The notion of a universe filled with cowards... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become... seems no[t] only unimaginative and temporally myopic, but deeply dismal, as well.
David BrinTag: seti first-contact
Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
David BrinTag: reciprocity reciprocal-accountability
But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by just how well we served, when alone we were Earth’s caretakers.
David BrinTag: kindlehighlight
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
David BrinTag: judgement privacy accountability judging
If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash.
They should stand up..
Tag: science economics competition free-market
Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.
David BrinTag: class-warfare class-war
If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.
David BrinTag: fdr middle-class class-war
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
David BrinIndeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?
David BrinYour faith in Homo technologicus -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause.
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