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Morality of the Future
Slavery is so obviously wrong. So is beating your wife and kids. So is lynching ethnics. So is torturing dissidents. These things happen nowadays, but not by us. We’re better than that. But ask...
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State of the Future
Yesterday, I wondered what future generations will say about some of the things we take for granted. Then I made a few predictions of my own. Today, why not consider more thorough descriptions of our...
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Google is Building Robot Cars
Seriously I really hope they commit to that don’t be evil thing. Last week, I took a stab at some predictions for the future. Among those ideas was this: We’ll experience an automotive future where we...
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Singularities: Super-Heaven of the Future!
After the Singularity, humans will supposedly live for a very long time, if not forever. And we will build spaceships using nanobots that assemble it from carbon atoms on up. I am always suspicious of...
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The Geopolitics of our Post-Election Hangover
November 2nd has come and gone. With a firm Republican House and an evenly divided Senate, Obama will be unable to push his domestic agenda any further. I’m willing to bet that he saw this coming. It’s...
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Predicting GPS and the Internet
“Most statements in ordinary conversation that contain implicit predictions about the distant future are mainly concerned with current issues,” he says. “This also applies to most fiction and...
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Surprising news about American religious life
There’s another Pew Research Center paper examining religion in America. Since they employ something that resembles reliable, rigorous methodology, I’m interested. With each report summary, I come away...
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Bin Laden in a Blender
Osama Bin Ladin is dead. Got it. Now that we have a concrete detail down, let’s smoosh some Silly Putty into it. Some Predictions I remember the early 2000's... A sitting president has personally...
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Beyond Utopias and Dystopias
The natural American tendency toward crude, binary thinking means we usually choose between techno-hippies in silver unitards or a bands of people dug-into post-apocalyptia, resisting the onslaught of...
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Luck is Invisible
A recurring theme is the notion that we play this game with loaded dice. A bunch of cultural and material benefits constitute those bootstraps we boast about. I suspect that our sense of worth and our...
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