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POPSlife is destined to become more complex "We must not forget that bacteria – very simple organisms – are among the most successful living things. Therefore, the trend towards complexity is compelling but does not describe the history of all life.”
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POPSThe Great Silence His question became famously known as the Fermi Paradox. The paradox is the contradiction between the high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and yet the lack of evidence for, or contact with, any such civilizations.
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POPSClock of Life: A Biography of Planet Earth "The last life may look much like the first life – a single-celled bacterium, survivor and descendant of all that came before," the authors write. Finally, even the surviving microbes "will be seared out of existence."
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POPSRadical Life Extension and Religious Evolution "Technology will inject competition into religion and force religious authorities to clarify what they mean by immortality." This is important, according to Cole-Turner because "there is currently a lot of evasiveness about what immortality means."
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POPSBioBricks -The New Science of Synthetic Life This is everything science education ever wanted to be, and it's been achieved without any cartoon characters or horribly unconvincing "Science Rules!" posters. The simple fact is that science does kick ass - you don't need to wrap it up in PR goodness and pretend it's something else
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POPSDon't Forget to Back Up Your Brain We rely on our hard drives for saving our music, photographs, e-mails and videos — so perhaps life-logging software and memory prosthetics are simply the next stage in the evolution of our relationship to the computer.
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