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January 31 2012, 6:05am | Comments
Link Innovation Starvation
SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer)…

October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments
Link On Science Transfer
“Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before.…

September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Wikipedia Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth are existential risks that could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even…

June 26 2011, 11:00am | Comments
Link Conflict or Cooperation?
Among the theorists who jumped into the market for models of the future, three stood out: Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer. Each made a splash with a controversial…

November 5 2010, 5:54am | Comments
Link Manual for Civilization
We have confidence in our science-based civilization and think it has tenure. In so doing, I think we fail to distinguish between the life-span of civilizations and that of our…

April 7 2010, 6:26am | Comments
Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical… The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years…

September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments
Link If zombies actually existed
If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried…

August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments
Link NASA moon bombing violates space law & may…
The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep…

June 23 2009, 1:39am | Comments

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