( Crossposted from Sentient Developments ) A UK Ministry of Defence thinktank led by Rear Admiral Chris Parry, a controversial senior officer, has outlined a number of challenges British forces might face in the period up to 2035. In its rolling Strategic Read More...

I just finished reading Jamais Cascio 's excellent new column, " The Geoengineering Option ," in which he argues that terraforming the planet may be a necessary evil to combat the effects of global warming. Cascio writes, "The early Read More...

I watched Minority Report for the umpteenth time this evening and kept track of the various futuristic elements that were portrayed in the film. Most of the ideas are quite plausible, and this is not by accident. During pre-production, Speilberg assembled Read More...

Humans and human institutions are clearly failing the planet. And when environmental catastrophes finally hit the tipping point, panicked societies will start to fail humanity itself. Preventing global warming, it would seem, is not just about preserving Read More...

A growing suspicion is coalescing among some transhumanists, futurists and cosmologists about how the finely tuned aspects of the universe seem to implying that something great awaits humanity in the future. The sense of there being a cosmologically prescribed Read More...

ENHANCE is a specific targeted research project put together by the EU that examines the ethics of human enhancement within cognitive enhancement , life extension , mood enhancement , and physical performance . The goal of the project is to reach a deeper Read More...

DARPA , the advanced concepts research group voted most likely to destroy the Earth, has come up with a bizarre futuristic idea for the Pentagon. They want to create an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and Read More...

Stewart Brand of the Long Now Foundation has organized a series of seminars which he hopes will build a "coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic Read More...

Looks like the peril of nanotechnology and biotechnology is the topic de jour around ye ol' blogosphere these days. Salon got the existential ball of doom rolling last week by publishing I, Nanobot (abstract: Scientists are on the verge of breaking the Read More...

Unsatisfied with both the Precautionary Principle and its bipolar cousin, the Proactionary Principle , World Changing 's Jamais Cascio has come up with what he considers a reasonable compromise: the Reversibility Principle : "When considering the development Read More...