by Ai Friendly | Nov 30, 2025 | Science and Emerging Technology
Black holes were foreseen in 1783, John Michell postulated that an invisible star could be massive enough to trap light, so called Dark Stars. The idea, expressed only in a Royal Society letter, remained largely unconsidered for a decade. In 1798, Henry Cavendish,...
by Ai Friendly | Nov 4, 2025 | Science and Emerging Technology
Cosmologists often speak of The Great Silence. If the prospects for extraterrestrial life are so high in the vastness of the Universe, why aren’t we hearing anything from any of our neighbors? At the risk of sounding an unwarranted note of paranoia, it is possible our...
by Ai Friendly | Oct 31, 2025 | History as it applies to the Future, Science and Emerging Technology
In olden days, the oceans were the vast unknowns. But gradually, we have come to realize that all the oceans are really just one large Sea with which we are becoming more and more familiar. So, in our never-ending quest to know the unknown, we have also turned our...
by Ai Friendly | Oct 1, 2025 | Science and Emerging Technology, Writing for Writers
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln established the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1863? In 2008, the NAS founded the Science and Entertainment Exchange. The NAS’s involvement helps ensure fiction that educates, inspires, and predicts the future of our...
by Ai Friendly | Aug 9, 2025 | Science and Emerging Technology
In the 1990’s the economist and futurist Robin Hanson coined the phrase The Great Filter as a speculative answer to the Fermi Paradox, the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations existing in our vast universe and the...
by Ai Friendly | Jul 8, 2025 | Education, Science and Emerging Technology
The debate about the future of Digitized Intelligence often incorrectly centers on the question of Sentience. For the record, Sentience is defined in terms of feelings, perceptions, and emotions, attributes that even the lowliest of animals demonstrably have and that...
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