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Driverless Future Approaches 20 Aug 2013 | 08:45 am
From Science Daily: First Driverless Vehicle to Hit the Roads Singapore’s first clean and green driverless shuttle transportation system will soon see passengers shuttling between Nanyang Technologi...
Background on the Men Who Sold the Moon 16 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
Related to this week’s The World Transformed — here is some background on the billionaires we’ll be discussing as well as their achievements. Technology: Vanity or visionary? As the son of an angel ...
A Question for Patternists 13 Aug 2013 | 09:59 am
On last week’s World Transformed, we talked about parallel universes in their various theoretical permutations. (This piece on Better All the Time walks through the various levels that we discussed on...
Infinite Universes 12 Aug 2013 | 10:13 pm
New findings suggest that our universe is not the only one. It may be one of many, or one of an infinite number of universes. Phil and Stephen discuss the implications. Does it matter if there’s more ...
Seven Questions About the Future 9 Aug 2013 | 09:50 am
Ten years ago, in the early primordial days of The Speculist, I came up with a list of 7 questions that I thought could help us shape an ongoing conversation about the future. Whenever I did a Speculi...
Evidence of Other Universes 7 Aug 2013 | 02:25 am
The Planck space observatory has provided us the clearest and most complete picture of the early universe we have ever had, a composite picture of the background radiation of the entire sky. Interesti...
Doctors and Travel Agents 5 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
Nick Van Terheyden has some interesting speculation about the future of health care in a piece written for fast Company with the title Could The Future Of Health Care Mean No Waits In Hospitals? He h...
And We’re back 4 Aug 2013 | 09:06 am
We just passed the the 10th anniversary of The Speculist, and I think I know how I want to mark the occasion. This is too good a site to let it go fallow. I’m bringing the Speculist back. Speculist ...
The Future of ISMs 3 Aug 2013 | 09:16 am
The future isn’t just about technological change. Some of the biggest changes we have ever seen and can expect ever to see occur in the realm of ideas. With that in mind, hosts Phil and Stephen conte...
Dumb Movies, Smart Futures 2 Aug 2013 | 09:13 am
Phil and Stephen discuss the future of humanity as portrayed in some of the summer’s biggest movies as well as some older films. It’s all right here.
