The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape
by Jonathan Scott · 21 Mar 2019 · 307pp · 90,490 words
. Much as Christian had inspired a generation of players to electrify and amplify their instruments, so the Nature paper put forward a realistic strategy for searching for extraterrestrial intelligence. It pointed out that scientists now had equipment within their grasp that could scan for radio signals from any alien civilisation with comparable technology. Written
…
therefore how many civilisations there might be. It was originally conceived by Frank as a tool to stimulate debate at the first meeting of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) at Green Bank, West Virginia, in 1961 (the site of the first modern SETI experiment, ‘Project Ozma’, the year before) rather than as a
…
mission long before the other. So it made sense that the first vessel to reach the outers should be Voyager 1. 14 SETI stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. There is also the branch CETI (Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence), which focuses on interstellar messages designed to be understood by another technological civilisation – Frank’s
…
here, here, here, here, here Saturn V here, here Schaar, Gunnel Almgren here Schorn, Ronald A. Voyager’s Grand Tour here, here Schurmeier, Bud here Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Seeger, Peter here sequencing here Sesame Street here Shakhashiri, Amahl here, here, here, here, here
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
by William Poundstone · 3 Jun 2019 · 283pp · 81,376 words
to 100 million years. Could we detect regular broadcast signals from distant stars? It’s not likely, given the technology at our end. Our SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) efforts bank more on the hopeful prospect that advanced ETs will want to communicate with us and are able to build superpowerful beacons to do
The Second Intelligent Species: How Humans Will Become as Irrelevant as Cockroaches
by Marshall Brain · 6 Apr 2015 · 215pp · 56,215 words
. Every day there is a new report of a UFO somewhere in the world. And there is a very well known effort called SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - that hopes to intercept radio signals from intelligent life on other planets. Just think of all of the popular movies that have explored the possibility
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
by Michael Benson · 2 Apr 2018 · 614pp · 174,633 words
been worked out before, of course, most famously by astronomer Frank Drake as an analytical tool for the first meeting in 1961 of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence—a meeting that Sagan had attended. After a lot of debate, the SETI group had produced a figure of between a thousand and a hundred
…
Sellers, Peter, 41, 43, 262, 315, 433 “Sentinel, The” (Clarke), 20–21, 22, 30, 31, 44, 48, 53, 54, 88, 89, 102 Serendib, 26 SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 19 Seventh Seal, The, 200 Shadow on the Sun, 37, 38, 44, 45, 48, 139 Shapiro, Michael, 422 Shapley, Harlow, 69 Shaw, Artie, 35, 38
The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars
by Jo Marchant · 15 Jan 2020 · 544pp · 134,483 words
and wrote “Wow!” in the margin. The signal was never detected again and never explained.* In 2015, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner helped to push the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) toward the mainstream when he donated $100 million to create a project called Breakthrough Listen, based at the University of California, Berkeley. That’s
…
holds. Just as looking for life elsewhere makes us question how life relates to the cosmos and even the essence of what life is, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been forced to grow into something more profound. Again, we become part of something bigger. Human nature, rather than being the universal, inevitable state
…
30, 2017, https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/30/distant-galaxy-sends-out-15-high-energy-radio-bursts/. “exotic small-scale scientific enterprise”: Michael Michaud, “Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,” in Dick, Life Beyond Earth, 295. most sophisticated civilizations: Susan Schneider, “Alien Minds,” in Dick, Life Beyond Earth, 189–206. see intelligence as a tool
…
; power of religion vs. science; individual fields of study Science (journal), 232, 234, 250, 271, 272 Score, Roberta, 257–59, 265, 285 Scorpio (constellation), 32 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), 283 Seleucos (Mesopotamian general), 67 Sennacherib (king of Assyria), 44, 45, 47 Seurat, Georges, 203 Seven Years’ War, 133, 151, 160 Sextant (Barrie), 135
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by Carl Sagan · 8 Sep 1997 · 356pp · 102,224 words
is made—and this the last moment before we discover that someone in the darkness is calling out to us. This quest is called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Let me describe how far we've come. The first SETI program was carried out by Frank Drake at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
…
There? (New York: Delacorte, 1992). Paul Horowitz and Carl Sagan, "Project META: A Five-Year All-Sky Narrowband Radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence," Astrophysical Journal, vol. 415 (1992), pp. 218-235. Thomas R. McDonough, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1987). Carl Sagan, Contact: A Novel (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985) . CHAPTER
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
by Isaac Asimov · 2 Jan 1979 · 330pp · 99,226 words
