America
"In the United States, wealth is highly
concentrated in a relatively few hands. As of 2004, the top 1% of
households (the upper class) owned 34.3% of all privately held wealth,
and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business
stratum) had 50.3%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a
remarkable 85%, leaving only 15% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage
and salary workers)"(1)
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Global
"Are we really happy to live in a world where the top 1% own half the wealth and the poorest half own just 1%?"(2)
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Emerging Future
"Transhumanism (or Human Plus, H+) is a
social and philosophical movement that explores the uses of technology
for the positive transformation of human capacities, and the social,
political and ethical implications that such a transformation would
carry....it [is] imperative that we theorize science-driven changes so
as to integrate them more rationally and effectively in our policies,
social regulations and individual life plans."(3)
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