Science!
I'll probably fall behind while I'm out of town the next couple weeks, but here's this week's, actually sort of on schedule.

The guy who wrote the Whole Earth Catalog wrote another book that sounds like it challenges environmentalists to get more friendly with technology. I'm not sure how I feel about global interventions into climate and the like, but I can't help but agree that unless you're willing to deal with serious amounts of death (I mean -serious- amounts of death), you're not going to get by on going back to technology-free lifestyles. We received the secret of fire, and now we have to deal with it.

While it's sort of short on the actual math (like I'd understand it, anyway), Wired has a nice piece on creating mathematical models of remarkably complex transitions. If they can figure it out, this would be a huge boon in anticipating all manner of zaniness.

But then I think about those two together, and it's like I'm living in some anime world where they perfectly plan for and engineer everything. I don't know that I'd like living there. I guess it's good for me I'll probably be long dead before it arrives.

In the "Everything I Need to Know about the Future I Learned from Shadowrun" department, researchers are getting a lot closer to overcoming paralysis through electronic implants. Sure, they talk about this for helping people who are injured, but so long as there are capitalists, this technology will eventually be turned into performance enhancement. The fact that they bring up the stem cell piece just shows the wonderful parallels of bioware and cyberware. When do I get to throw fireballs?

And the weirdest article about babies I've ever read. The topic is messy enough I'm not even going to go into it. No - not like that, though that's not a bad guess with babies.