FastForward Radio -- Three Words
Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon have three words for you about the future:
Possibilities are open to us as individuals, as a nation, and as a civilization that are unprecedented in all of human history. The only thing standing between each of us and an extraordinary future is the choices we make today and tomorrow.
There's a wonderful future waiting for you out there. Whatever you do -- don't miss it.
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Possibilities are open to us as individuals, as a nation, and as a civilization that are unprecedented in all of human history. The only thing standing between each of us and an extraordinary future is the choices we make today and tomorrow.
There's a wonderful future waiting for you out there. Whatever you do -- don't miss it.
Our Topics:
- Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
- Stephen's account of his trip to Washington D.C. to protest the health care bill. Warning, politics ahead.
- The Forbes article that included a short segment on natural gas.
- The post at Brian Wang's Next Big Future blog concerning India's new fast breeder reactor.
- Click here to read a written version of Phil's tinker story. Scroll down to the comments.
- Livly and Granulocyte Therapies to Kill Cancer
- A fresh way to take the salt out of seawater
H/T to PJ Manney.
- Tissue Engineering a Functioning Penis
- Setting Sail Into Space, Propelled by Sunshine
- NASA hands over $900K for Laser propulsion system. Video of the climb is at the link.
LaserMotive's climber crawled up 1km of rope held in place by helicopter, achieving an average speed of four metres per second and powered by a laser focused onto solar panels on the back of the climber.
- Dean Kamen's "Luke Arm" Prosthesis Readies for Clinical Trials
- Max Moore's DYNAMIC OPTIMISM: An Extropian Cognitive-Emotional Virtue
- Glenn Reynolds' Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths
- Our music this week was "Open Road" by Nathan Lee. As usual, you can find our music (and hear it in stereo) by clicking over to musicalley.com.
Comments
hello hello. thanks for another good show!
where can i find more info about sending molecules back through time to sabotage the LHC?
Posted by: farbaute | November 12, 2009 01:20 AM
Thanks for posting Max More's thoughts on dynamic optimism. I have 'em bookmarked.
http://www.maxmore.com/optimism.htm
Posted by: Sally Morem | November 12, 2009 02:39 PM
Hello
This is a good post and I also like Max Moore's Dynamic Optimism.Thank you very much for giving such wonderful post to us.You have done a good job.Keep up the good work.
Posted by: rooibos | November 16, 2009 12:33 AM