Entries tagged with: Evolution

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Evolution

At the Institute for the Future's 2011 Ten Year Forecast event in late March, I presented a long talk on ways in which evolutionary and ecological metaphors could inform our understanding of systemic change. The head of the Ten Year...

Posted on March 29, 2011 1:00 PM

Thinking About Thinking

Here's the opening of a work in progress.... Seventy-four thousand years ago, humanity nearly went extinct. A super-volcano at what's now Sumatra's Lake Toba erupted with a strength more than a thousand times greater than that of Mount St. Helens...

Posted on August 22, 2008 3:40 PM

Paleovirology

Word of the Week: Paleovirology: The study of "fossil" viruses living in our cells as endogenous retroviruses. Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), like the more typical retroviruses such as HIV, rewrite the DNA of the cells they infect; the endogenous retroviruses do...

Posted on December 13, 2007 11:00 PM

What's the Opposite of Triage?

I've been thinking quite a bit lately about how we make long-term decisions. The trite reply of "poorly" is perhaps correct, but only underscores the necessity of coming up with reliable (or, at least, trustable) mechanisms for thinking about the...

Posted on May 4, 2006 4:12 PM

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