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Resilience Science Many scientists around the world believe that we need to focus on ways of making our urban and natural environments more resilient. So what is the idea of resilience science? And how can it help deal with future environmental challenges? An interview with Dr Brian Walker, chair of the (...)

David Brin On Surveillance and Privacy We are in for a time of major decision-making as the Moore’s Law of Cameras (sometimes called “Brin’s Corollary to Moore’s Law”) takes hold and elites of all kinds are tempted to utilize surveillance in Orwellian/controlling ways, often with rationalized good (...)

Visualizing Global Population Growth The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you’ll (...)

Andrew Maynard Rethinking Nanotechnology Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year. The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now. I got mine in in the nick of (...)

2010 Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds Conference

About 30 persons attended the ASIM 2010 Conference, satellite to the Singularity Summit 2010, San Francisco, August 16-17th. Besides the participants in San Francisco, about 25 remote participants attended online in Teleplace.

The videos of ASIM 2010 talks and discussions have been posted to (...)

IEET is Rocking the Intertubes In the last year our web traffic has doubled.

J. Hughes Skrying Excremental Fans from Idaho and Manhattan With the US facing a possible double dip recession, and a resurgent far right political movement poised to sweep into Congress in the Fall elections, I found myself reading two strangely complementary dystopian novels about economic collapse. The first, Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the (...)

Maria Korolov We All Live in a Virtual World The IEET’s Mike Treder recently asked a loaded question: “If you could live in a world that was just the way you wanted it to be, with specifications you’d chosen, customized and personalized to meet your every need and fulfill your fondest desires, would you spend all your time there? Or (...)

Michael Gold Crowd-Viewing the Moon: September 18 You are cordially invited to what might be called a worldwide moon-up.

David Brin The Conversion of a Noted Ostrich Bjørn Lomborg has apparently changed his mind, and now thinks that global warming is the number one planetary crisis priority.

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