CONTRARY BRIN

LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE

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Friday, April 29, 2022

Wormholes, blackholes... and more!

Just returned from my first speaking tour in 2+ years. Vaxxed & masked in public areas but pretty relaxed holding small meetings with br...

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Romanticism & Resentment: Great for art! Terrible for running a civilization

My romantic soul agrees with this vivid howl! (From Robert A. Heinlein's Glory Road .) How vivid, and don't we all... at least in p...

Saturday, April 16, 2022

Anticipating changes for the next few decades... and weeks

“The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ilya Prigogine was fond of saying that the future is not so much determined by what we do in the present ...

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Transparency as the key ingredient to saving the enlightenment experiment: recent examples!

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness." ...

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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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