Neal Stephenson signs on as Magic Leap’s Chief Futurist
Neal Stephenson has signed on as Magic Leap’s Chief Futurist. He describes why in a post on their blog. In this excerpt he describes the technology in a way that sounds like there is no device worn by...
View ArticleThe Huygens DISR: An Astonishing & Musical Data Visualization
From the title of the video you would never know this is one of the most visually captivating and melodious presentations of space probe data you may ever see. The video (from Erich Karkoschka,...
View ArticleInstallations of Meaning: Sculptural Discourses in Site/Scale Suspensions
This post is the seed of a paper I am writing about a way to think with meaning across sites and scales. My thinking here is influenced by encounters of many kinds with great thinkers such as Avital...
View ArticlePath to Mars: Building an Island of the Future
What does Newfoundland have in common with the challenges of building a human settlement on Mars? They are both isolated places with harsh landscapes facing challenges in the areas of energy,...
View ArticleExploring Extraterrestrial Oceans Here on Earth
NASA has announced that observations from the Hubble telescope suggest there is a vast underground ocean on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, which is also the largest moon in our solar system: “Scientists...
View ArticleMagnetospheric Reflections
After they were launched into space tonight, four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft are in Earth’s orbit preparing to study how the protective magnetic fields around the Earth sometimes...
View ArticleMonuments to Wonder
Aimed toward the sky – these radio telescopes look up into space. Listening, collecting, as monuments to wonder. Where are they aimed, what are they listening to, looking at, receiving? Considered as a...
View ArticleIn WIRED: “Yuri Milner and the Fellowship of Silicon Valley Science Influencers”
I am quoted in this article on the funding behind the Breakthrough Initiatives and other Silicon Valley funded science. The author of the article, Sarah Scoles, has also written a book (which is on my...
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