Miscellaneous

At our October 15 meeting, with five people in attendance, the discussion focused on many political - and a few non-political - ideas:

• The occupation of Iraq and what we could do about it,
• Nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran and what we could do about it,
• The sense of biological-economic-nuclear apocalypse and whether it's overblown,
• September 11^th and its political uses,
• Immigration problems and if in fact there is an immigration problem,
• The ability to trascend age (living longer than ever) and the space-time continuum (time travel),
• The social restraints on applying and distributing these various technologies, and
• Other points of discussion to come out of the Idea Festival (a recent gathering of different visionaries and scientists to discuss the future of science).