Broader Perspective

Right now is an exciting time with at least eleven advancing technologies that could have an even bigger impact than the Internet in the ne...

There could be a future where individuals opt to pool all or parts of their consciousness, memory and processing power with those of others ...

In the last few years, a variety of innovative capital markets have arisen to supplement and extend traditional large institutional capital ...

As described in Molecular Assembler Adoption and Molecular Assembler Impact on Society , while the initial roll-out of molecular assemblers...

As long as robots are non-sentient, non-feeling beings, it would only be immoral to kick a robot in the sense of potential property damage t...

A recent post postulated that molecular assembler adoption is not likely to be an overnight roll-out, but more like the S-curve uptake of ...

Can you imagine yourself in competition for resources with ... yourself? There are several future cases where multiple copies of people may ...

Virtual worlds seem to be distinct from the Internet but are really the natural evolution of the web as a communications, commerce, informat...

What would the technology adoption curve for the molecular assembler look like? A molecular assembler is a home appliance which would sit o...

What kinds of policies is an advanced civilization likely to have regarding interacting with other societies it encounters? Thinking of the ...