Global Warming Resolution
This is not a Biblical tale of the Second Flood. Nor is it a tale of our sun phase-shifting into a red giant that swells with the ejecta of helium fusion until it burns all the water off the face of t...
24 Apr 16min
First O'Neill Cylinder Construction
We feel certain that humanity will settle outer space -- a lifeless, hostile void -- and yet we have made little attempt to build cities under the ocean, where there is wildlife, water, oxygen, and mi...
17 Apr 16min
Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication
Sounds crazy, but people are working on it. We have cybernetic prosthetic limbs. We have make-believe neural tissue running on servers and chatting with us in the voice of Pee-wee Herman. Can it be to...
10 Apr 18min
Digital Currencies Replacing Paper Currencies Worldwide
A purely digital economy would be a purely controlled economy. No one would be playing outside the game, making deals with briefcases full of dollar bills.But do we want people making deals with brief...
3 Apr 14min
Comprehensive ICBM Missile Defense
Just checked the Doomsday Clock from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and it reads 85 seconds to midnight, the closest to disaster it has ever been, yet the idea of a nuclear war seems more far-...
27 Mar 14min
Geopolitics in the 2040s
Extrapolating from today's U.S. government policies, AI has a vision for a changed world order in the 2040s. Who will come out on top? The Kingdom of Denmark?Read the full scenario: Geopolitics in the...
20 Mar 19min
Faster-Than-light Spacecraft
Faster-than-light spaceships could be coming as early as 2100, or... not? A second prediction in the database says FTL travel is impossible.How can Strategic Farsight publish both predictions? Which s...
13 Mar 23min
Mainstream Holographic Televisions
No, not 3D goggles. Not big blocks of glass with 3D images inside. We're talking lifelike 3D images broadcast into the open air. Is this really possible? How?As a sci-fi writer, I have avoided such te...
6 Mar 14min
