Carl Sagan – On my Om

November 9, 2018

Carl Sagan on Dystopia, Fake News & Big Tech

Happy birthday, Carl Sagan. Thanks for leaving a legacy and the gift of your writings. In his 1995 book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, noted writer, astronomer and philosopher Sagan noted: I have a foreboding of an America in my children s or grandchildren s time — when the United … Continue reading Carl Sagan on Dystopia, Fake News & Big Tech

October 29, 2012

Carl Sagan & America’s dystopic future

My friend Steve just started reading Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World from 1987. In an email this morning Steve shared an “interesting, but very dystopic, paragraph.” “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the Unites States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries … Continue reading Carl Sagan & America’s dystopic future