“As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Using virtual world, a scientist in Japan can conduct an experiment using a special facility in California, watching the entire thing via… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“The scientist’s skin crackled with excitement. “That’s the question that humans always ask—always, always. They want to scoop out the brains of… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Over a century ago, scientists first began to argue that the patent system and scientific data should be opened up. Back then,… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.” — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“It didn’t just boost your concentration. It made you enjoy work. You couldn’t wait to get back to the keyboard, the breadboard, the gesture… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally -… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
