We begin with John Hawk of the somewhat prosaically yet nonetheless accurately named John Hawk’s Anthropology Weblog, who presents a fascinating essay on human evolution as it stands now. As he explains it, the ways in which we are evolving are changing: For the most part, the kinds of selection that have been operating in […]

Time travel is one of our favorite topics here at the Speculist. Whenever we take a moment to reflect on what might be or what might have been, we journey through time, if only in our imaginations. That’s a good start, but of course it isn’t enough. What we really want is time travel of […]

We’ll kick off another foray into the Fabulous World of Tomorrow with these words from Howard Lovy: This is the assumption I wake up with every day — that there is a crucial need for as many people as possible to understand that we all, in our lifetimes, will experience vast technological changes that will […]

We begin our collection of futuristic highlights from around the blogosphere with these profound words, penned by legendary filmmaker Ed Wood and given voice by one of the most renowned, er, visionaries of the 20th century, the Amazing Kreskin: We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going […]