In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.