FuturescapeinThe FuturescapeThe Ecological Challenge of Artificial SuperintelligenceDoes the hypothetical realization of artificial superintelligence pose unique challenges to systems ecology and environmental…Dec 20, 2019Dec 20, 2019
FuturescapeinThe FuturescapeFull Automation and Feminism in Futures StudiesWhat does feminist critique have to offer futures studies, and a vision of Utopia enabled by full automation?Dec 19, 2019Dec 19, 2019
FuturescapeinThe FuturescapeProblems of Assessing the Risk of Contact by Extraterrestrial IntelligenceThe Fermi paradox refers to the apparent contradiction between the absence of evidence for extraterrestrial life and intelligence, and the…Dec 9, 2019Dec 9, 2019
FuturescapeinThe FuturescapeGalactic Hegemony and the Zoo HypothesisA common trope among science fiction works that address the question of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is the Zoo…Dec 2, 2019Dec 2, 2019
FuturescapeinThe FuturescapeA Sustainability Solution to the Fermi ParadoxIn 1950, at a lunch outside Los Alamos with colleagues Emil Konopinsky, Edward Teller, and Herbert York, nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi…Dec 2, 2019Dec 2, 2019
FuturescapeinThe Futurescape“Classifying Global Catastrophic Risks”Global catastrophic risks, otherwise known as existential risks, are those associated with some event which either causes human extinction…Dec 2, 2019Dec 2, 2019
FuturescapeinThe FuturescapeGames and Futures Studies MethodologyIt is a critique of futures studies that its methods are borrowed and adapted from exterior social sciences, including economics…Nov 25, 2019Nov 25, 2019
FuturescapeinThe Futurescape“Economic Inequality and Human Enhancement Technology”An optimistic alternative possible future may be one in which human enhancement diminishes negative traits in humans like hatred and…Nov 18, 2019Nov 18, 2019
FuturescapeinThe FuturescapeShould sex robots have the capacity to say “No”?[A]s sociable robots propose themselves as substitutes for people, new networked devices offer us machine-mediated relationships with each…Nov 14, 2019Nov 14, 2019
FuturescapeinThe FuturescapePossible Futures with NeuropoliticsThe human brain is the seat of politics. The motivations which drive political machinations can be traced to expressions of the human…Nov 14, 2019Nov 14, 2019