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The Arc of Change

There’s an afterword by writer Howard Rodman to one of his own short stories where he speaks to the idea of the arc of the technological change we experience in a lifetime. It’s a topic I’ve given much thought to over the years, and I was a little surprised to see some of my own …[MORE]

The Age of Stupid

I stumbled across this movie trailer. I’ve never heard of the film, but since it was a UK release and documents the way the world whistled through the early signs of global warming until it was too late to do anything about it, I’m guessing it had only a very limited US showing. I’m a big …[MORE]

Do You Want to Live Forever?

A friend recently told me about an interesting podcast he’d heard. The subject was medical advances in the field of human longevity. The premise was that medical and technological advances would soon outpace the extended lifetimes they produced, potentially resulting in a human lifespan of a thousand years or more. In fact it was suggested …[MORE]