Author: Timothy Wilken

Scott Meredith the moderator at Alas Babylon Yahoogroup asks a question, and Tom Robertson, moderator at the  Energy Resources Yahoogroup answers. Scott Meredith I still still still just don’t get it. Yesterday […]

Don Steehler sent me a note to take a look at the writings of Tom Robertson at the  Energy Resources Yahoogroup. Tom Robertson The note below marks this month as […]

Martin L. W. Hall, Ph. D. The more that people organize in groups, the more that we have to find new ways to do things. The explosion of travel and […]

Ray Kurzweil is one of our most brilliant scientists and technologists. I very much enjoyed his book The Age of Spirtual Machines. He will soon publish a sequel which will […]

Save Millions of Lives Around Bengal and make that region prosperously productive   Win Wenger, Ph.D. The northern end of the Bay of Bengal shallows in such a way that […]

Peter A. Corning, Ph.D. “What is complexity”, asks author-journalist George Johnson in a recent “Science Times,” the science section of The New York Times (May 5, 1997)? Below the headline, […]

The following is a summary of a much longer report. Mathis Wackernagel, Larry Onisto, Alejandro Callejas Linares, Ina Susana Lopez Falfan, Jesus Mendex Garcia, Ana Isabel Suarez Guerrero, Maria Guadalupe […]

Timothy Wilken Recently, the concept of memes has been presented here. Recall synergic scientist N. Arthur Coulter‘s warning that we were caught in THE MACHINE. Held there by powerful protodynes and sociodynes. A protodyne is a strong […]

John Robb Did the Internet enable a new economy?  I think the latest evidence says that it has.  But it isn’t the new economy corporate America expected. Since 1993, the economic […]

One of the problems with a belief in Human Neutrality is that it causes great apathy. If I am truly independent, then I have no duty to family, community,  Life or the Earth […]