CONTRARY BRIN

LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE

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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Transmissions through time? Plus news from the climate front … plus tons 'o sci news…

== Transmissions from tomorrow? == It can be fun to toy with the idea of transmissions through time. Gregory Benford's TIMESCAPE ...

Thursday, May 08, 2014

Are our politics predestined? Will "progress" reach an end? Plus… More science!

Can a machine tell whether you are liberal or conservative? There have been a lot of articles lately, revealing the light that science has ...

Monday, May 05, 2014

Hawking vs the Terminator! Plus BASIC at 50! Blood Moons! Americans are weird! Plus… more science!

Stephen Hawking, plus physicists Max Tegmark and Frank Wilczek and AI expert Stuart Russell, have penned an editorial -- Transcending Comp...

Friday, May 02, 2014

Defying Godzilla… and other "games"!

First some sci fi news! Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds hit bookstores on April 30th. Terrific stories dedicated to one...

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Will improved “vision” make us even better than we are?

Facebook's acquisition of the Oculus company shows that big players are starting to take Augmented Reality (AR) glasses seriously --...

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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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