One of the ideas that keeps coming back to me is whether we're getting closer to
Hari Seldon's psychohistory.
Today's AI can already analyze enormous amounts of data, identify patterns, and
even make predictions about e...
One thing I've always wondered about Riverworld is who didn't make it.
Farmer resurrected billions of people from every era, and we got an amazing mix
of explorers, kings, soldiers, writers, philosophers, and villains....
SpaceX just completed a full-duration static fire of all six Raptor engines on
Ship 40, another big milestone on the road to Starship Flight 13. Every
successful test gets us a little closer to a fully reusable launch sy...
One of the biggest "wait... what?" moments for me in the *Foundation* series was
when the Mule showed up.
Up until then, it felt like Hari Seldon had everything figured out. Every crisis
happened pretty much the way he...
One of my favorite parts of the *Riverworld* books was Samuel Clemens trying to
build the **Not For Hire**. The guy wakes up in a world where nobody has
factories, hardly any metal exists, and everybody else is just tryi...