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Is literacy in danger because of technology? Will students stop reading and writing all together because they spend lots of time on the computer? I have talked to some parents who legitimately worry about their children slipping away from...
POSTED Friday, December 18, 2009

We left the UN with a sense of wonder at the realization that we had been part of something truly special. We left with the idea that maybe we could do something to start changing the world. But we...
POSTED Thursday, October 8, 2009

We, all of us, have the responsibility to buy the extra time, which will maybe ensure our survival as a civilization. And I have been wondering what we can do about it. The human species with its genius and...
POSTED Thursday, October 1, 2009

At the World Science Festival in June, Mary McDonnell said, with visible emotion, “I no longer suffer from the illusion that we have a lot of time. On a spiritual and political plane, I’d like to be of better...
POSTED Thursday, September 24, 2009

If you aren’t already following Visions for Tomorrow on Twitter, then hit us up! We’ll be tweeting live from yet another Battlestar Galactica panel with cast members from the show. The topic this time? The science, ethics and philosophy...
POSTED Friday, June 12, 2009

If you know about the TED conference, it won’t surprise you that I’ve been a big fan for a long time. For more than 20 years, the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference has sparked our imaginations with “ideas worth sharing” by...
POSTED Tuesday, February 3, 2009

In early October, a small asteroid, about the size of a VW bug, impacted Earth coming in over Sudan. It was very special. This sort of event happens every several months on average, so just why was this one...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008

How can you save the world? Play more games. Not just any game will work. You’ll need to focus your gameplay efforts carefully, on games like Left 4 Dead, Rock Band, World of Warcraft, Little Big Planet, SF0, Halo...
POSTED Wednesday, October 29, 2008

One of the most important ways to work for a better future is to improve communications between and among people. With all the instant media available today, we could foresee a future in which we can reach out to...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008

Science has always mattered to those of us old enough to realize how much society has achieved in a relatively short amount of time. The question becomes: are we creating a culture to ensure that the hearts and minds...
POSTED Monday, August 4, 2008

Industrial and scientific development in the void of space that surrounds our delicate planet is a key to ensuring our ability to carry on living on Earth at all over the next century. Satellites circling the planet already deliver...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008

After the brilliant landing of the Phoenix on Mars, how can we not open this series of discussion postings other than with thoughts about exploring the Red Planet?! First, some thoughts on exploration itself… Exploration is expanding human experience,...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008

The current system of education in the U.S. and most of the industrialized countries revolves around a factory mentality that was designed to serve the industrial era. Just as the assembly line worked for producing goods, it was thought...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008

In the vast figurative plain of self-imposed reprehensibility, I am guilty of the inexcusable folly of being a practicing Albuquerque-ian prairie dog watcher. How is it that I have in such short time managed to implicate myself in this...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008