Activists push scary headlines about the harm they predict a technology will cause, but ignore the good things we stand to lose without it.
Category: futurism
Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz
A history of Leibniz. Another Historic figure that did more then you or I ever will.
Google just bought 200 megawatts of fusion energy that doesn’t even exist yet
Tech giant Google is investing money into a futuristic nuclear fusion plant that hasn’t been built yet but someday will replicate the energy of the stars. It’s a sign of how hungry big tech companies are for a virtually unlimited source of clean power that is still years away.
Google and Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced a deal Monday in which the tech company bought 200 megawatts of power from Commonwealth’s first commercial fusion plant, the same amount of energy that could power roughly 200,000 average American homes.
Commonwealth aims to build the plant in Virginia by the early 2030s. When it starts generating usable fusion energy is still TBD, though the company believes they can do it in the same timeframe.
EARTh pARTy Conference
Conference at Forbes Island (San Francisco Bay) in July 2025 featuring Brewster Kahle Tim Anderson Heidi Petty:
The eARTh pARTy Conference brings together visionaries in technology, art, and culture on a unique floating island to reimagine our collective future. Over three immersive days, we’ll explore how technology can empower rather than control humanity’s creative potential.
Our world stands at a crossroads. This gathering champions a future where creators maintain ownership of their work, receive fair compensation, and preserve their digital autonomy. Together, we’ll explore what a future looks like with a distributed creative network that advocates for ethical platforms and transparent systems.
The pieces for our future already exist. We simply need the courage to reassemble them into a world where creative expression flourishes, and the impact you make becomes your most valuable asset.
Join us in launching a movement that ensures technology serves human creativity rather than exploiting it.
Building the future of creative economies: decentralized, regenerative, thriving.
Analysis provides day-by-day insight into prehistoric plankton’s capacity for change
Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of analyzing fossils, allowing them to see how creatures from millions of years ago were shaped by their environment on a day-to-day basis for the first time.
The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could improve our understanding of how character traits driven by environmental changes shaped evolutionary history and life on Earth.
It could help scientists to understand how much of a species’ evolutionary journey is down to “nature vs. nurture.”