Out of the ethical dilemmas that Science Fiction has explored in the past which ones have been your favourite(s)? Are they still relevant in the same way today?

It seems a bit silly but today’s question is something that I’ve picked away at ocassionaly from time to time since I was a kid….

What would the world be like if Science Fiction authors ran it? If you had to pick one Science Fiction author to run the world, who would you choose?

Today we tackle a subject that has been vexing me more and more later. I’m going to blather on in a moment but first the question….

Do you think the rise of self selecting media channels is going to facilitate more people subscribing to a lot of loony conspiracy theories and consensual realities, or will the net effect be to dispel many such notions?

Today we bring you the first part of another two parter. As before it’s a two parter because it was a question I liked asking…

Out of the ethical dilemmas that Science Fiction has explored in the past which ones have been your favourite(s)? Are they still relevant in the same way today?

The good people over at SFSignal decided to turn the tables on your memetherapists and stick us under the spotlight. They asked all three of us a load of questions and you can read our answers here.

John Leslie is Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph’s Philosophy Department. He’s also associated with the Lifeboat Foundation and has written about and studied cosmology, metaphysics and cosmology.

Yes I continue to blog about my obsessive involvement with the StumbleUpon community. I hope it really takes off as I prefer it to things like MySpace or Livejournal and I’d like to see more people using it, although I realize it doesn’t quite fulfill the same purpose as those sites do.

The real world is a messy place, often defying human comprehension and imagination and almost always requiring that you think rather hard to figure things out. Now a lot of people have been eagerly awaiting Virtual Reality and more recently Altertered Reality or GreaseMonkeyed reality.

We continue our coverage of Science Fiction and Fantasy art with an interview with artist Brian Dow an artist who has recently come to my attention via Pyr’s editor Lou Anders blog Bowing to the Future.

Yesterday we were serious and now we get silly again with the second parter of one of my favourite Brain Parades. That’s right its manky towel wielding time travelling author time again. For those of you who missed out first installment “manky” is British for used, worn out and filthy.