Archive for the 'Futurist Posts' Category
Human Selection
This is the second installment in a set of blog posts about my current science fiction series. The first book, THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, is now available in paperback. The sequel, READING THE WIND, will be out on July 22nd. Each post explores one way the books address a problem we are also [...]
Where I’m Interviewed for ItBusinessEdge
I’m the star of an interview for ItBusinessEdge. While I’ve been interviewed for a lot of technology articles, and periodically for our local paper, and even been in an interactive futurist blog session for the Washington Post, I’ve never seen a taped interview dumped so literally onto a page. It reads like I talk in a casual conversation at [...]
A Wild World
This is the first installment in a series of blog posts about my current science fiction series. The first book, THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, is now available in paperback. The sequel, READING THE WIND, will be out on July 22nd. Each post in the series explores one way the books address a problem [...]
Reading Recommendation: Good Daily Newspapers
The futurist and the writer in me adore the morning paper. Why?
It’s an industry that matters - read it online or get ink on your fingers. But we need a free press, and while the blogosphere is a grand part of that, we need press that has some funding and staff as well. Think of [...]
Hurray for the Elements of Change
I’m pleased with the price of gas. Change is already happening. Our Mayor came back from a climate conference where one speaker said the measured particulates in the air are already slightly lower since gas went up. He said people cheered. Elementary economics: Price changes behavior.
Global warming warning signs are coming faster and harder than [...]
Reading Recommendation: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Alan Greenspan’s autobiographical look at economics is well worth the read (or whatever - I listened to it as an audiobook). That old saying about discovering the power by following the money is so often true it has become part of the common cliche library. Well, this is a book about money. [...]
Musing on Alan Greenspan’s book, The Age of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan has much in common with many of my favorite classic science fiction writers. Heinlein, Niven, and others claim Libertarian leanings, and so does Greenspan. They are also all pretty smart people that really want to understand the world.
Greenspan’s book is pretty close to a key about how some parts of the [...]
A Little Follow Up
From my last few blogs …
From the September 11th vigil, and relating to future vigils…the Citizens on the Lake for Peace website. Nicely done.
Second…I really think good engineers might save the world some day. Part of that could be because my dad is one, and he saved me a few times…but aside from [...]
Google’s Winning Moon Madness
The space enthusiast in me is really pleased with Google this week, as they’ve announced a prize for getting commercial craft developed to land on the moon. In this case, read that as real people instead of big government. They also picked a nice spot — the moon is close enough. They’re [...]
Thoughts from the night after
So I did go to the vigil last night. It felt like it made September 11 meaningful.
I even took the microphone once, and said something about how we had squandered a great chance for world peace in the year after 9/11 by choosing bombs instead of care packages and education, by choosing guns instead [...]
