Yearly Archives: 2013

Society and Politics in 2100 – Part 2: Universal Connectivity Equals Direct Democracy

Continuing to look at what our political processes and institutions will look like in the year 2100, I raise the issue of how the...

Environment Update: One More Sequestration Project Bites the Dust in Alberta

While Canada and several of its provinces send heavyweights down to the U.S. to influence the decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, back home...

Space Update: These Days Everyone Seems to Want to Go to the Moon and Mars

It seems that a whole bunch of entrepreneurs and independently wealthy individuals have the Moon and Mars in mind as places to go. One...

The Machine Question – Our Perspective on Sentience, the Singularity and Humanity

I recently finished reading David J. Gunkel's book of the same name in which the author challenges the reader to understand the philosophical questions...

Society and Politics in 2100 – Part 1: Speculations on a Very Different World

Humans are hard-wired social creatures. We have always organized ourselves starting with nuclear families and extending to formal and informal groupings such as tribes,...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for February 22, 2013

What caught my eye in the headlines this week:   Mussel Adhesive to Transform Fetal Surgery; Despite Winter Storms U.S. Midwest Drought Continues; Honda Acura Dealers Begin Selling...

Gizmos & Gadgets: 3Doodler the 3-D Printing Pen

3D printing is about to get even cheaper. Introducing the 3Doodler pen. For $75 you can draw anything in 3D.  3Doodler doesn't use ink....

Energy Update: Pumped Storage to Compliment Variable Renewable Energy

Some time ago I wrote about an abandoned open pit mine at Marmora, Ontario, northeast of where I live in Toronto. I have visited...

Agriculture Update: Notes from the GMO Battlefront

The GMO (genetically modified organism) FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) needs to be addressed because we humans are at a cross roads in selectively improving...

Energy Update: Keystone is a Drop in the CO2 Bucket List

  This morning it was hard not to notice the coverage on Keystone in light of the Sunday protest by environmentalists on the Mall and...

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