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The Great Filter, can we be smarter than other advanced civilizations?

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Dec 24, 2012. 0 Replies 2 Likes

100 Billion planets in the Milky Way Galaxy, and not one signal from another advanced civilization?…Continue

Tags: climate desatbilization, The Great Silence, The Great Filter, anoxic events, fossil fuel formation

Going Extinct Scenarios from Cracked.com

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Steph S. Jun 23, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes

The 5 Most Likely Ways Humans Will Become Obsolete(Written in May 2009 but it sounds like…Continue

Tags: technological singularity, humor

Upon which theories of change do you rely?

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Steph S. Apr 6, 2012. 3 Replies 1 Like

Sara Robison clarifies thinking about the future in Why Change Happens: Ten Theories.Because we each…Continue

Stephen Wolfram's take

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Mar 12, 2012. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Will machine intelligence soon take over here? Has it already done so in the Milky Way?Wolfram thinks ETs will not want to travel to Earth - or anywhere else for that matter. In Wolfram's view,…Continue

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Comment by AtheistTech on October 7, 2011 at 7:25am: http://wfs.org/ The World Future Society

Comment by maniaNOUS on April 30, 2011 at 5:11am: Glad to have found this group!! :)

Comment by AtheistTech on January 29, 2011 at 6:18pm: Our best hope for a cheap and safe trip to low Earth orbit:

http://www.isec.info/

Comment by Alan Meigs on January 18, 2011 at 7:15pm: This sounds like a wonderful place to be, people who actually think and dream about the future :)

Comment by Sarah Walton on September 24, 2010 at 6:30pm: Oh yes, that was intended to be quite sarcastic. Crimes have been committed by people in power against people I know over data.

Comment by Loren Miller on September 24, 2010 at 2:53pm: You're kidding, right, Sarah? If history has taught us anything, it teaches that if something is of value or perceived to be of value, it can and will be fought over. This has been true of land, religion, ideology, and oil, among too many other things. Data may be somewhat less PHYSICAL, but it is no less substantial, and the very gearing that many nations including the US are doing right now to prepare for cyber-warfare demonstrates that the potential for conflict over data is already with us.

Comment by Sarah Walton on September 24, 2010 at 2:39pm: Can we all just agree now; no blood for data?
http://www.travolution.co.uk/articles/2010/09/24/3966/futurist-pred...

Comment by J waggoner on July 24, 2010 at 9:14am: I feel cybernetics and biotechnology is future of the world and our species.

Comment by coyote on February 9, 2010 at 7:32pm: Has anyone read about perflourocarbons as a temporary blood substitute? I hope we can someday come up with something that works in a similar way that is more permanent...,

Comment by coyote on February 9, 2010 at 7:30pm: I joined this group, because I constantly think about how badly I want to live forever just to see what will happen.....