Tag: opinion

All the articles with the tag "opinion".

• It’s a distributed future

  Published:Sep 22, 2017 |  at 01:54 PM

  It’s a distributed future. Beneath all the hype about global warming and other boogie monsters, people are working from the bottom up to to build a new world.

• Filter Bubbles, Warring City-States and Utopias

  Published:Sep 18, 2017 |  at 09:54 PM

  Look forward to a world of city-states where people on the political left and people on the political right live separately. And maybe not just in separate mental spheres, telling themselves different stories about what’s happening in the world, but living in separate cities. Maybe even cities that are at war with each other, like in ancient Greece.

• About your Automated Future

  Published:Feb 24, 2015 |  at 05:04 PM

  Pundits increasingly agree that we can expect a future where we simultaneously enjoy material abundance and suffer from a lack of employment opportunities. Robots, including software, will replace workers - even skilled workers such as lawyers and computer programmers.

• Is War Part of the Human Condition?

  Published:Feb 17, 2015 |  at 06:51 AM

  Is war inevitable? Is it a part of the human condition? Can we end all war, forever? Should we even try? What would stories be without war, the largest, most tense and free-ranging form of conflict ever?

• Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions

  Published:Apr 7, 2008 |  at 12:40 PM

• The Peninsula of Infinite Possibilities

  Published:Apr 4, 2008 |  at 12:40 PM

  For a person that chooses to think positively, all roads are open.

• Election Day in Medellin

  Published:May 28, 2002 |  at 12:40 PM

  Yesterday was a beautiful day here in Medellin. The spring rains let up for the elections and the normal blue skies returned. At 10AM the novia and I were downtown watching the military helicopters circling above and waiting in line so she could vote.