Humanity evolved in a world of scarcity and we live in such a world now.  We know that a lot of stuff is rare and therefore valuable.  We kn...

  Is it dangerous that the world is run by irrational, emotional humans?    Should we turn our culture into a Vulcan culture?    Should we t...

  What are your predictions, hopes, and fears, for 2023 and beyond? Will we see asteroid mining, a moon base, people on Mars?    Worldwide d...

  Come and join us at GeekSpeak on Saturday at noon SLT.    Let’s ask if the internet is good or bad for our world and for democracy. We now...

  What will the future Mars settlers need to take with them?  Will they have to take all the oxygen, water and food they need for 2 years?  ...

  Last week our species reached 8 billion people.  Let’s celebrate humanity today, we clearly won the genetic lottery.  8 billion and all of...

  What will your life be like in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years?  Will you own a car or use a robotaxi?  Will you live in a car because it is c...

  Twitter was bought to change society and to enable free speech for everyone, not to make money.  It will now be re-shaped into something t...

  NASA announced last week that they are creating an official team to investigate UFOs (aka UAPs).  What will they find?  And how much will ...

  Maybe one day we will all realize that everything would be better if we all just worked together.  Perhaps unity will be forced on us by c...

  For the last decade or so we have been told to save energy.  What we need is some device that will store energy so that none of it is lost...

  Come to GeekSpeak on Saturday at noon SLT and let’s ask what the world would look like if certain inventions were never made, or certain e...

There are so many things that threaten Earth or life on Earth or human life on Earth.    What should be done about them all?    And what sho...

  One of the newest tricks we humans can do is to change the DNA of plants, bacteria and animals.  Reprogrammed bacteria can do useful thing...

  Throughout the ages many crackpot ideas have actually come true.  Human flight, the moon  landing, the idea that the moon causes tides, th...

  Science seems to require so much money and so many people nowadays.  But are there still fields where ordinary people, amateurs, can disco...

This week NASA showed us the first images from the JWST.  There will be plenty more to come.  What will we discover?  What answers will the ...

  Are we facing nuclear war, the end of democracy, pandemics, a burning planet, extinction?  Will we go down the drain and be forgotten?  Or...

  What makes people creative?  And what does creativity do for society?  Could we manage without it?  Can AI be creative? Do you think of yo...

  We have all heard about the problems of oil: climate change, pollution, wars.  So perhaps we should all stop using it?  Or do you think th...