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New Geoengineering Study, Part II

The article The radiative forcing potential of different climate geoengineering options is now out and available for download and discussion. As expected, it offers one of the first useful comparisons of different geoengineering techniques. (It should be noted that...

Posted by Jamais Cascio on January 28, 2009 12:08 PM

3D Print-to-Order

Whenever I talk about the rise of low-cost 3D fabrication, one inevitable question (after "how expensive is a printer?") is "does anyone do print-on-demand fabbing?" Real soon now, the answer will be yes. (Update: As Sven notes in the...

Posted by Jamais Cascio on July 22, 2008 3:38 PM

The Big Picture: Collapse, Transcendence, or Muddling Through

I'll start this essay by leading with my conclusion: do we make it through this century? Yeah, but not all of us, and it's neither as spectacular nor as horrific as many people imagine. Techno-utopianism is heady and seductive. Looking...

Posted by Jamais Cascio on July 14, 2008 2:33 PM