Music About the only things that are unique to Earth are our biota and our culture. If aliens ever come here, they'd most likely be either biologists or... Seth Shostak 29
Design Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that's a different take on... Seth Shostak 32
Creativity We'll be 'outsourcing' our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our... Seth Shostak 29
Computers By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw... Seth Shostak 29
Computers Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking... Seth Shostak 30
cool Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans... Seth Shostak 32
Dating Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest - or that at least they didn't cheat. So... Seth Shostak 22
Dating 'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent... Seth Shostak 27
