Key phrases for our final show of the year include “influencer–management companies”, “ten thousand Ronald Reagans”, and “the last full measure of devotion”. Also, the news from Finland should seriously call into question some of the more popular energy strategies, and the Chaos Computer Club is raising money for some folks who really need and deserve it.
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- 2024–12–31 “The future development of mankind, on the spiritual no less than the material plane, is bound up with the conquest of space.” On this final (366th) day of the year, I take the opportunity to read Arthur C Clarke’s famous essay The Challenge of the Spaceship (the version from the 1961 book of the same title).
- 2025–01–03 “The domain of the virus is apparently the threshold between what we have known in the past as the animate and the inanimate.” Back to Bucky Fuller and Utopia or Oblivion — The Prospects for Humanity, which seems very appropriate as we begin this Glorious Future Year of 2025.