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    <p>Dear All,</p>
    Below a couple of late messages from Plamen exchanged offline (due
    to the list limitation). <br>
    In my view, the relationship of technology with utopianism appears
    quite frequently, and it is not unsound, but science needs to be far
    more careful. <br>
    From utopia to dystopia there are so very few steps...
    <p>--Pedro<br>
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            <td>Re: [covid-19-therapy] Fwd: [Fis] Abstract--Electronic
              Symbiosis—Lessons from Bacteria</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Fecha: </th>
            <td>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:52:18 +0100</td>
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            <td>Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov
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            <td>Covid-19 Therapy
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            <td>Howard Bloom <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:howlbloom@aol.com"><howlbloom@aol.com></a>, Pedro C.
              Marijuan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es"><pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es></a></td>
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          style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Thank you,
          Otto. I was in the mood to write this short appeal today. When
          I joined the telco and media industry away from the self-pity
          academia in the mid 1990ies, I felt inspired by the fall of
          the Berlin Wall and the hope that the dreams of John Lennon
          and Martin Luther King are about to become reality next. I was
          not motivated by some weird opportunity to chase "likes" by
          sharing narcissistic experiences with sensation greedy fellows
          around the world in the social media as this became normal
          today. I told myself that the next step for humanity is to end
          all wars and go into deep space. The only problem I realized
          at that time was the lack of communication, which made us feel
          so damned alone in the universe. That's why I fully embraced
          the development of the internet and all related technologies
          that would help us to go out in the wild cosmos and civilize
          it one day. I never thought that the same kind of technology
          will be used to fabricate fake news, selfish social networks,
          depressive  movies and oppressive news that serve corporations
          to create fears and inflate their profits. Just watch who was
          the winner of the COVID-19 pandemic according to the stock
          exchange numbers in 2020. What a waste of mind energy! It is
          time to change something, away from these deep psychosocial
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            <div> On Friday, February 19, 2021, 11:19:28 AM GMT+1, Dr.
              Plamen L. Simeonov <<a
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                      <div style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">Yes, John.<br
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                      <div style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">I have seen
                        the movie. Despite all these dark and
                        apocalyptic visions of the future which
                        became popular in the past 40 years, I recall
                        another earlier era of sci-fi which was also
                        challenging but more positively motivated by the
                        spirit of adventure and the eagerness to explore
                        the riddles of the universe. Its driver was the
                        Apollo space program and the gentlemen's
                        competition in space between the Russians and
                        the Americans which has motivated millions of
                        people around the world including myself despite
                        the Cold War. At that time the world was at the
                        edge of self-destruction (1983, the Pershing II
                        program in West Germany) and there was still
                        more hope than now with COVID-19 and the US
                        elections, which are about to become a
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                      <div style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">Yesterday,
                        with the launch of the new NASA Perseverance
                        rover on Mars and the transmission of the images
                        from the red planet I was able to feel again a
                        bit of this positive spirit of hope and
                        excitement in some of my peers who were not
                        distracted by the everyday news about gruesome
                        political wars that  media overexpose to the
                        public and charges the minds with negative
                        energy and expectations. Where is the science in
                        the news? I do hope that a new era of curiosity
                        and adventure is opening now. Maybe this is
                        the beam of light - Perseverance - that Howard
                        meant in his former post at FIS about the
                        exciting new worlds and paradises that wait to
                        be explored by us, human beings. Because this is
                        our destiny, as Carl Sagan earlier and Michio
                        Kaku recently said. We need thousands and
                        millions of scientists, teachers and professors
                        like them to push this planet in a different
                        direction. Politicians and ((a)social) media are
                        not the heroes of our time. Go to the NASA page
                        and see what amazing technology we have to
                        change the world for the good. We should be able
                        to address this quality of man. May Howard
                        Bloom's prophecy become true. What we think is
                        becoming reality. Changing the way of thinking
                        is essential for the survival of an intelligent
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                      <div style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">Have a nice
                        day. </div>
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                      <div style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">Best!</div>
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                      <div style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">Plamen</div>
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                      <div style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">I put this
                        email in this forum, because Pedro is limiting
                        the number of contributions to FIS, which is OK.</div>
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