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...

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...

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...