The Quiet Man Behind the Computer Revolution

Adam Keiper

Gordon Moore’s tech vision changed modern times. He wants his giving to change life 10,000 years from now.

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The New Atlantis Turns Ten

Adam Keiper

EPPC’s New Atlantis journal celebrates ten years of concentrating on the human side of scientific progress.

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National Review Online / May 20, 2013

Stem Cells, Life, and the Law

Adam Keiper

Monday's decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia halting all federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research…

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National Review Online / August 25, 2010

Feynman and the Futurists

Adam Keiper

On Dec. 29, 1959, Richard P. Feynman gave an after-dinner talk at an annual American Physical Society meeting in Pasadena,…

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The Wall Street Journal / January 8, 2010

When Folly Is Forever

Adam Keiper

Historians, accustomed to rummaging through document-stuffed archives, are now worrying about the future of the past. Our lives, they note,…

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The Wall Street Journal / October 22, 2009

The Synapse and the Soul

Adam Keiper

Human by Michael S. Gazzaniga (Ecco, 447 pages, $27.50) What is it that makes us human — that sets us…

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Wall Street Journal / July 8, 2008

Redeeming NASA

Adam Keiper

It was five years ago this month, on February 1, 2003, that the space shuttle Columbia, returning from two weeks…

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National Review Online / February 4, 2008

The March of the Machines

Adam Keiper

A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millenniumby Robert Friedel, MIT, 588 pages, $39.95 There’s a certain dark pleasure…

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Nanoethics as a Discipline?

Adam Keiper

Growing ranks of academics, analysts, and advocacy groups are focusing their attentions on the social and ethical implications of nanoscale…

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The New Atlantis, Winter 2006

Adam Keiper

The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes major essays on Man, Mind and Machine and the challenge to define what…

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The New Atlantis / February 20, 2006

The Age of Neuroelectronics

Adam Keiper

  The potential merging of mind and machine thrills, frightens, and intrigues us. For decades, experiments at the border between…

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The New Atlantis, Fall 2005

Adam Keiper

The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes major essays on the future of modern medicine, the moral education of our…

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