Posts Tagged ‘energy’

On Shortages, Mostly Food

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I read a lot of news. I read magazines. I follow news blogs. I make a very concerted effort to keep up with what’s going on in the world, and to get the information from several perspectives.
And yet somehow I’ve found myself thinking, quite frequently, over the last month that this whole “food shortage” thing [...]

We’re Living In Science Fiction: Street-Level Nanotech

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

There’s certainly something to be said for wild and crazy, “the universe is my canvas”, science fiction ideas–things with broad scope that seem tenuously plausible but highly disconnected from our day-to-day lives. Ever since 19821 though, we’ve also known that there are results that are just as surprising, jarring, and interesting as some of those [...]