Ted Chiang’s “Op Ed From the Future”: socialized transhumanism vs American oligarchy

The New York Times has inaugurated its “Op-Eds From the Future” (“science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists write op-eds that they imagine we might read 10, 20 or even 100 years in the future”) with a piece from Ted Chiang (previously) that imagines a future in which genetic engineering of human embryos is commonplace, leading to a well-intentioned attempt at preventing literal speciation into the haves and have-nots by subsidizing “intelligence boosting” genetic manipulation for lower-income families.
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Profiles of young Americans who entered voluntary exile rather than paying their student loans

CNBC profiles a small handful of young Americans who have moved abroad and ceased payments on their student debt, relying on international borders to protect them from their edu-creditors.
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Big Tech: “If the USA enforces antitrust laws against us, it means China will win!”

Mark Zuckerberg offered to let Chinese premier Xi Jinping name his firstborn (seriously), Apple purged the Chinese App Store of privacy tools at the request of the politburo; Google secretly built a censoring search-engine for use in China, but America’s Big Tech companies are sounding the alarm that they will no longer be able to promote America’s global dominance if any of the US Big Tech breakup plans are executed.
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