by Will Mayshall | 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 Will Mayshall | 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 Will Mayshall | 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 Will Mayshall | 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 Will Mayshall | 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...
by Will Mayshall | Jun 13, 2025 | Science and Emerging Technology
Earth is constantly on the move in multiple ways. Here are the four primary motions: Rotation – Earth spins on its axis once every 24 hours, giving us day and night. Revolution – Earth orbits the Sun once a year, responsible for our seasons. Galactic Motion – Our...
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