Imagine you've finally gotten your chance to play a giant game of Monopoly where there are 100 players. Imagine you were only able to begin playing once someone left, and the game had been...

When I arrived at work this morning there was a note taped to my control panel which read: The end is nearer now than ever. With every death it comes a little closer. The end...

Despite my efforts, I am not a great person, or even likely a good person. Hopefully, I'm not a bad person, at least not by the standards set by rapists, murderers and thieves. Generally,...

Poof. Vanished. It used to amaze me. Poof. Vanished. It used to excite me — the whole magic of the universe — how there are so many things I'll never understand. Poof. Vanished. Now...

When we married, Joan and I agreed to an open marriage. After several years neither of us had acted on that agreement. It was our belief that sex had nothing to do with love...

Natural disasters are anything but entertaining, from my point of view. I end up with a week's worth of congestion and am always forced to work overtime without pay. I tried to complain last...

Arrays of technologies — from robotics to bioengineering — are beginning to converge, and this convergence is destined to have profound effects on our future. Science and technology have done more to affect culture...