There was a lot of news about cancer in my life in the last few weeks, so I chose that to write about for my Today’s Tomorrows column at Futurismic. I found it a really interesting topic to research – there’s a TON of material, and a lot of it gives conflicting advice. New information …
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My newest Futurismic column looks at longevity. This is feeding a bit off of a question I asked the twitterverse (and the land of Facebook) about whether or not people would want to live to be 150 (assuming no negative consequences to us or our progeny or the earth). Pretty much everybody said yes. I’ve …
My futurismic column for this month deals with animal intelligence –it’s entitled “What are the Animals Becoming?” I just popped over to Nancy Kress’s blog to see how she’s doing, and it turns out she just blogged on the same topic (or at least mentioned the prevalence of stories about genetically altered animals in her …
This seems to be the moment for robot research for me. At least that’s the topic I picked for this month’s version of my column over at Futurismic, Today’s Tomorrows. Since I don’t like to let my column over there get to be longer than about 1,000 words, I couldn’t include everything. So for the …
First, Seattle Geekly does a great podcast. As I’m sure you can guess, they talk about all things Seattle that would interest the slightly more – well, geekly (gaming, conventions, science fiction and fantasy, anime, steampunk, other local events). I listen in when I get time. Even better, I visited them last week and we …
In science fiction, we’ve long assumed that distance would disappear. We do it with FTL travel so we can take our characters between planets the way we now travel between cities, we do it with instant communication devices, and we use teleportation. We wave our science fictional hands at the challenges of communicating over great …
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First, my newest column is up at Futurismic. This month I took a look at nanotechnology. These columns are intended to be a broad brush look at current events in major fields of science, and a short commentary on a few ways those fields have been discussed in science fiction (this time I mention Greg …
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be doing a new column at Futurismic. The introduction to the column can be found here. I’m really pleased to be associated with the site – it’s one of the better science and science fiction sites out there right now.  Futurismic comes in three pieces: blog, columns, and stories. …
