David Brin

David Brin, a scientist and best-selling author whose future-oriented novels include Earth, The Postman, and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War, is a 2010 Fellow of the IEET. Brin is known as a leading commentator on modern technological, social, and political trends. His nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award from the American Library Association. Brin’s most recent novel, Kiln People, explores a fictional near future when people use cheap copies of themselves to be in two places at once. The Life Eaters—a graphic novel—explores a chilling alternative outcome of World War II. David’s newest novel - Existence - is now available, published by Tor Books.

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Blog

Tomorrow Happens

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Books

The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays by eds. Max More and Natasha Vita-More (2013)

Existence by David Brin (2012)

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Articles

"Mixed News from Space"   CONTRARY BRIN  May 18, 2013

"Dilbert, Skynet and the latest from the transparency front"   Ethical Technology  May 7, 2013

"Science - Technology Roundup"   Ethical Technology  May 4, 2013

"Sensible Tax Reform, Wealth disparities.. and Gun Control"   Ethical Technology  Apr 30, 2013

"A potpourri of ironies for the weekend"   Ethical Technology  Apr 27, 2013

"Science-Fictional News—some dark and some hopeful"   Ethical Technology  Apr 25, 2013

"See-it, believe-it proof… plus smart mobs and cool science"   Ethical Technology  Apr 20, 2013

"Questions I am frequently asked about… (Part V) Transparency, Privacy and the Information Age"   Ethical Technology  Apr 10, 2013

"Hugo Awards and other Science-Fictional News"   CONTRARY BRIN  Apr 6, 2013

"Technologies that might change everything"   Ethical Technology  Mar 30, 2013

"Questions I am frequently asked about… (Part IV) Prediction and the Future"   Contrary Brin  Mar 22, 2013

"Corn, Ethanol, Farms, Food and the Logic of the Granary"   Ethical Technology  Mar 17, 2013

"Questions I am frequently asked about… (Part III) Brin Books, The Postman etc."   Ethical Technology  Mar 11, 2013

"Questions I’m often asked. Part II: About Science Fiction!"   Ethical Technology  Mar 7, 2013

"“Primer” Technologies For Enhancing 21st Century Citizenship"   Ethical Technology  Mar 2, 2013

"Exciting possibilities in (and about) space!"   Ethical Technology  Feb 20, 2013

"Things only a zillionaire could do to save America"   davidbrin.blogspot.com  Feb 19, 2013

"From Glass-shattering Asteroids to Transparency…"   Ethical Technology  Feb 17, 2013

"Questions I am frequently asked about… Writing and Science Fiction"   davidbrin.blogspot.com  Feb 16, 2013

"The end of ID and credit card safety? Must e-commerce be destroyed?"   Ethical Technology  Feb 13, 2013

"Past keeping faith with future… and day with night"   davidbrin.blogspot.com  Feb 8, 2013

"Science Fiction and Our Duty to the Past"   http://davidbrin.blogspot.com  Feb 4, 2013

"The Flynn Effect: are we getting smarter?"   davidbrin.blogspot  Feb 3, 2013

"Hidden factors in the rush to immigration reform"   davidbrin.blogspot  Feb 3, 2013

"The Jefferson Rifle"   Contrary Brin  Jan 28, 2013

"Last-minute breakthroughs and remembrances, before the “end of the world”"   Ethical Technology  Dec 15, 2012

"Reconsidering Copyright"   Ethical Technology  Dec 12, 2012

"Science—nostalgia and foresight"   Ethical Technology  Dec 7, 2012

"Live-Blogging the Morning of Day Two of Humanity+ San Francisco"   Ethical Technology  Dec 2, 2012

"Live-Blogging Morning of Day One of Humanity+ San Francisco"   Ethical Technology  Dec 1, 2012

"Is Law Enforcement Going Dark? Dilbert’s Dilemma and Transparency Crises"   Ethical Technology  Nov 26, 2012

"Existence, Uplift, and Science News"   Sentient Developments  Oct 28, 2012

"A Conversation About Political Maturity: Is it Possible?"   Contrary Brin  Oct 26, 2012

"Has 21st Century Science Fiction Gone Cowardly? Or Worse… Nostalgic?"   Contrary Brin  Oct 24, 2012

"The “Tytler” Insult—Is Democracy Hopeless?"   Contrary Brin  Oct 17, 2012

"Unusual Topics To Raise at the USA Presidential Debate"   Contrary Brin  Oct 10, 2012

"Banned Books Week - Censorship, Indignation, and our Hopes for Freedom"   Contrary Brin  Oct 6, 2012

"Crowd-Sourcing “Citizen Science,” New Products and Ideas"   Contrary Brin  Sep 30, 2012

"Intelligence, Uplift, and Our Place in a Big Cosmos"   Contrary Brin  Sep 26, 2012

"Will the World’s Middle Class Rise Up to Reclaim $21 Trillion Hoard Hidden Offshore by Global Elite?"   Contrary Brin  Sep 4, 2012

"Are Animals Intelligent… Enough?  Do They Want to be… Smarter?"   Contrary Brin  Aug 30, 2012

"Human Evolution: Speeding? Splitting? Borging?... and a dozen Olympics?"   Contrary Brin  Aug 8, 2012

"Renaming Killers—the Idea Spreads"   Contrary Brin  Jul 27, 2012

"The First Synthetic Organism: Our Victor Frankenstein Moment?"   Contrary Brin  Jul 24, 2012

"Deny Killers the Notoriety They Seek"   Contrary Brin  Jul 23, 2012

"Bulletins from the Transparency Front"   Contrary Brin  Jul 21, 2012

"Accelerating Dangers and Opportunities from Transparency"   Contrary Brin  Jul 20, 2012

