It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all... →
Clay Shirky
By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College.... →
Amity Shlaes
Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge... →
Seth Shostak
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic... →
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of... →
Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the... →
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more... →
Gary Shteyngart
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society... →
Elisabeth Shue
We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.
Chen Shui-bian
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And... →
George P. Shultz