are the questions that must be asked once we agree that we are not alone, and astronomers are asking them. The whole matter of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has now become so common, in fact, that it has been abbreviated to save trouble in referring to it. Astronomers now refer to it as
…
SETI, from the initials of the phrase “the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.” The first scientific discussion of SETI that offered a hope of carrying through the search successfully came only in 1959. It is natural to suppose
…
some abstract scale, it will prove useful and reasonable for the purposes of this book. Fire sets us on a road that ends with a search for extraterrestrial intelligence; without fire we would never have made it. The extraterrestrial intelligences we are looking for, then, must have developed the use of fire (or, to
…
on the level of bacterial life on Earth. Such simple life would be quite sufficient to excite biologists and astronomers, but as far as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is concerned, we are left with what is overwhelmingly likely to be zero. We must look elsewhere. *There may be small amounts of water in
…
stimulates hatred and fear and increases steadily the chance that the nations of the Earth will wipe out each other and, perhaps, all humanity, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is something that would surely have a uniting effect on us all. The mere thought of other civilizations advanced beyond our own, of a Galaxy
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
by Richard Dawkins · 15 Mar 2017 · 420pp · 130,714 words
next ‘dart’, ‘Searching under the lamp-post’, on the same subject but in lighter vein, takes a somewhat sceptical look at one approach to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The final piece in this section both continues the thread of science-based speculation and sets out with unmistakable clarity a crucial distinction: that between
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch · 30 Jun 2011 · 551pp · 174,280 words
creation of knowledge exhibits that underlying unity. In Arecibo, Puerto Rico, there is a giant radio telescope, one of whose many uses is in the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). In an office in a building near the telescope there is a small domestic refrigerator. Inside that refrigerator is a bottle of champagne, sealed
Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
by Lee Billings · 2 Oct 2013 · 326pp · 97,089 words
leaned back, adjusted his large bifocal glasses, folded his hands over his belly, and assessed the fallen fortunes of his chosen scientific field: SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. “Things have slowed down, and we’re in bad shape in several ways,” Drake rumbled. “The money simply isn’t there these days. And we
…
and Philip Morrison, “Searching for Interstellar Communications,” Nature, vol. 184 (1959), pp. 844–46. Frank Drake and Dava Sobel, Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (New York: Delacorte Press, 1992). I quote Drake from page 27. Stanislaw Lem, Summa Technologiae (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013; first edition, 1964). Translated
…
. 287–93. Iosif Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe (San Francisco: Holden-Day, 1966). Walter Sullivan, We Are Not Alone: The Continuing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, rev. ed. (New York: Dutton, 1993). Otto Struve, “Proposal for a Project of High-Precision Stellar Radial Velocity Work,” The Observatory, vol. 72 (1952), pp
…
and Space Science Library, vol. 144 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988), pp. 391–94. Frank Drake and Dava Sobel, Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (New York: Delacorte Press, 1992). Drake’s calculation of how many boxes of corn flakes the Arecibo Observatory radio dish could hold appears on pages
…
–58, 262 Wevrick and, 244–49, 251–56, 264 Wevrick’s illness and death and, 253–56, 264, 265 Wevrick’s marriage to, 249 SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence), 9–14, 38, 41 Arecibo Observatory and, 41 Drake equation and, 16–25 first modern search by, 10–11 Green Bank conference of, 15–25
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by Michael Shermer · 1 Jan 1997 · 404pp · 134,430 words
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past)
by Cixin Liu · 11 Nov 2014 · 420pp · 119,928 words
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind
by Susan Schneider · 1 Oct 2019 · 331pp · 47,993 words
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan · 1 Jan 1980 · 404pp · 131,034 words
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
by Timothy Ferris · 30 Jun 1988 · 661pp · 169,298 words
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe
by Marcus Chown · 22 Apr 2019 · 171pp · 51,276 words
The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
by Robert Zubrin · 30 Apr 2019 · 452pp · 126,310 words
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 27 Feb 2012 · 476pp · 118,381 words
Beyond: Our Future in Space
by Chris Impey · 12 Apr 2015 · 370pp · 97,138 words
The Simulation Hypothesis
by Rizwan Virk · 31 Mar 2019 · 315pp · 89,861 words
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
by Jim Bell · 24 Feb 2015 · 310pp · 89,653 words
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
by Jeff Hawkins · 15 Nov 2021 · 253pp · 84,238 words
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
by Rowan Hooper · 15 Jan 2020 · 285pp · 86,858 words
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil · 14 Jul 2005 · 761pp · 231,902 words
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins · 12 Sep 2006 · 478pp · 142,608 words
Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili · 22 Oct 2012 · 208pp · 70,860 words
Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
by Brian Clegg · 8 Dec 2015 · 315pp · 92,151 words
Interplanetary Robots
