Dreams our stuff is made of

small plug for an event which could steal the title (though not content) from Tom Disch’s look back at science fiction – as I just did above. Not sure why they picked on Asimov, but should be an interesting discussion. (Psychohistory? Nostradamus with knobs on)
Future visions
Science fiction has inspired generations of scientists and engineers. But [...]

taming the climate beast

Another book on the current pile…
Robert Kunzig and Wally Broecker’s Fixing Climate (out from Profile in the UK in a day or three as a paperback original).
A well put together scientific memoir of the guy (Broecker) who did most to persaude that climate change can, on occasion, be a) large and b) rapid. That’s [...]

converging on what?

First of occasional notes on new books on futuristic subjects…
One of the common themes in discussions of the singularity is that trends apparently under way in different areas will interact, and reinforce each other. It is not just that computers are getting smaller and faster, cell biology is unravelling how molecules build organisms, or nanotechnologists [...]

(Second) lives to come

Jeez, not sure how almost a month went since last posting here. Have been writing quite hard, but the point of doing this as well is to feed into the writing – and vice versa – so I am resolved to post more often to help that along.
Which may evoke some more random [...]