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A tale of two meetings
In the past, I’ve enjoyed several meetings of the London Skeptics in the Pub (“SitP”). More than 100 people cram into the basement meeting space of Penderel’s Oak in Holborn, and listen to a speaker...
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Sustainable energy without the hot air
Over the last ten days, I’ve been reading “Sustainable energy – without the hot air“. It’s no surprise that the reviews for it on Amazon.com are, at time of writing, 95% 5-star, and only 5% 4-star. In...
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ELF09: energy, sustainability, and more
On Tuesday I attended the ninth Business Week “European Leadership Forum”, also known by its Twitter hash tag #elf09. Business Week are to be congratulated for bringing together a fascinating group of...
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The single biggest problem
Petra Söderling, my good friend and former colleague on the Symbian Foundation launch team, raises some important questions in a blogpost yesterday, Transhumans H+. Petra remarked on the fact that I...
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Predictions for the decade ahead
Before highlighting some likely key trends for the decade ahead – the 2010′s – let’s pause a moment to review some of the most important developments of the last ten years. Technologically, the 00′s...
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Achieving a 130-fold improvement in 40 years
One reason I like London so much is the quality of debate and discussion that takes place, at least three times most weeks, at the RSA. The full name of this organisation is “the Royal Society for the...
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Transcending the threat of the long emergency
The not-so-distant future (2030-2045) may turn out very different from how we commonly imagine. It may turn out very different from what we desire. At that time, those of us who remain alive and who...
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When faith gets in the way of progress
Is it good that we grow old, weak, disease-prone, and eventually succumb, dead, to the ravages of aging? The rise and fall of our health and vigour is depicted in this sketch from leading...
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Risk blindness and the forthcoming energy crash
‘Logical’ is the last thing human thinking, individual and collective, is. Too compelling an argument can even drive people with a particularly well-insulated belief system deeper into denial. The...
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