With each passing moment we are moving towards what can and will be. We have walked backwards our whole lives. How could we possibly ever stop? What other choice is there? If we stop, then the future...
To take a specific example, consider a crystal ball that can discern the future but cannot predict the outcome. Unless there is another crystal ball nearby that is able to tell us how the crystal...
For most of us, the period prior to our own appearance is an inexhaustible mystery, an unreachable horizon where whole movements and figures emerge. The past and the future are one and the same. We...
What doesn’t replace a vine existing in a world with a level of complexity all to itself isn’t alive. You may be saying, ”That’s what Darwinian selection is all about! There...
”The jumbo pigeon is an extremely rare event which, due to the sheer amount of pigeons which die each year, almost never happens, and in case of a jumbo pigeon event, is highly unlikely to...
”Rather than asking people to decide what future is the most important to them, we preferred asking them to talk with each other about what they valued most in life.” Teksti on generoitu...
”We’re not so different from bees, or apes, or Neanderthals, and it’s important to think about the things that we want, and are afraid, to lose.” Teksti on generoitu GPT-2...
Everyone gets bored of the same old books; what new information are we missing? What new ideas could we have about how we go about doing things? The Scanner display on the bottom-right of the datapad...
Download the Summer 2007 issue: Anthropocene: A Radical Plan for a Post-Carbon Earth Download the Autumn 2006 issue: Using Humans as Lifelines Download the Summer 2005 issue: System Change and...
”It is to symbolise the way in which we need to return, when a dimly heard cry sounds all around us, to the consciousness of those philosophers who thought about what things might be like if we...