Is thinking of your home as a spaceship a useful maybe even practical metaphor?
As we execute carefully planned Extra Vehicular Activities (EVAs: the weekly grocery shopping in masks and gloves), our account of inputs and outputs and the circular nature of flows of our homes may become clear.
And realizing how that works in our homes, may lead us to a more immediate perception that the same applies to Earth in its entirety.Martian colonies won’t have the dumb luxury of wasting resources.
Only 100% sustainability will let them last. Their valuable export is going to be the technologies and practices to make it happen on Earth as well.
Just like organisms preserve their identity and attack the other, organizations have an immune system as well. Especially successful ones, which can devote even...
The acceleration of technological change exposes reach of us to challenges that we have to be able to face. The tools and skills that...
What are the implications of advanced Artificial Intelligence on our understanding of consciousness and self-awareness? We have to strive for self-discovery and introspection, embracing...
