Timothy Wilken In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the Sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved around the Sun. His paper […]
Continue readingThe Material World: Is That All There Is?
Raymond Kurzweil discusses the concept of pattern in this excerpt from the last chapter of the new online book Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil In their foreword, George Gilder and […]
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Wendy Priesnitz Much of the developed world is facing an economic, social and political crisis. The financial and emotional gaps between the rich and the poor are growing. Child poverty […]
Continue readingThe Evolution of Mind in the Twenty-First Century
Ray Kurzweil is one of our most brilliant scientists and technologists. I very much enjoyed his book The Age of Spiritual Machines. He has just published a sequel Are We […]
Continue readingMoney as a Social Disease
In 1997, at the time the following essay was written, we were still in the strong rise of perhaps the greatest bull market. Korten’s prediction of a coming failure of the American […]
Continue readingFrom Urban Sprawl to Sustainable Human Communities
The tone of the following essays is somewhat optimistic while speaking to some serious problems facing humanity–far too many people and not adequate or sustainable housing. The first essay was written […]
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Mark Hertsgaard The bad news is that we have to change our ways–and fast. Here’s the good news: it could be a hugely profitable enterprise. So what do we do? […]
Continue readingWhat Does It Mean to Be You?
Win Wenger If we do proceed on the presently questionable assumptions that we ARE individually unique and that our choices and actions DO have significant meaning, we have at least […]
Continue readingOnly Integrity is Going to Count
R. Buckminster Fuller That’s why I talk about integrity. Integrity of the individual is what we’re being judged for and if we are not passing that examination, we don’t really […]
Continue readingAccelerating Acceleration
Reposted from the Buckminster Fuller Institute. R. Buckminster Fuller And we’re at a point where I now have what would seem absolutely incredible to generations before. I’ve now completed thirty-seven […]
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