Seeking Delphi – The Millennium Conjectures™: Recent Episodes
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“Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”- Peter Diamandis Peter Diamandis might be right, but asteroid mining is probably not imminent–at least not in the way that lunar mining is. With both the NASA and the Chinese National Space Agency having designs on establishing permanent lunar […]
This post originally appeared on Seeking Delphi.™ “Future shock is a sickness that comes from too much change in too short a time.”–Alvin Toffler The newly released volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and looking ahead to the next 50 […]
“For me, the key to longevity – and immortality, in a sense – has to do with transformation.”–Marilyn Manson Is transformation the key to immortality? A better question is: will radical life extension–the end of aging–in itself be transformative? I believe the answer to that second question is a resounding yes. In this special Seeking […]
This post is re-blogged from Seeking Delph™ “As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on. For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley As one of America’s leading technologists, when whurley speaks, people listen. Lots of them. We first heard from him on Seeking […]
This post is re-blogged from Seeking Delph™ “Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”– Arthur C. Clarke “I’m leaving my body to science fiction.”–Steven Wright Science fiction pervades our culture. Movies, television, books, even stage productions. It’s rich history, and its significance in shaping our views of the future–or for that matter, […]
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.” – Dag Hammarskjold While many futures are generalists, there is a need for foresight professionals centered on specific fields, as well. Perhaps no area is more in need of innovative outlooks for the future than healthcare. With rising […]
This post reblogged from Seeking Delphi™ “I did not come to NASA to make history.”–Sally Ride “Going to Mars would make NASA great again.”–John Grunsfeld A new space race is upon us. But unlike the two-way competion days of the 1960’s and early 1970’s, it is now a multi-player competition to dominate and exploit […]
“They say the Universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.”–Steven Wright This post is reblogged from my Seeking Delphi™ podcast. Autonomous vehicles? Flying cars? The concepts are exciting, but the truth is: most of us will still be driving manually on the ground for many years to come. And that means dealing with […]
This post is reblogged from the Seeking Delph™ blog. “The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.”–Elon Musk “We wanted flying cars; what we got is 140 characters.”–Peter Thiel Well, guess what? We […]
Reblogged from Seeking Delphi™ . “The Promise of Autonomous Vehicles is Great.”–Dan Lipinski “My opinion is that it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous vehicles.”–Elon Musk There’s no shortage of opinions on the viability of self-driving cars. Be you a bull or a bear, though, there is no denying that there […]