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This is a reply in an exchange with another critic, this one making the now endlessly familiar complaints that I am not giving people enough...

Upgraded and adapted from an interesting ongoing exchange in the Moot to this post with "summerspeaker" (whose comments are itali...

Twitter is the telegraph of the impending Singularity. — Rachel Lichtman In his excellent book The Victorian Internet , Tom Standage propos...

FinanceAddict : [It s]ounds a bit like a science fiction novel; are the financial algorithms, models and computers taking over from their hu...

I've noticed that transhumanists and singularitarians and techno-immortalists will sometimes attempt in public to engage in what I call ...

one Identify an outcome normally attributable to magic (immortality, invisibility, free treasure, secret super-knowledge, love potion, mind...

It's time for more Very Serious Futurology from the stealth Robot Cult outfit IEET, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (...

Also posted at The World Future Society. io9 asks: Could SpaceX Land the First Humans On Mars? I would like the short answer to be: ...

I find it highly curious that in the aftermath of Charlie Stross's recent harsh criticisms of transhumanism the Very Serious Futurologis...

Giulio Prisco sure has him some interesting views : Carrico's "arguments" boil down to "You are a filthy Robot Cultist, s...

Peter Wicks [corrected], one of the Very Serious Futurologists at the stealth Robot Cult outfit IEET (the Institute for Ethics and Emerging ...

Also posted at the World Future Society . Eric and I got haircuts yesterday afternoon, and while I was waiting I flipped through magazines...

The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial vessel to successfully dock with the International Space Station. I will admit that with this...

Did the Segway change the way we think of cities? The people saying the one now are exactly like the ones -- when they are not in fact liter...

I have developed a number of handouts summarizing useful information or providing a framework for workshopping writing problems for my stude...

A thesis is a claim. It is a statement of the thing your paper is trying to show your own readers about a text you have read. Very often, t...

Upgraded and adapted from an exchange in the Moot with Ian, prompted by my post a couple of days ago worrying about a tragic and dangerous f...

In an article published a few days ago in the transhumanoid rag hplusmagazine (that's human-plus! for all you mere human-minuses out th...

Libertopian Tyler Cowen coos appreciatively about the so-called "economics of geo-engineering" (whereupon Ezra Klein's wonkbl...