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Choosing our own future: will we greet new technologies with more regulation or more liberty?
Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World, by David Friedman, New York: Cambridge University Press, 351 pages, $30 Future...
Reason, 05/01/09 by Gregory Benford · More from publication -
Arthur C. Clarke : visionary science-fiction author
LUCKY PROPHETS BECOME vindicated sages in their own lifetimes. Arthur C. Clarke, who died on March 19, 2008, was the luckiest of men, becoming the...
Skeptic, 06/22/08 by Gregory Benford · More from publication -
Popular and pilloried
IN THE EARLY 1990S THE NATIONAL ACADEMY of Sciences held its annual election to membership. Richard Feynman had already become so exasperated that...
Skeptic, 03/22/06 by Gregory Benford · More from publication -
A frozen future? Cryonics as a gamble
FOR MANY, THE WEIRDEST NEWS of 2002 was the story that American baseball legend Ted Williams had been frozen. Williams' son had turned his fathers...
Skeptic, 06/22/04 by Gregory Benford · More from publication -
Leaping the Abyss: Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe - Interview
STEPHEN HAWKING SEEMED slightly worse, as always. It is a miracle that he has clung to life for over 20 years with Lou Gehrig's disease. Each time...
Reason, 04/01/02 by Gregory Benford · More from publication -
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of. - book reviews
by Thomas Disch, New York: The Free Press, 320 pages, $25.00 by Thomas Disch, New York: The Free Press, 320 pages, $25.00 This sadly sardonic...
Reason, 08/01/98 by Gregory Benford · More from publication -
Climate controls - global warming - Cover Story
Global warming can be addressed more effectively through a technical approach. Instead of fueling moral outrage, governments should capitalize on...
Reason, 11/01/97 by Gregory Benford · More from publication -
Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be. - book reviews
Does the convergence of biological and computer technology promise a radically different age? Yes, says futurist Walter Truett Anderson - but the...
Reason, 11/01/96 by Gregory Benford · More from publication -
Alt.fans - comparison of the Internet with science fiction fandom
The future of the Internet may follow the history of fandom, which arose during the Depression era because many people wanted to communicate with...
Reason, 01/01/96 by Gregory Benford · More from publication -
Biology: understanding culture, technology, and politics in 'Biological Century.'
Imagination at the end of 18th-century was fired up by the technological and ethical implications of two emerging sciences: chemistry and physics....
Reason, 11/01/95 by Gregory Benford · More from publication
