by Joseph Green | science, science fiction, space |
ARTHUR C. CLARKE (who died Sir Arthur, after receiving a well-deserved knighthood) was a casual but long-term friend. He often had dinner at the Greenhouse when visiting the Kennedy Space Center. (He also attended the Apollo 11 prelaunch party at the Greenhouse, a...
by Joseph Green | science, space |
EARLIER THIS YEAR the local paper, Florida TODAY—highly space-oriented, since its territory includes the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center—carried a front page story that brought back vivid memories. The article said that space...
by Joseph Green | economics, science |
THE PUBLIC HAS LATELY HEARD a lot about income inequality in this country (and it’s about time!). Over the last 40-plus years, starting around the time of the Reagan administration (January 1981), the financial statistics tell us all the vastly increased wealth...
by Joseph Green | science |
IN MY FECKLESS YOUTH I once made a mathematical mistake, a technical error. Unfortunately, mine became embedded in the public consciousness throughout most of the world, and remains there today. I was reminded of this when reading an on-line European magazine report...
by Joseph Green | science fiction |
AS WE PLUNGE HEADLONG into a new century, science fiction has entered a period of change so profound and extensive it seems fair to call it a paradigm shift—most writers taking a new approach to producing the literature, so long despised by the cultural elite, that...
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