On the emerging copper shortfall, mainstream media notices
Denying there are limits to resources doesn’t negate this fact. It only makes it harder when limits appear because we are unprepared.
Denying there are limits to resources doesn’t negate this fact. It only makes it harder when limits appear because we are unprepared.
Artificial intelligence is like artificial sweeteners, not as compelling as the real thing and potentially hazardous to our health.
Dublin, Ireland. We are seeing the first good days here, leading up to the golden days of mid-summer, and I’ve been talking to elderly friends here in the Irish countryside about what they used to do when the sun shone. The answer, of course, was that they made hay. When farmers heard the cry of … Read more
The acceleration of climate change is in the news more and more.
The smallest living things in the world may be the most important to us humans.
The first stage of scarcity is not running out, but having less and less available. Platinum may end up being a good example in the coming year.
It is fashionable to be pessimistic about new and emerging technologies. Less fashionable is dealing with the existing technologies that are already killing us and the biosphere.
The late Eric Sevareid, a CBS reporter and commentator, coined what is now known as Sevareid’s law: The chief cause of problems is solutions.
You should be very, very cautious about any device that uses the word “smart” in its name.
Radioactivity-resistant soldiers? Life tries to imitate art.
Energy-thrifty Europeans cut energy use dramatically in the wake of the loss of Russian natural gas imports. Will they go further?
Satellite mega-constellations are coming to a sky near you and the results could over time be catastrophic for the ozone layer unless something is done.