by Rod Pyle
Open Space: From Earth to Eternity--the Global Race to Explore and Conquer the Cosmos
by David Ariosto · 24 Mar 2026 · 433pp · 116,344 words
Statistics hacks
by Bruce Frey · 9 May 2006 · 755pp · 121,290 words
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
by Jared Diamond · 2 Jan 1991 · 436pp · 140,256 words
Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
by Donald Goldsmith · 9 Sep 2018 · 265pp · 76,875 words
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Jan 2003 · 351pp · 96,780 words
Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System
by Ray Jayawardhana · 3 Feb 2011 · 257pp · 66,480 words
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 10 Sep 2018 · 745pp · 207,187 words
The Mission: A True Story
by David W. Brown · 26 Jan 2021
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
by John Brockman · 5 Oct 2015 · 481pp · 125,946 words
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
by Ozan Varol · 13 Apr 2020 · 389pp · 112,319 words
Peer-to-Peer
by Andy Oram · 26 Feb 2001 · 673pp · 164,804 words
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
by Michio Kaku · 15 Mar 2011 · 523pp · 148,929 words
The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
by Diane Ackerman · 9 Sep 2014 · 380pp · 104,841 words
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
by Martin J. Rees · 14 Oct 2018 · 193pp · 51,445 words
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
by Carl Zimmer · 9 Mar 2021 · 392pp · 109,945 words
Lost at Sea
by Jon Ronson · 1 Oct 2012 · 375pp · 106,536 words
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton · 19 Sep 2016 · 1,048pp · 187,324 words
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
by Moiya McTier · 14 Aug 2022 · 194pp · 63,798 words
Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight
by Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-dahlstrom and Charles D. Walker · 1 Jun 2011 · 376pp · 110,796 words
Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
by Jane McGonigal · 22 Mar 2022 · 420pp · 135,569 words
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil · 31 Dec 1998 · 696pp · 143,736 words
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
by Oliver Morton · 26 Sep 2015 · 469pp · 142,230 words
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
by George Gilder · 16 Jul 2018 · 332pp · 93,672 words
The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity
by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt · 18 Oct 2000 · 353pp · 355 words
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection
by Gardner Dozois · 23 Jun 2009 · 1,263pp · 371,402 words
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
by Amanda Montell · 14 Jun 2021 · 244pp · 73,700 words
Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy
by Melanie Swan · 22 Jan 2014 · 271pp · 52,814 words
The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise
by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher · 1 Dec 2009
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
by Jane McGonigal · 20 Jan 2011 · 470pp · 128,328 words
50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Richard Watson · 5 Nov 2013 · 219pp · 63,495 words
Warnings
by Richard A. Clarke · 10 Apr 2017 · 428pp · 121,717 words
When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
by Jim Holt · 14 May 2018 · 436pp · 127,642 words
Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-To-Peer Debates
by John Logie · 29 Dec 2006 · 173pp · 14,313 words
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
by James Barrat · 30 Sep 2013 · 294pp · 81,292 words
The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld · 31 Mar 2011 · 239pp · 56,531 words
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by David Brin · 1 Jan 1998 · 205pp · 18,208 words
The Music of the Primes
by Marcus Du Sautoy · 26 Apr 2004 · 434pp · 135,226 words
Space 2.0
by Rod Pyle · 2 Jan 2019 · 352pp · 87,930 words
The Lights in the Tunnel
by Martin Ford · 28 May 2011 · 261pp · 10,785 words
As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Work, Health & Wealth
by Juan Enriquez · 15 Feb 2001 · 239pp · 45,926 words
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff · 8 Jul 2024 · 272pp · 103,638 words
The Scandal of Money
by George Gilder · 23 Feb 2016 · 209pp · 53,236 words
The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth
by Guillaume Pitron · 14 Jun 2023 · 271pp · 79,355 words
Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
by Robin Chase · 14 May 2015 · 330pp · 91,805 words
Beautiful security
by Andy Oram and John Viega · 15 Dec 2009 · 302pp · 82,233 words
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future
by John Brockman · 18 Jan 2011 · 379pp · 109,612 words
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
by Lawrence Lessig · 14 Jul 2001 · 494pp · 142,285 words
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
by David Christian · 21 May 2018 · 334pp · 100,201 words
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words
The Four: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Divided and Conquered the World
by Scott Galloway · 2 Oct 2017 · 305pp · 79,303 words
The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto
by Benjamin Wallace · 18 Mar 2025 · 431pp · 116,274 words
All the Money in the World
by Peter W. Bernstein · 17 Dec 2008 · 538pp · 147,612 words
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna · 23 May 2016 · 437pp · 113,173 words
Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
by Eric Siegel · 19 Feb 2013 · 502pp · 107,657 words
What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live
by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers · 2 Jan 2010 · 411pp · 80,925 words
Caribbean Islands
by Lonely Planet
Hacking Capitalism
by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;