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蘋果出了史上最貴的iPhone XS Max,一支要價NT$52,900。可是,如果把一支智慧手機的所有化學元素都分開再賣給你,價錢還會這麼高嗎?蘋果公司出這價錢合理嗎?我們是不是該抵制一下這黑心的商業行為?⋯⋯

Let us imagine the future through multiple perspectives: quantum physics and human consciousness, robots and humans, love and relationships, gene banks and the apocalypse, social networks and surveillance, nuclear fusion and artificial suns, climate crisis and geopolitics, eugenics, and extraterrestrial intelligence. Though this program is titled The Future Is Near, perhaps the future has already arrived. The more important question is: Are we ready?