Since it is the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, I thought I would share my thoughts about what Star Trek…
Category The Future
At the end of 2015, I wrote about a newly discovered exoplanet called Wolf 1061c. This was a big deal…
As the year comes to an end most people do one of two things. They either look back on this…
Yesterday was Back to The Future Day — The day that the fictional character, Marty McFly traveled from 1985 to…
How much is the future worth? Don’t answer that, it is a rhetorical question. I ask it because I recently…
Politicians are always bragging about how they have a plan to create jobs and their opponent’s plan is a job…
Religious believers often tell me that atheism is my religion and even some atheists claim that they would not want religion eliminated because atheism is their identity and without religion to argue against they would lose that identity. Is atheism my religion and my identity? Wouldn’t I want to stop the elimination of religion to preserve my identity?
Last week, NASA successfully launched the Orion spacecraft into high planetary orbit and returned it safely to the Earth. Even though this was just a test flight, it still had a great deal of significance to me.
About a year ago, I read a news story about a proposal to give every citizen in Switzerland $2800 as a basic income. I remember talking about this with my progressive friends and to my surprise I was the only one who really thought this was a great idea. Sure, critics could easily point out that idea would obviously sound great to me because I am a stay-at-home dad who works a part-time retail job making slightly above minimum wage, but that isn’t why I actually liked the idea.
One hundred years from now we will be dead but it is entirely probable that our children may still be alive. I say “probable” and “may” because it really depends in large part to who wins the culture war. For simplicity sake, let’s look at the two opposing worldviews and see which one offers the best hope for our future.