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another look at alien technology
We generally tend to assume that if an alien species on some faraway world contacted us, it would have to be a good deal farther along in its technological development than we are. After all, they...
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ray kurzweil’s exponential mythology
Illustration from Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow Every enthusiastic movement needs a catchphrase and a talking point used to rebuff critics in one swoop. For the Technological Singularity...
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the skeptic’s guide to the singularity
Whenever I write about Ray Kurzweil and the imminent paradigm shifts in technology and human evolution he predicts will happen in the next few decades, I always get a stream of very critical feedback...
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cheating your way to future greatness. maybe.
You would think that were we to find ourselves back in time, our high literacy, knowledge of germ theory and a basic grounding in sciences that were still revolutionary several hundred years ago,...
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singularitarians, start your starships!
Illustration by Pavel Dedik A few months ago, science fiction and fantasy writer Charles Stross tackled the mechanics of spaceships and the problems with colonizing space on his blog and came up with...
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the technological singularity, revisited again
Illustration by Jason Boog Chances are that many of you either heard of Skeptically Speaking or tune in on a regular basis. For the 52nd episode of the show, yours truly made a brief appearance to...
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mixing technology and evolution yet again…
Jerry Coyne recently reviewed technophile Kevin Kelly’s new book about the evolution of technology and in his synopsis points out the aggravating tech trope of confusing biological evolution with...
View Articleof new tech, big promises, and mixed results
When we last mentioned the self-aggrandizing ways of tech marketing, especially when it comes to all the perpetual startups and their financiers in Silicon Valley, a place where you’re called a...
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technophobia is alive, well, and still wrong
Since the dawn of industrial technology there have been those who looked at any new tool or idea and said it was dangerous and totally degrading to humanity as a whole. From early opponents of...
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