Tagged: future

What Will Earth Look Like in 500 Years?

If you could travel back in time five centuries, you’d encounter an Aztec empire nearly at the end of its run, fresh paintings from Raphael, Titian and Durer, and cooler temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere. This was a world in the midst of the Little...

NASA’s 2016 Budget Is Looking Out of This World

There’s good news for NASA in 2016: Congress passed an omnibus spending bill that will provide nearly $19.3 billion in funding to the space agency. That’s an increase of about $1.3 billion from 2015, and it’s $756 million more than what the president requested for...

Jeff Bezos Wants to Move Heavy Industry to Space

In an interview at Code Conference 2016, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos talked through a few lofty goals. Literally lofty. Like, orbital. Bezos wants to see heavy industry move into space entirely, and he wants space startups to become as common as internet startups...

Is Everything Predetermined Or Do We Have A Free Will?

Does the future already exist? What power do we have as individuals to influence events in our lives? Scientists, philosophers and theologians have long wondered whether everything is predetermined or if we have a free will? The subject is one of the greatest mysteries in...