Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# space
Tau Zero Foundation's founder's interpretation of the Earth's energy generation projections profoundly misunderstands its own point.
# space
Dougal Dixon has seen the future of the human species and it's not a fun or good one...
# tech
IEEE is not impressed with Ray Kurzweil's cold readings about the future of computing and technology.
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Michael Anissimov has had it with transhumanists ready to hurry up and wait for technology to solve every problem humanity faces by merely existing.
# sex
Surprisingly, one of the topics Singularitarians don't bring up about the utopian virtual worlds to which we'll upload our minds is just how much sex there would be.
# tech
Jaron Lanier went from VR pioneer to Luddite afraid of transhumanists' supposed agenda of mass dehumanization.
# tech
While utopians dream of tomorrow's world, they often forget that we can't take anything for granted when it comes to humanity's future.
# tech
A superintelligent computer would be the last invention humanity could ever want. Figuratively and literally.
# tech
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But what futurist ideas seem to be on the right track and more likely to happen than not?
# tech
If you froze yourself in a cryogenic chamber, would anyone actually want to unfreeze you in the future?