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Brief Reflections on “A Brief History of the Future”

The ideas I began to work with in A Brief History of the Future have in some ways sharpened for me since I wrote it in 2009; in other ways, they have become more obfuscated and confusing. My intention in … Continue reading

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A Brief History of the Future: Reflections on the Death of Space Travel

NASA will launch a mission in 2009 called Kepler to monitor nearly 200,000 stars for the shadows of planets the size of Earth. Let’s say we find dozens or hundreds of Earths, or even thousands, as some astronomers predict. What … Continue reading

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