A Blog of the Ridiculous and Sublime, by Mark Sackler
“A rising tide lifts all boats.”–popular stock market axiom
“At low tide, everything stinks.”–my apropos corollary to the above axiom, considering current markets
Need I say more? To all those young meme stock investors out there: welcome to the real world.
“If the technological Singularity can happen, it will.”–Vernor Vinge
Ray Kurzweil might throw a fit over this.
“Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”- Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis might be right, but asteroid mining is probably not imminent–at least not in the way that lunar mining is.
With both the NASA and the Chinese National Space Agency having designs on establishing permanent lunar bases within the next 5 to 10 years, mining on the moon will be a necessity. It’s just too expensive to supply all the needed resources to maintain the outposts from earth.
Daniel Sax is the cofounder and CEO of the Canadian Space Mining Corporation. His route to that post is, in itself, a fascinating tale. In this episode of Seeking Delphi,™ he explains both his personal journey and that of the company.
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Daniel Sax
Glossary
LEO–Low Earth Orbit
GEO–Geostationary (or Geosynchronous) orbit.
Lunar Gateway–A planned NASA project: a lunar orbiting space station to support future lunar landings and other deep space missions.
Artemis–The program name for the planned NASA missions to return to the moon in the 2020s and beyond.
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“On Halloween, the parents send their kids out dressed like me.”–Rodney Dangerfield
Poor Rodney. Seventeen years dead and still no respect. Trick or Treat!
“One martini is all right. Two are too many. Three are not enought.”–James Thurber
I could use one right about now.
“The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours..”–TS Elliott
Let’s hope that 2021 is kinder to us all. Calendar, or fiscal.
“I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That’s how you know someone is clever. They don’t come out and tell you pi to 13 places – they tell you a joke.”–Ricky Gervais
Happy 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 …Day.
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“Future shock is a sickness that comes from too much change in too short a time.”–Alvin Toffler
The newly released volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and looking ahead to the next 50 years. In this episode recorded just a few days after the book’s release, two of the contributing essayists, Jerome Glenn and Andrew Curry, discuss with me their views on the legacy of Toffler and Future Shock. Below are links to the audio podcast as well as to the unedited YouTube video of the original webinar.
The day I read Future Shock, just a couple of years after it came out, was the day that started me on the course to becoming a futurist. Here’s what I wrote on this blog when Toffler died in July of 2016.
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Jerome Glenn
episode #41, After Shock and the Legacy of Alvin Toffler
YouTube vidoe of original, unedited webinar
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“For me, the key to longevity – and immortality, in a sense – has to do with transformation.”–Marilyn Manson
Is transformation the key to immortality? A better question is: will radical life extension–the end of aging–in itself be transformative? I believe the answer to that second question is a resounding yes.
In this special Seeking Delphi™ podcast, four of the world’s biggest thought leaders and advocates for ending aging discuss implications and issues involved in achieving human rejuvenation therapy, and begin the discussion of what a post-ageing world might look like. We only scratched the very surface on the latter issues–there will be more to come on the subject.
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Episode#40–The Dawn of Superlongevity: Scenarios for a Post-Aging Future.
YouTube video of the complete unedited program
Panelist Biographies
Panelist Organizations
Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF)
Association of Professional Futurists.
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“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”–Groucho Marx
“What the world needs now is more Grouchos and fewer grouches.”–me
Don’t look now, but most annual deductibles for health insurance in the US now cost a lot more than most people made in a year back in Groucho’s day. Indeed, the world needs more Grouchos.
I'm not the most interesting man in the world, but I might have the most cluttered mind.
The Millennium Conjectures™ 