The world is in crisis, or so many believe. The economy is still down in most parts of the world. Global Warming is an unaddressed looming danger. We are slowly nearing the end of our fossil fuels. We are becoming overpopulated. Therefore, I have come up with a simple solution that will solve all of these problems. The economies of all the major industrial powers should be altered and geared toward space exploration. This idea may seem ludicrous at first. However, if we carefully ...
I read a fantastic young adult novel called Feed recently by M.T. Anderson. There are a lot of claims it makes about the future we could be leading to, but the most interesting to me was this: Is the Internet making us less intelligent? First, let's put this in context. Right now more people can read on this planet than in all of human history. When we look back fondly on great minds that influenced the world, it should be remembered that those great minds were part of a very ...