Two surprising things happened in the Iran War on Wednesday, June 3rd. Congress passed a War Powers Resolution. And our president announced about Iran’s supreme leader that “we seem to be getting along quite well” and that he would like to sit down with him in person. Meanwhile, our president has proclaimed that when it comes to
Howard Bloom institute
Some thinkers build careers inside one discipline. Howard Bloom has spent his life ignoring those boundaries entirely. Author, scientific thinker, and former music-industry strategist, Bloom is known for connecting fields most people would never think to link—cosmology and pop culture, biology and human behavior, the evolution of the universe and the future of society. His work asks
There aren’t a lot of thinkers out there whose life looks like it was stitched together by some rogue AI on caffeine. Howard Bloom is one of them. Part rock-and-roll publicist, part cosmic theorist, and now the mind behind the Howard Bloom Institute, he’s the kind of person who refuses to fit into any neat box.
Howard Bloom has one of those careers that doesn’t move in a straight line—it zigzags, mutates, and keeps reinventing itself. Which tracks, because Bloom has spent his life obsessed with evolution, culture, and the invisible forces that drive human behavior. He first made his mark in the music industry, not onstage but behind the curtain, working
For the first time in history, an author will sit down with a digital doppelganger of himself–an AI clone built to replace him when he dies–to discuss his new book in front of a live audience. This conversation between an author and an irreverent bot trained to take his place when he leaves this mortal
Today’s world is driving some of us insane. Especially us liberal Democrats. Why? The realities we take for granted are heaving beneath our feet. For example, Democrats believe that standard ethical and moral norms have been swallowed by a sinkhole. On May 14th, our president openly used his Saudi trip to make business deals for his family.
England’s Morrisons, a 470-store British supermarket chain, has tried something innovative but disturbing. In a few of its stores over the Christmas season, it installed a robotic intrusion detector designed to act as a night watchman on construction sites, in mines, and on farms. Morrisons tried this machine to detect, not trespassers, but shoplifters. The