http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Because on a cosmic scale, nearly everything is just a blip. en-us bcross@umn.edu 2008-03-23T13:48:20-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/118963.html This is great -- Pup Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe -- is a side-scrolling cartoon, illustratiing a view of the 'verse kind of like the Powers of Ten, but teh funny. Well, it's funny in a way that... 118963@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Cosmos 2008-03-23T13:48:20-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/118700.html Remember the lyric of that great Talking Heads song Once in a Lifetime, which asks, "How did I get here?" That's a great question for this blog; it's been asked down the centuries, of course. Now modern astronomers have begun... 118700@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Cosmos 2008-03-19T16:47:20-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/118703.html So much time has passed since last I wrote here. I intend to restart Taking the Long View, with new content, some new design, and new perspective on what this blog can do. I'm also going to start a couple... 118703@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Weblog 2008-03-19T15:55:30-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/053601.html Over a year? I have neglected the blog for over a year? And now so much has happened in the last few weeks, that I feel compelled to write again. Life has been "interesting" I suppose. In August, just as... 53601@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Life 2006-09-21T13:29:05-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/022651.html I've just been very busy. Thanks for the comments, those of you who have been sending them. If you have other sites you think would be useful here, please send me them via comments. I hope to have more time... 22651@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Weblog 2005-06-02T15:00:09-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/017698.html More Than Human by Ramez Naam Naam's recently published book More Than Human is a chronicle and prediction of current research and production of biotech and nantech investigations and treatments. His thesis is that not only are these inevitable... 17698@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Transhumanism 2005-03-14T10:50:03-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/017324.html On Thursday, March 3rd, I had the chance to hear a lecture by John Dobson, founder of the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers Association, and all around cantankerous cosmologist, sponsored by the Minnesota Astronomical Society. His lecture was quite a trip,... 17324@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Cosmos 2005-03-07T14:07:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/017099.html Hey! I'm entering this via the Clie and NetFront -- and now to see if it works.... 17099@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Weblog 2005-03-03T11:00:54-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/017049.html KurzweilAI.net "...features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas.... Although... 17049@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Singularity 2005-03-02T14:17:03-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/017045.html Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution by Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson "Nanotechnology. The science is good, the engineering is feasible, the paths of approach are many, the consequences are revolutionary-times-revolutionary, and the schedule is: in our lifetimes. But what?... 17045@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Nanotechnology 2005-03-02T13:58:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/016979.html The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution by John Brockman "The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in... 16979@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Evolution 2005-03-01T14:28:43-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/016976.html The Book of Sand: A Hypertext/Puzzle by Jorge Luis Borges "This web site contains, in eight randomly numbered pages, the text of Jorge Luis Borges' story The Book of Sand (as translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni), with pictures and... 16976@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Myth 2005-03-01T14:09:37-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/016495.html Extropy Institute (ExI) "...has grown from a groundbreaking futurist organization to a worldwide incubator for solutions. Having spent the last 15 years building the grid for transhumanity, ExI is now moving forward in designing the means for resolving technological and... 16495@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Extropy 2005-02-22T21:41:36-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/016494.html Cosmic Evolution: From Big Bang to Humankind by Eric J. Chaisson, Wright Center for Science Education at Tufts University. "The arrow of time, from origin of the Universe to the present and beyond, spans several major epochs throughout all of... 16494@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Cosmos 2005-02-22T21:30:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/016489.html Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival "News that shatters the ice of our unconscious!" "The nature of reality is this: It is hidden, and it is hidden, and it is hidden." --Rumi, 13th-century Sufi mystic Mind-stretching connections and many spurious misdirections, but... 16489@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cross003/longview/ Metaphysics 2005-02-22T21:07:21-06:00