The Omnipotence Blog
Extrapolating into the near future of mankind
The Omnipotence Blog takes the view that the key events and decisions that will decide the future of mankind, as advancing technology brings it to the threshold of interaction with extra-terrestrial intelligent beings, are fast approaching. There is no room for fantasy. The social, philosophical and technological pre-cursors of our civilization are already in place and deeply imbedded. We will learn a lot more, but the time scale is too short for us to evolve physically or neurologically. Our instinctive behaviours will be as they are now. The pressure may come from deteriorating conditions on our own planet, or competition from outside, but our period of cosy isolation on Planet Earth is fast coming to an end – and, judging by our current political behavior, we are woefully unprepared. If you are interested in these themes, this blog is for you…
Global Warming – Will we be Toast?
Forecasting has a spotty history; spectacularly successful for the few but disastrous for many, and opining on the validity of forecasts is arguably the most odiously subjective science of all. But global warming is occurring, so we have to, don’t we? We can say that...
read moreWhere are the aliens?
The discovery of a new exoplanet is becoming a frequent hyper press event, which never fails to provoke general excitement and speculation. Astronomers claim to have detected about 3,500 exoplanets in total so far, while guesses as to the number of potentially...
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