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Category Archives: Technology and Society
Damn You, Auto Correct!
These are pretty funny. It’s actually pretty amusing that there’s a whole site devoted to this.
[Via Geek Press]
Will The Future Of Space…?
…belong to corporations?
Another Reason to Take Aspirin
Obama’s Sputnik Moment
Jonah Goldberg points out the absurdity of it. Here’s a similar piece I wrote a couple years ago on the thirty-ninth anniversary of the first Apollo landing, on why solving the energy problem is completely unlike going to the moon.
The Lifeboat Foundation
…is holding an end-of-the-year fund raiser. It’s a worthy cause. Unless, you know, you hate humanity.
New Course On Space
A new course has been added to the LaunchSpace catalog. Doesn’t look like it’s worth attending, though — the course instructor probably doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Healing Burns
…with stem cells.
I don’t think that people really appreciate the potential for life extension and rejuvenation from these technologies, or its societal implications (including entitlements, and lifetime tenure).
[Update a couple minutes later]
Aubrey de Grey versus David Brin on the subject.
[Monday afternoon update]
Life expectancy of 200 years and beyond?
[Bumped]
Future Filters
Thoughts from Robin Hanson. Ignoring space settlement, one of the reasons I want us to become spacefaring is to make it more affordable to answer questions like this. With low-cost access both to orbit and beyond, we could do some pretty spectacular exploration of, say, Europa.
Dennis Wingo
…has started a blog.