The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly