Reading List

Happy new years everyone! I’m kicking off the new year by reading a few chapters and enjoying the quiet day. “Songs of a Distant Earth.” This is called one of Clarke’s best books. We’ll see. So far it’s good, and it definitely has a more humanistic quality to it. The characters have a bit more … Continue reading →

Space-Age Religions

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke It’s a curious situation– mars has abundant evidence that life did at one point exist, so what happens when we find it? Whether it is a living microbe or fossilized remains, what would this do for religion, culture, civilization? In this solar system, … Continue reading →

The Future of Our Minds; Google Brains and other speculations

Having delved recently into science fiction, these past few days I have been exploring the possibilities of our own near future. What new things could we conceive of happening to us? One of the many ideas that have been going through my mind is the future of the computer. A quantum computer does not yet … Continue reading →