January 1, 2004
Imagining the Future
To think about technology is to think about the future. It is, unavoidably, to speculate and to predict, to imagine how...
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January 1, 2004
The Kyoto Protocol: A Post-Mortem
It may not be a household word, but by now the Kyoto Protocol has become a well-known political slogan. President Bush...
January 1, 2004
The Scientist and the Poet
Paul Cantor on the surprising wrinkles in an age-old rivalry
January 1, 2004
The Right Plan
The setting seemed ideal in 1989 when President George H. W. Bush announced his new Space Exploration Initiative. It...
January 1, 2004
The Virtual Astronaut
When the president delivered his Moon-Mars speech, it was nearly the anniversary of the Columbia disaster. Within hours...
January 1, 2004
September 22, 2003
A New Vision for NASA
America’s manned spaceflight program is in disarray. You can see it in the technology. The future of the shuttle...
September 22, 2003
Bioethics in Wartime
In the midst of World War II, C. S. Lewis addressed a class of Oxford students on the question of “Learning in...
September 22, 2003
A Conversation with Nature
The chickadee was oblivious to its surroundings and seemed almost machine-like, if enfeebled, in its single-minded...
September 22, 2003