Ted Swarts British Columbia Rarely a day goes by in which I don’t mention the looming fossil fuel shortage to acquaintances or people I’ve met in passing, on plane flights […]
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Timothy Wilken Introduction and Rationale Today, most humans solve their problems as individuals or at best as nuclear families. They meet their individual needs with individual actions. At best they […]
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N. Arthur Coulter, MD As every schoolboy knows, geometry is based on a number of fundamental statements called axioms and postulates. Indeed, all of mathematics is so based. These were […]
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Timothy Wilken Bjorn Lomborg, Ph.D., associate professor in statistics, Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark, is a concerned environmentalist, a former Greenpeace member, a left-wing sympathizer who is vegetarian […]
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N. Arthur Coulter, MD A science of synergy has tremendous implications for mankind. From the standpoint of the individual, it will enable him to turn on the synergic mode whenever […]
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Michael A. Bukatin The concept of Technological Singularity was introduced by Vernor Vinge. Scientists are divided on whether the full-scale artificial intelligence is possible. Let’s presume for this scenario, that […]
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Ron Patterson Arthur, thanks for the kind words yesterday, but I cannot quite agree with your assessment of when and where the population will stabilize: You wrote: “Where will population stabilize? […]
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Timothy Wilken If the human population continued growing at the rate seen in 1990, the world would tally 694 billion people by the year 2150, the United Nations predicts. But […]
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Vernor Vinge The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to […]
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Thomas H. Greco, Jr. MONEY IS THE VITAL MEDIUM within which we live our economic lives. It is the central element around which many of our interpersonal relationships are organized. […]
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