admin | Greg Klerkx

The Immortals’ Club

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 08:19:29 +0000

I’ve come close more than once to writing a book about the sociology and science behind radical life extension, aka living forever. This and the Better Humans essay were attempts to work through some of the key ideas and players.

New Scientist

Fast-track to orbit

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:39:59 +0000

You take the high road…but I’ll save millions getting into space.

New Scientist

American booty: The new space prize

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:34:37 +0000

Bigger than the X-Prize, but only if you’re American.

New Scientist

Apollo special

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:24:43 +0000

Astronaut or taikonaut: whose footprints will be next on the moon?

New Scientist

Hay Festival

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:17:39 +0000

If you click here, you can listen to a podcast of my talk on Lost in Space at the Hay Festival. If you listen very closely, you’ll occasionally hear my daughter, then two years old, calling out, ‘Daddy’. Always good to have at least one fan in the audience…

Microsoft Research Video

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:48:22 +0000

A video of a talk to Microsoft Research in Seattle, on Lost in Space and SETI – useful as a portal to my lost youth if nothing else!

Lost in Space: Senate’s ‘essential reading’!

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:40:46 +0000

Something fun: my book being waved before a Senate sub-committee on the future of human spaceflight and described as ‘essential reading’: it’s around time mark 2:28.

Kerouac’s On The Road Scroll

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:37:39 +0000

Just because I saw this recently at the BL and was surprised at what a powerful effect it had on me. Something about literary artefacts, their physicality, how that feels in an age where literature is becoming increasingly untouchable in a literal sense.

Via University of Texas

Interview with Greg Klerkx

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:32:41 +0000

Universe Today

How to fix NASA

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:30:37 +0000

Newsweek interview