Year: 2012
Frankenstein Graduate Position at ASU
Attention prospective Arizona State University graduate students! ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination and Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes are seeking a Graduate Research Assistant as part of
First Principles
Newly released: American Dreamers, a collection of “dreams from optimists, inventors and mavericks with ideas for a brighter future.” My essay (online here) leads off the book with a look at the combustible, illuminating nature of good ideas and the unique optimism of the American Dream. It’s also a pretty good declaration of principles for what we are trying to accomplish at the Center for Science and the Imagination.
How tall can we build?
One of our Hieroglyph collaborations.
ASU-Intel collaboration challenges students to imagine brighter sustainable futures
Sci-fi writers help scientists bridge gap between fantasy and reality
Future is Now at ASU with New 293k-Square-Foot Science, Tech Hub
Contest: Help Us Imagine and Build a Better Future–No Politics Required
Introducing the Center for Science and the Imagination
A Place Where Science and Science Fiction Can Be of One Mind
The Launch
Video: Tomorrow Project
ASU Launches Center for Science and the Imagination
Center for Science and the Imagination to Launch at ASU’s Newest Interdisciplinary Building, ISTB4
How Neal Stephenson’s 20-Kilometer Space Tower Could Change Everything
Sci-Fi Author Alan Dean Foster to Appear at ASU
Space Tower: Could We Build a Stratosphere Skyscraper?
The Center for Science and the Imagination
Tomorrow Project: Humanities – Imagining Our Future (And Yes, Tweeting Cows!)
Ron Broglio, Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, discusses how philosophy, aesthetics and literature can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment.