Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! When my real job is to speculate entertainingly... not necessarily to be right!
http://www.davidbrin.com
David Brin
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Exactly as predicted in both EARTH and EXISTENCE. The "E" in EU gets redefined as "Earth." Today's EU is not my favorite model for Terran Government. But it might do.
www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/f...
A reminder: the GOP is now entirely about obesance to Trump who bows before Putin, Xi and the Saudis. And his ego and those who hold the kompromat.
Expand and look. And use these pics. A few confeds can still be swayed.
Speaking of pests and predictions. "It's mosquito season, and one engineer built an AI-guided laser that tracks the little bloodsuckers and zaps them out of midair." EXACTLY as predicted in EARTH (1990).
www.techspot.com/news/112601-...
Today only (and alas only on Kindle) BRIGHTNESS REEF e-book is only $2.99
www.amazon.com/dp/B091YM5NH...
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said the European Union needs to expand to project power on the global stage.
Sarah Paine is one of the most sensible humans alive, when it comes to geopolitics. And history. And national conflicts. And the slim paths toward survival.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpEl...
David Brin
Huh. Well I guess the "CIA raid" of her office (if that referred to anything, even vaguely) had nothing to do with "JFK files" or UFOs and far more likely the strings leading from her to puppeteers in the city that rebellious Russian soldiers marched to in 1917.
www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/t...
Weekend posting starts re 'disclosure' then moves on to advances in science and spaaaaace!
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/05/amid...
Marvelous! "The Late Show" signs off with two powerful musical performances beginning with the quartet of Stephen Colbert, Louis Cato, Jon Batiste and Elvis Costello then are joined by Paul McCartney for a once-in-a-lifetime rendition of The Beatles' "Hello Goodbye."
youtu.be/zG0HFw0edXY
We watched the incredible new film NUREMBERG. Very dramatic, fascinating and informative, A fine partner to JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG, the old Spencer Tracy and Burt Lancaster classic. Rami Malek's warning at the end is what we need as we fight similar demons today.
www.netflix.com/title/82700085
The foundation of the system is its visual model, which Cheng trained on a custom mosquito dataset. To do that, he relied on a DSLR camera with...
See where this is likely to go in a few years, in my sci-fi extrapolations of Aiware... immersive augmented reality... In my novel EXISTENCE. Have a glimpse here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzr-... <== (Your best 3 minutes today ;-)
www.dezeen.com/2026/05/20/g...
Brightness Reef (The Uplift Saga Book 4) - Kindle edition by Brin, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highli...