I’m thinking about what’s after the laptop, after the ipad, after the iphone. The video below is a pico projector — a tiny LCD projector that is already available in South Korea and China and will be become widely available soon. But what next? Perhaps eyeglasses that let you see your computer screen and [...]

And Man Made Life

The title of today’s post is the same as the title of the latest edition of the magazine, The Economist. Their full title is: And Man Made Life: the first artificial organism and its consequences.

A new world emerged recently and many of us missed it. On Thursday, May 20, 2010 the [...]

Into the “Beautiful Unknown”: thoughts on what it means to be human

Sometimes I’m asked, What does “M” stand for?

Have you looked at a photo from the 60’s and the 70’s lately? A couple of months ago, I stopped by Starbucks with my wife, Niza. Starbucks had recently begun an emphasis of getting back to their roots. In conjunction with that theme they had a photo from the early 70’s of their original Starbucks [...]

The past is closed. It cannot be changed. The future, on the other hand, is open. It hasn’t been settled yet. In fact, there is no such thing as “the future.” There are only the futures (plural).

21st century planet Earth is engaged in a global conversation with seven participants plus. Imagine this global conversation like you would seven people seated around a dinner table. There is the Christian, the Secularist, the Jew, the Muslim, the Buddhist, the Primalist/Animist, the Communist.

Premise A: Oil is a limited commodity.

Premise B: The world is dependant on it.

World oil consumption is definitely on the rise. As India, China and others join the gas guzzling contest, what happens when the pumps run dry?

Check out this article in the Washington Post on the use of robots in war. It will make you laugh and startle you at the same time. The emotions that the robot evoked from the Colonel will only magnify as Bots become more human like.

HT (i.e Hat Tip) to Tony Sheng who pointed [...]

” When is local journalism not really local?”

Welcome back. You belong here.

The issue of the “emerging church” is picayune compared to the advent of the “post-human”.
Since I use the term “post-human” in my writing quite a bit, I thought I would offer a brief
piece on what I mean when I use this term.

Besides the obvious influence of too much science fiction, I [...]