"Do Sci Fi Attitudes Reflect Our Times?"   Contrary Brin  Jul 8, 2012

"On the Transparency Front: Secrecy, Drones and War"   Contrary Brin  Jul 7, 2012

"Your e-Reading Habits are “Public”- Kindles, iPads and Nooks are Tracking You"   Contrary Brin  Jul 6, 2012

"Winners of the “Why Are We Alone?” Contest"   Contrary Brin  Jun 23, 2012

"NASA Receives Two New Huge Telescopes for Orbital Use"   Contrary Brin  Jun 8, 2012

"Brain Preservation: Is Your Brain Worth the Bother?"   Contrary Brin  May 17, 2012

"Is Our Time in Outer Space Finally At-Hand?"   Contrary Brin  May 9, 2012

"Mining the Sky for Resources?"   Sentient Developments  Apr 28, 2012

"Is Technology offering Transparency…or Spying on us?"   Contrary Brin  Apr 25, 2012

"There is Madness on the Other Side Too: The Left’s War on Optimism"   Contrary Brin  Apr 13, 2012

"Celebrating Space! Solar Tornadoes, Exoplanets ‘n Micro Black Holes"   Contrary Brin  Apr 8, 2012

"From Brain Imaging to Parasite Infestations"   Contrary Brin  Apr 7, 2012

"Space-Launch Mass Drivers and von Neumann machines: Science meets Science Fiction"   Contrary Brin  Mar 28, 2012

"Apprenticeship"   Ethical Technology  Mar 23, 2012

"Unscientific America—Denying Science at Our Peril"   Contrary Brin  Mar 16, 2012

"Taser Cams, Mind Reading and the World to Come"   Contrary Brin  Mar 10, 2012

"Re-inventing the Future—When Incremental Advances aren’t Enough"   Ethical Technology  Feb 29, 2012

"Tax Inequity and the Middle Class—Top Issue for 2012"   Contrary Brin  Feb 17, 2012

"Must the Rich be Lured into Investing? Who are the Real “Job Creators?”"   Contrary Brin  Feb 8, 2012

"Is Libertarianism Fundamentally about Competition? Or about Property?"   Contrary Brin  Jan 30, 2012

"The Blackjack Generation"   Ethical Technology  Jan 27, 2012

"Do You Despise Congress? (If not, you’re probably not paying attention)"   Contrary Brin  Jan 16, 2012

"Do We Really Want Immortality?"   David Brin's Official Website  Jan 8, 2012

"#7: Our Worst Frailty: An Electro Magnetic “Hit”"   Contrary Brin  Dec 25, 2011

"Gingrich, Asimov, and the Computer-Trading Monster!"   Contrary Brin  Dec 17, 2011

"Atlas Shrugged: The Hidden Context of the Book and Film"   Contrary Brin  Dec 10, 2011

"Pining for Feudalism as an Antidote for Modernity"   Contrary Brin  Dec 1, 2011

"Roll over, Frank Miller: or why the Occupy Wall Street Kids are Better than the #$%! Spartans"   Contrary Brin  Nov 21, 2011

"How to Define Science Fiction"   Contrary Brin  Nov 3, 2011

"Was 1957 Better Than Today?"   Contrary Brin  Oct 23, 2011

"Geoengineering the Earth: Should we take aggressive action?"   Contrary Brin  Oct 8, 2011

"“Class War” and the Lessons of History"   Contrary Brin  Sep 25, 2011

"Libertarians and Conservatives must choose: Competitive Enterprise or Idolatry of Property"   Contrary Brin  Sep 22, 2011

"Wonders and Disburbances"   Contrary Brin  Sep 12, 2011

"Seasteading: Some problems on the way to Castle Sovereign"   Contrary Brin  Aug 25, 2011

"Milestones leading up to the Good Singularity?"   Contrary Brin  Jun 29, 2011

"Sousveillance: A New Era for Police Accountability"   Contrary Brin  Jun 19, 2011

"My Top Choices in Science-Oriented WebComics"   Contrary Brin  Jun 7, 2011

"Could Our Universe Be a Fake?"   Contrary Brin  May 13, 2011

"An Epidemic of Paranoia"   Contrary Brin  May 9, 2011

"Why Obstinate Humans Find It Hard To Believe Science"   Contrary Brin  Apr 24, 2011

"Our Worst Frailty: An Electro Magnetic “Hit”"   Contrary Brin  Apr 16, 2011

"The Difference Between Science Fiction and Fantasy"   Contrary Brin  Apr 10, 2011

"Internet Access as a Human Right"   Contrary Brin  Apr 4, 2011

"The Nuclear Crisis in Japan…and Yucca Mountain in Nevada"   Contrary Brin  Mar 28, 2011

"The Japan Tragedy"   Contrary Brin  Mar 14, 2011

"The Tucson Shooting and the ‘Magazine’ Gun Problem"   Contrary Brin  Jan 12, 2011

"Isaac Asimov and Human Destiny"   Contrary Brin  Jan 7, 2011

"#11: A Primer on Supply-Side vs Demand-Side Economics"   Ethical Technology  Dec 21, 2010

"The Quest for Individual Immortality"   Contrary Brin  Dec 12, 2010

"#22: The Real Struggle Behind Climate Change = A War on Expertise"   Ethical Technology  Dec 10, 2010

"#29: On Surveillance and Privacy"   Ethical Technology  Dec 3, 2010

"Science!"   Contrary Brin  Dec 1, 2010