CONTRARY BRIN

LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

If you won't listen to Paine, or Adam Smith, or Marx, or history - this fellow might scare the Dickens... And Are There ANY Republican stand-ups?

I've long urged friends and acquaintances who are on the more privileged side of life – specifically those who rationalize that today’...

Saturday, July 05, 2025

To make next July 4 a true Independence Day - How About a Little Paine? Thomas Paine.

== Americans hate history == Half of us are too future-obsessed to care much about dusty past dates and dustier past 'heroes.' The...

Thursday, July 03, 2025

Missing contexts for AI: The context of mental damage

Okay, the secret is out. David Brin is writing a book about AI. In fact, it is 3/4 done, enough to offer it to publishers. But more cruciall...

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Oh, those misleading teleologies about "progress" - and a few political notes

And now... some intellectual stuff, if that's what you are holding-out for! And yes, for those of you who blithely use the terms '...

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David Brin: is a scientist, futurist and best-selling author. His novels include Earth, Existence, The Postman, and Kiln People, as well as Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War. The Transparent Society won a Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Assn.

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