Category: science

• Podcast interview about how technology shapes society

  I went on the Future Fossils podcast to discuss what the future extrapolated in the Analog Novels can teach us about the present: http://shows.pippa.io/futurefossils/episodes/115 “We haven’t figured out the new societies we want to build, given the new realities we’ve already invented.” “If you start thinking about the entire internet as an AI, then Google…

• Science empowers us by stripping away our delusions of power

  In my latest column for NEO.LIFE, I explore how science forces us to confront generations of human hubris by revealing the awe-inspiring size and complexity of the universe we are lucky enough to inhabit: https://neo.life/2018/12/the-real-way-science-empowers-us/ Complement with Daniel Suarez on the power and consequences of CRISPR, how to make sense of the future, and how science…