Filed under: disasters, Hot Earth Dreams, livable future, Uncategorized | Tags: Covid-19, disasters, science
There’s not too much I can say about Covid-19, but there are some things that need to be said.
First, stay safe. This is going to go on for months, and it’s unlikely we’re going to go back to things they were the way before even after there are effective vaccines, treatment, and herd immunity. Continue reading
Filed under: climate change, futurism, nonviolence, Speculation, sustainability, The Internet | Tags: disasters, Internet
I’ve been a bit busy with environmental stuff, including the climate strike on 9/20. In honor of that, of the MCAS Miramar Air show that’s rattling my windows this weekend, and this little article from June about how the US military is one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters on the planet, I figured I’d add in one of my normally bleak predictions about the future.
Filed under: climate change, disasters, futurism, Speculation | Tags: disasters, future
Since I’m avoiding reading two EIRs right now (I commented on a third last week), I figure I might as well play with some ideas that floated up since the previous post, about our modern conceptions of magic being the residue of previous methods for storing and propagating information in an oral culture. Right now, my bedtime reading is Walter J Ong’s 1982 opus Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. I wanted to highlight a point that Ong makes in great detail, echoed by others (like Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein): people process data differently depending on whether they know how to read and how to write or not. Continue reading
Filed under: climate change, disasters | Tags: climate change, disasters, Reveal
Just a brief note. This afternoon, I was listening to the radio, and the show Reveal had a program called “Might Ike: A monster storm in the making.” It’s investigative reporting worth listening to, if you want to get away from California disasters a bit.
Putting the life back in science fiction 