
The iASK (Institute of Advanced Studies Köszeg) has become active partner of the campaign for raising planetary awareness (click on the picture above featuring the iASK weekly newsletter). One year ago, Wolfgang Hofkirchner had been invited to the iASK to…
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