Choosing Our Futures

Still "Choosing Our Futures": How Many Apples in the Seed?

James G. Neal is University Librarian Emeritus at Columbia University; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 James G. Neal, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American essayist and poet, noted in his Journals1 that “sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.” Perhaps the authors of the remarkable paper “Choosing Our Future...

Choosing Among Alternative Futures

Non-determinism is a serious impediment to testing and debugging concurrent programs. Such programs do not execute the same way each time they are run, which can hide the presence of errors. Existing techniques use a variety of mechanisms that attempt to increase the probability of uncovering error conditions by altering the execution sequence of a concurrent program, but do not test for specif...

Designer babies: choosing our children's genes.

Choosing the Bright Futures Guidelines: lessons from leaders and early adopters.

Gregory S. Blaschke, MD, MPH, FAAP, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; practices at Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA; and is a Captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy. Joseph O. Lopreiato, MD, MPH, FAAP, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; practices at Naval Medical Center, San D...

Climate change and Destiny Studies: Creating our near and far futures

Climate changemakes stringent demandson thinking about our future.Weneed two-sided reasoning to contend equitably with the risks of climate change and the risks of Òsolutions.Ó We need to differentiate the future 500 years fromnow and 50 years fromnow. This essay explores three pressing climate change issues, using both the 500-year and the 50-year time frames: sea level rise, the nuclear power...