Archive for December, 2008

Metamodern – The Trajectory Of Technology

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

“Eric Drexler is categorically the most knowledgeable and well-rounded scientist I have ever met. Period.”

- From an interview with Sander Olsen for nanotech.biz, November 2005.

Friend, mentor, and co-author K. Eric Drexler has begun a new blog and I am thrilled to have at the click of a mouse the thoughts of a founding father of my field who remains a strong voice for its progress by seeing beyond the boundaries that define scientific disciplines.

metamodern.com

If all scientists had his mastery of insight and interdisciplinary mindset, I dare say we might be done by now.

And I subscribed to the feed, too.

www.somewhereville.com/?p=93
www.nanotech.biz
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Eric_Drexler
e-drexler.com
metamodern.com
feeds.feedburner.com/Metamodern

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Crescent Moon + Jupiter/Venus Planetary Conjunction = ):

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Yes, 4.5 billions years later, we have emoticons in the sky. Likely a more benign association than that of several hundred generations of the more “primitive” astronomical interpretations (although we continue to demonstrate we’re not doing to well as we race through the 21st Century).

The images show the Moon, Venus (bottom star), and Jupiter (upper star), with the Syracuse weather above my apartment just barely cooperating. I dare not venture a guess as to how poorly these would have come out without a tripod handy. Click on an image for a larger view.