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Science funding was hit in 2025. What does that mean for the future? – Consider This from NPR – NPR
Consider This from NPR Science funding was hit in 2025. What does that mean for the future? December 23, 20254:27 PM ET, 11-Minute Listen Transcript 2025 was a hard year for science. The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across agencies like NASA, NIH and NOAA. PR’s Rob Stein…
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Award-winning journalists encourage students to embrace AI in the future of journalism – The Berkeley Beacon
Award-winning journalists encourage students to embrace AI in the future of journalism By Jules Telfort, Staff Copyeditor / November 24, 2025 View Story Comments, 2 A panel of journalists discuss the newsroom utility of artificial intelligence in Bill Bordy Theater on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (Courtesy / Lu Ann Reeb) On Wednesday evening in the…
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When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future – Literary Hub
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future Maris Kreizman on the Dangers of the AI Content Churn By Maris Kreizman, November 6, 2025 Maris Kreizman Maris Kreizman hosted the literary podcast, The Maris Review, for four years. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic,…
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Unlawful Deportation, Judicial Defiance, and Project 2025: The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the Future of American Rule of Law
Comments by DrWeb, Analysis by Perplexity AI Comments: I awoke this morning again seeing the disturbing Oval Office visit with a dictator. It was a shameful idea of American presidency, actions, and democratic principles. I thought this seemed a pattern, this ICE-Deport-Anyone-Not-Ours-Anymore. So, with AI assistance, I went back to look at the parts of…
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Make it so! Star Trek: The Next Generation remains radically hopeful television | Television | The Guardian
By Paul Verhoeven, Tue 11 Apr 2023 11.00 EDT In the 1992 comedy Wayne’s World, Wayne Campbell makes a wise observation about the comparisons made between sparkling wine and champagne. “It is a lot like Star Trek: The Next Generation,” he notes of sparkling wine. “In many ways it’s superior, but will never be as…
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All The SciFi Noir and Speculative Thrillers You Need to Get Through 2022 | CrimeReads
Even in the future, nothing works… January 20, 2022, By Molly Odintz Maybe it’s just the size of my apartment and my comparative isolation over the past two years, but I’ve rediscovered a love for stories set in tiny spaceships where no one can hear you scream (or cry into your cat’s fur or whatever). We’re also…
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Aside: books & tablets (technology) | FOOD FOR THOUGHT
While watching S3 E4, “Tailspin,” of “Manifest,” on NBC, I saw this intriguing image of a tablet and a book. It made me think of the ways technologies (of now and the future) often integrate and merge with older technologies (i.e. books in this case). I was thinking about how television didn’t replace radio –it…
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Futuristic Space Technology Concepts | NASA
Futuristic Space Technology Concepts Selected by NASA for Initial Study Early-stage research into futuristic space ideas – a lunar levitation track system, light bending lunar power system, method for making soil from asteroid material, and more – could help revolutionize NASA’s technology toolbox and pioneer new kinds of missions. More than a dozen researchers from…
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BBC – Future – How to build the largest optical telescope ever created
Scientists from around the globe are working together to build the largest ever ‘eye’ through which we can observe the finer details of the Universe. Source: BBC – Future – How to build the largest optical telescope ever created
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During Trump’s present, it’s hard to write the future, says science fiction writer John Scalzi – LA Times
NeverTrump11 by Michael McCulley is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal It’s difficult to focus on writing, particularly fiction, when the world feels like it’s on fire. “To be sure, these times — by which I mean the Trump era to date, let’s go ahead and avoid cutesy winking allusions — are making it hard for…
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Internet Scout
Libraries Past Libraries Present Libraries Future .. is the theme for the latest The Scout Report.. get your own issue, sign up! Source: Internet Scout
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Will scientists wipe out disease by 2030? | SanDiegoUnionTribune.com
Is it possible that scientists will be able to wipe out most diseases in about 15 years?Famed inventor-futurist Ray Kurzweil says yes — a claim that’s expected to stir debate this week in San Diego when some of the nation’s top thinkers meet to discuss the near-term future of medicine.More than 750 scientists, engineers, physicians…
