CONTRARY BRIN

LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE

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Friday, August 05, 2022

Alas, the passing of greats...

An unfortunate roundup of passings.... I note the passing of a science fiction legend. My friend and colleague Eric Flint left us, after a...

Saturday, July 30, 2022

Some great science podcasts - tune in!

Couple of years back we offered a list of excellent – if sometimes specialized – podcasts and YouTube channels about science and related thi...

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Space news: from supermassive black holes to asteroids

Okay, let's gat back to spaaaace! So many reasons to be enthusiastic and to see our shared accomplishments out there as signs of real c...

Friday, July 15, 2022

Sapience, sentience and AI... and other hot science news!

Ah… sapience In another posting here I re-issued my June op-ed in NEWSWEEK about human response to AI, especially ‘empathy bots” like the...

Friday, July 08, 2022

Ways to Corner John Roberts... and why 'cornering' doesn't interest the paladins on our own side

At bottom, below, I'll make (yet-again) my case for agile tactics that might actually win the fight for fact-based rejection of lies. ...

Friday, July 01, 2022

Soon, Humanity Won't Be Alone in the Universe

This opinion piece was published as an invited op-ed in Newsweek June 21, 2022 “It’s alive!” Viktor Frankenstein shouted in that classic 19...

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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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