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Preparing for the technology tidal wave
Two million years ago, early humans already knew how to make hand axes out of stone. A million years later they were still making exactly the same kinds of stone axes. Not exactly what you’d call rapid...
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Are we nearly there yet?
The Earth has a diameter of approximately 12,742 kilometres. Do you think that sounds big? It’s pretty big. In the 16th century, the crew of Magellan’s ship completed the first circumnavigation of the...
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The end of the world is nigh (again)
When I was growing up in the 1970s, my friends and I used to play a card game called Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (it was a variation of Snap.) In those Cold War days nearly everybody believed...
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Stepping stones to Transhumanism
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES2014) currently taking place in Las Vegas is packed full of smart glasses, like Google Glass. Wearable tech is poised to transform the way we interact with technology....
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If animals could talk
So I was just reading about a goldfish that can drive a car and I wondered, what if animals could talk? What’s that? You want me to explain about the car-driving fish? Oh well it’s all here. So, just...
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Will robots replace humans?
Consider this. Nearly every large animal on this planet is stronger than us. Almost every predator has claws, or venom, or sharp teeth. But humans have two advantages that have enabled us to survive...
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