“Your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it.” -Doctor Emmett L. Brown, Back to the Future Part III I was nearing my thirteenth birthday when I heard that line — a call to action from a character that embodied scientific curiosity, exploration, and DIY. Unfortunately for me,…

I’d like to thank Google for having us here today; and Neal Stephenson, Ed Finn, and Jennifer Brehl, for the chance to collaborate on the anthology Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future. And thank you all for joining us for the first event of our Hieroglyph Roadshow. In July of 2011, Neal asked me…

Over at Sploid, Jesus Diaz posted a model for a space settlement, created by Bryan Versteeg of Spacehabs, based on actual scientific principles. To learn more about the space settlement and the thinking behind it, check out the Sploid post. Behold the settlement in action: