Archive for the 'Futurist Posts' Category
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 [...]
Thoughts from the night before
Six years ago tomorrow my alarm clock, set to NPR news, delivered me into a waking nightmare.
Sometimes I am still convinced it must be a bad dream - its hard to believe we squandered the outpouring of world support, mired ourselves in a pointless war when we should have given the Middle East [...]
Worth Watching
Figures that as soon as I mention how I almost never watch TV (so I have time to write), I’d get caught up in a show. I took four hours out of my life to watch “God’s Warrior’s” on CNN, an excellent bit of investigative reporting by Christiane Amanpour. The series was three [...]
2007 State of the Future
I just got my copy of the Millenium Project’s 2007 State of the Future. I was a participant in the study this year - which I really felt honored by when I was asked. I’m not quite sure how the invitation found me….maybe via Futurist.com or a board I’m a member of [...]
Interview Posted
Blogger Naina from India both recommended The Silver Ship and the Sea, and also did an email interview with me which is posted on the web. I really love this small world, and I love the idea that someone from India might like my work and want to talk to me about it, and [...]
Brian Greene Lecture Notes
Just went and watched Brian Greene give a fabulous lecture at McCaw Hall. I’ve listened to a lot of scientist and futurist lecturers, and I really don’t think I’ve ever had more fun. He makes tough science not only fun, but pretty easy to “get” at a high level.
He started out by describing [...]
