A Moral Galaxy: War and Suffering in “Star Wars: The Old Republic”
A new Star Wars film premieres this week, accompanied by the kind of social ferment…
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Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform
Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…
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“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate
Presidential candidates currently fall into two camps. In the first, you have about 20 Republican…
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Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling
What we search for may be instructive, but what we turn up may be just as important.
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The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented a device that could represent accurately the human voice….
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The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven
Talking transhumanism with R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell.
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Church Synod Recap: Micromanaging the Morals of Others
Changes in tone are no substitute for changes in substance.
Read MoreThe Google Question of Evil
The slogan “Don’t be evil” prompts questions Google’s chairman seems ill-equipped to answer.
Read MoreBuddha as Scientist, Entrepreneur & Self-Improvement Guru
4 (not especially noble) truths about “Buddhist Geeks.”
Read MoreWhen the Steve Jobs/Apple/Religion Analogy Goes Too Far
Sometimes an apple is just an apple.
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