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"We are now in the era of confident stupidity! (and it is having a tremendous impact on opportunities for innovation!)"- Futurist Jim Carroll
Idiocracy, the movie, is a documentary.
I've been saying for several months now that it's a pretty difficult time to be a futurist. Actually, sometimes it's maddening.
With that in mind, let's take on the issue of the "confident stupidity" that now surrounds us. The fact is, the rejection of expertise is reshaping business, innovation, and our future, and not in a good way. If you like, you can grab the little 10-page PDF I created - it's here - and share it around.
https://pdf.jimcarroll.com/The-Arrival-of-Confident-Stupidity.pdf
And I actually created two versions of the deck - here's the second one with a little more detail. It actually contains this nugget of information - the cost of confident stupidity!
- $2.8 trillion in lost market value - that's the estimated annual impact of misinformation on companies. Just ask anyone in the solar industry how things are going.
- 3.5x - the average delay in the adoption of new technologies and science
- 67% trust erosion - that's the decline in trust that people have in scientific institutions in the last decade.
Yikes.
What is "confident stupidity"?
It isn't about a person's intelligence. I'll use the phrase to describe individuals who firmly reject expert knowledge on significant subjects such as science, technology, and health, even when faced with overwhelming evidence.
This behaviour is not the same as honest questioning or healthy skepticism. It is characterized by the confident dismissal of well-established facts in favour of alternatives that are appealing but false. Examples can be seen across various fields:
-Climate Change: Rejecting many decades of climate science, despite a 99% agreement among experts.
-Vaccines: Dismissing the medical consensus on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
- Technology: Claiming that proven innovations like solar power and electric vehicles (EVs) are "failures".
It's bad, and getting worse.
With all this, the business impact is already here. Companies are losing contracts, people are losing jobs, and industries are being sent into an almost irreversible decline. Much of this didn’t need to happen.
Read the rest of the post.
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Futurist Jim Carroll is baffled by the mindset of many of the people he meets.
**#Stupidity** **#Expertise** **#Misinformation** **#Science** **#Innovation** **#Trust** **#Rejection** **#Knowledge** **#Progress** **#Future**
ओशो के विचारों से शिक्षा का नया दृष्टिकोण
शिक्षा, जागरण और क्रांति पर आधारित ओशो साहित्य अब आपके लिए। 
Amazon, Flipkart और Diamond Books वेबसाइट पर उपलब्ध।
Ah, I nearly forgot that #September is for #MinCup25 organised by @MineralCup
It's more than a daily poll game - following this hashtag provides you with loads of #knowledge and ideas about the stony world. How it works: vote and write a hashtagged post why you voted for X or Y https://www.mineralcup.org/about
The minerals change daily!
Examples:
https://mastodon.online/@syferdet@toad.social/115132478462960491
or
https://mastodon.online/@geohenning.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/115130547541647145
State of (in)security - Week 35, 2025
During the week of August 25 - September 1, 2025, cybersecurity incidents affected 5.4 million individuals across 21 data breach events. The most significant was a TransUnion breach exposing 4.46 million people. The week was marked by emerging threats including AI-powered attacks.
**Be aware that AI tools have become another weapon for hackers, so isolate such tools from anything production. Attackers are now even using AI as part of the ransomware to generate different scripts.**
#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #weeklyreport
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/state-of-in-security-week-35-2025-u-e-8-h-y/gD2P6Ple2L
Electricity can produce Magnetic effect. Magnetism can produce Electricity. That's what Electromagnetism is, but Marvel Villains Electro & Magneto have never used each other's powers. I think this is because the general public is unaware of Electromagnetism.
Collecting All Causal Knowledge
We have it full of information ...
https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-1068-b639-c70c-727448746928
"To say something factually correct is already to have an #opinion on what to do with it."
Lauréline #Fontaine: "In a society of law built since the end of the Middle Ages around the protection of trade and exchange, truth has progressively acquired the status of a social necessity: it excludes uncertainty and produces the trust necessary for the maintenance and development of exchanges."
"The category of truth in the social space is not - in fact - the object of a monopoly (including in a scientific community tightly bound around certain protocols intended to produce it): the category of #truth is a very liberal practice, or even neo-liberal to use a paradigm of analysis that has become commonplace today. It is the object of a form of permanent competition, depending on the means available to some and others to appropriate it or reveal it."
fr https://www.ledroitdelafontaine.fr/entretien-sur-la-verite-en-democratie/
Ticket sale opens TODAY at 7:00 PM CEST - Make sure to be fast!!
Experience an #unforgettable day filled with #insights and #networking at #BSides København 2025!
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Our conference is for anyone #passionate about #ITsecurity and meeting like-minded people. Join a dynamic community where the brightest minds in the industry gather to share #knowledge and #experiences.
The event takes place on:
November 8, 2025
Location:
IT-Universitetet i København
Time:
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Expect a day full of thought-provoking talks and plenty of opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals.
Don’t miss the chance to be part of BSides Copenhagen 2025 – a unique event where nonprofit and innovation meet.
Get more information at https://2025.bsideskbh.dk/.
We couldn't make this happen without the support of you all out there - thank you!
The Federal Government has published the final report of the independent Age Assurance Technology Trial, and experts from #RMIT #Uni_Newcastle #UNSW #Sydney_Uni #CurtinUni #Griffith_Uni #latrobe #UniMelb #Swinburne #ANUmedia respond
"the authority of ignorance"
This goes askew from Asimov's quote, because the philosophers referred to in the essay are not claiming that ignorance is "just as good" as knowledge; they are claiming that ignorance is actually superior to knowledge.
"to infer that the vast sea of human knowledge on the topic is nothing next to the thimble of your ignorant skepticism"
- @JuliusGoat
from the article:
"the philosopher claims to be curious while demonstrating himself actively incurious... the way he uses his lack of knowledge not to pursue knowledge, but to shut down knowledge or even the chance that knowledge exists...
the goal here does not seem to be knowing, but not-knowing, as a way of claiming the authority of ignorance."
- @JuliusGoat
https://www.the-reframe.com/your-ignorance-doesnt-make-you-an-expert/
Makes me think of that Asimov quote:
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
~Isaac Asimov
The Privatisation of Knowledge: Intellectual Property and the Destruction of Collective Memory by João Romeiro Hermeto, 2025
This book argues that the private appropriation of human knowledge through intellectual property gives rise to power relations, which colonise the collective mind as well as individual minds. In so doing these power relations destroy the social fabric necessary for producing and reproducing knowledge.
Do you know how fast the Speed of Light is? If there is a hypothetical Train that travels at the speed of light & runs around the Earth's circumference at the equator, then if you are waiting for that train on the platform, it will pass by that platform approximately 7 times in 1 second. 
~ Sarah Dessen
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Just be rich - it solves your problems!
https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-4468-b23a-8a32-3a5847045587