Brave New World's title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:O wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world ...
Vouchers are used in the tourism sector primarily as proof of a named customer's right to take a service at a specific time and place. Service providers collect them to return to the tour operator or ...
The literature on the black market has avoided a common usage and has instead offered a plethora of appellations including: subterranean; hidden; grey; shadow; informal; clandestine; illegal; unobserv ...
The Soviet Union implemented universal health care in 1937 and extended equal access to its rural residents in 1969. New Zealand created a universal health care system in a series of steps from 1939 t ...
Techno-progressivism maintains that accounts of "progress" should focus on scientific and technical dimensions, as well as ethical and social ones. For most techno-progressive perspectives, then, the ...
Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future is a 2004 non-fiction book by bioethicist and sociologist James Hughes, which articulates democratic transhu ...
Alternative technology is a term used to refer to technologies that are more environmentally friendly than the functionally equivalent technologies dominant in current practice.The term was coined by ...
A system of guaranteed minimum income can consist of several elements, most notably:a calculation of the social minimum, usually below the minimum wage;a social safety net, to help citizens or familie ...
Overconsumption; excessive or unnecessary use of resourcesOverpopulationSlash and burn agricultural practices, currently occurring in many developing countriesTechnological and industrial developmentE ...
Economists distinguish between various overlapping types of and theories of unemployment, including cyclical or Keynesian unemployment, frictional unemployment, structural unemployment and classical u ...
Major current environmental issues may include climate change, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource depletion etc. The conservation movement lobbies for protection of endangered species ...
Personal issues are those that individuals deal with themselves and within a small range of their peers and relationships. On the other hand, social issues threaten values cherished by widespread soci ...
Hughes has identified 15 "left futurist" or "left techno-utopian" trends and projects that could be incorporated into democratic transhumanism:AfrofuturismAssistive technology-enabled disabled peopleB ...
Aggression Some critics, including John Rawls in Justice as Fairness, argue that implied social contracts justify government actions that violate the rights of some individuals as they are beneficial ...
Historically social class and behaviour was sometimes laid down in law. For example, permitted mode of dress in some times of places was strictly regulated, with sumptuous dressing only for the high r ...
