writer – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:19:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Unexpected Futurist: Ben Franklin envisions 2776 — and Cryonics https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/unexpected-futurist-ben-franklin-envisions-2776-and-cryonics Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:09:43 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=72391

In Unexpected Futurist, we profile the lesser known futurist side of influential individuals. This episode’s unexpected time-traveler: Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin was an inventor, observer, electricity pioneer, and serial experimenter, so it’s not entirely surprising he looked to the future. But it turns out he was looking to the far, far future. In 1780 he wrote a letter to a friend in which he lamented that he was born during the dawn of science.

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]]> Futurist Gray Scott: We are Part of a Technological Cosmos https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/futurist-gray-scott-we-are-part-of-a-technological-cosmos Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:06:12 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=72116

How will our relationship to technology evolve in the future? Will we regard it as something apart from ourselves, part of ourselves, or as a new area of evolution? In this new video from the Galactic Public Archives, Futurist Gray Scott explains that we are a part of a technological cosmos. Do you agree with Scott that technology is built into the universe, waiting to be discovered?

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