What is the state of mind uploading technology? Could it help preserve our memories? Is this idea anywhere near fruition? Let’s review what’s happening.
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The things we learn from movies are not always great, not always perfect, and not always true. Even so, there is enough valuable information that it is worth examining some of the lessons we can learn by watching movies.
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WRAL TechWire columnist Marshall Brain presents a proposal under which North Carolina State could become a ‘perfectly green’ campus.
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Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” – is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. He’s also author of “The Doomsday Book: The Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Threats.” Brain has written several posts recently about the threat of climate change. His exclusive columns written for TechWire...
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Climate change is just the start. Things are becoming objectively awful for a broad swath of Americans. And they are likely to get worse. Young people can see this, and it is becoming a source of dread. The members of Gen Z see this. Millennials are quite familiar, having lived through multiple crises and no end in sight. Even Boomers are becoming conscious of this trend in growing numbers.
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Where are we heading? Right now, these mass shootings are typically characterized as “lone wolf” kinds of events. But could that change into a bigger threat? Just look at the headlines in your daily news feed.
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There is one end-of-the-world Doomsday threat you may not have heard of. It is far more subtle. It is also slower acting, meaning it would unfold over the course of years. But it has the potential to be just as catastrophic. This threat is called Melting Permafrost. Let’s take a look.
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The purpose of this article is to explore a thought experiment about the future of Gaza. Yes, the situation looks grim today. Yes, the situation might get worse in the short term. But in 6 months or 12 months, barring some sort of nuclear exchange or a World War 3 situation in the Middle East, things will have calmed down. At that point, we are going to be back where we were in September. So what can be done? Here are some thoughts.
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We will get to witness the collapse of civilization. The focus of this article is, “How runaway climate change will cause the collapse of civilization.” In a runaway situation, things will change quite quickly – fast enough to predict when the end will come.
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