Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind?