Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be... →
Seth Shostak
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will... →
The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the... →
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of... →
Alex Shoumatoff
As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we... →
Jason Silva
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve... →
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind... →
Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we... →