Entries tagged with: Philosophy

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Pantheon

"We are as gods and might as well get good at it." -- Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968. Stewart Brand's observation has simultaneously enchanted, terrified, and driven me ever since I first heard it (probably some 20-25 years...

Posted on November 17, 2011 3:24 PM

"Win the Future"

If you watched the American State of the Union address last night, in part or in total, you couldn't have escaped noticing one particular phrase: "win the future." President Obama used it (or "winning the future") nine times in the...

Posted on January 26, 2011 10:05 AM

Neodicy

Warren Ellis did me the great honor of asking me to write a piece for his website, on whatever topic was on my mind. This is what resulted. You can see the posting at Warren's place here; I've reproduced it...

Posted on December 14, 2010 12:45 PM

A Dilemma

Is something still meaningful and true, even when it's been turned into a marketing slogan? (Spotted in London, in the window of a brand marketing agency.)...

Posted on June 24, 2010 3:36 AM

Fifteen Minutes into the Future

One of the hardest things to grapple with as a futurist is the sheer banality of tomorrow. We live our lives, dealing with everyday issues and minor problems. Changes rarely shock; more often, they startle or titillate, and very quickly...

Posted on May 21, 2008 3:52 PM

Life and Love in the Uncanny Valley

There's a story I've seen about a philosopher who bet an engineer that he could make a robot that the engineer couldn't destroy. What the philosopher produced was a tiny little thing, covered in fur, that would squeak when touched...

Posted on December 12, 2006 2:17 PM

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