A Word In
Edgewise
Issues of the Day and Grand Visions of the Future
About this publication:
- Masthead and Protest
Coupon
- Email
to author (Dick Fredericksen)
- Author's
home page
Topics gathering for a new issue:
- Milton
Friedman: A Memorial Tidbit
Selected topics:
- Social
Security as a Source of Space Funding
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A talk prepared for the 19th International Space
Development Conference relates Social Security reform to the
space frontier. |
- Affordable
Social Security: Good Will Between Generations
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How to cope with an aging population --- and
be an aging population --- without burdening the young
or encouraging the old to die a little sooner. |
- Downsizing
the CPI
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Revisions to the CPI (Consumer Price Index).
Were we exaggerating inflation before? Will it sneak up on us
now? What's at stake, and for whom? |
- I Have a Pipedream
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Artificial intelligence, human-machine integration,
and near-immortality: all space and all time within reach. (Well,
maybe not all, but enough to be ecstatic about.) |
- Full
Issues (these include regular and occasional features such as
"Teeming Quick Reactions" and "Backtalk from Readers",
besides the lead articles as noted):
- A Word In
Edgewise, Issue #11, May, 2000
- -- Social Security as a Source of Space Funding
- A Word In
Edgewise, Issue #10, May, 1999
- -- Affordable Social Security: Good Will
Between Generations
- A Word In Edgewise,
Issue #9, November, 1997
-- revisions to the CPI (Consumer Price Index)
and sundry other matters
Sometimes I serialize an extended article over
several issues. Such was the case with "I Have a Pipedream",
which occupied issues #5, #6, #7, and #8. These
appeared "back when" -- way back when, in 1971.
I've republished them here, adapted for online presentation, as
a prelude to other things I intend to write. Besides, I think
they're still a worthwhile alternative to the prevailing views
of technology, the environment, and possible human futures.
- A Word
In Edgewise, Issue #5, January , 1971
- -- One small stretch for an imagination --
Work in progress
- A Word
In Edgewise, Issue #6, February, 1971
-- Biology gets a metaphor -- A robot gets its head together
- A Word
In Edgewise, Issue #7, April, 1971
- -- The Columbus question -- The Isabella
question
- A Word
In Edgewise, Issue #8, June, 1971
-- The Wright Brothers question -- The three lores of robotics
