Sci-Fi, Technology, and Society | Jacob Wells | Activity https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/members/timemender/activity/ Activity feed for Jacob Wells. Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:03:36 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b14db0a48b790ce267bd1808d802f513 Jacob Wells replied to the topic Saving our Planet is the Thing to Do! in the forum Class Discussion https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/forums/topic/saving-our-planet-is-the-thing-to-do/#post-894 Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:51:05 -0500 That is a good point Jean-Paul. They probably would not be able to replicate and replace every animal in a food chain. Something that popped into my head though is the idea that this journey of theirs is going to take something like 2400 years if I remember correctly. f they could care less about the time the journey takes, then they probably…Read more

]]> 947eae895d6ccc41345739b149718734 Jacob Wells replied to the topic Saving our Planet is the Thing to Do! in the forum Class Discussion https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/forums/topic/saving-our-planet-is-the-thing-to-do/#post-842 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:50:44 -0500 (this is debatable, but I hope I can prove my point) If I had to pick one sci-fi story that gives examples of eco-modernist innovations and ideas, it would be The Wandering Earth. I know how that sounds, it probably doesn’t make much sense but let me explain. The eco-modernist manifesto says that they are trying to save the earth by grouping…Read more

]]> ce131506b490ee6b1e90744c57daae52 Jacob Wells replied to the topic What can we learn from sci-fi? in the forum Class Discussion https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/forums/topic/what-can-we-learn-from-sci-fi/#post-649 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 01:22:22 -0500 This is an interesting and thought-provoking question about sci-fi and society. If I had to choose just one sci-fi story that I think we could learn from to improve society I would choose the Fallout series. I know it may seem cliche but there is something major to be learned from Fallout about nuclear war and it’s consequences. We see with our…Read more

]]> ad7c92826e346f17ae3fe9f5f72980a0 Jacob Wells replied to the topic Critiquing Utopia in the forum Class Discussion https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/forums/topic/critiquing-utopia/?view=all#post-331 Sun, 25 Oct 2020 02:41:43 -0400 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/21/justice-department-google-lawsuit-congress/

This link above leads to a news article regarding the recent announcement of the Department of Justice to pursue a lawsuit against Google and its monopolistic practices. When I wrote my revised article I made it out where the government had been…Read more

]]> 1a4ad73d11db370fdea9164290554103 Jacob Wells replied to the topic Regulation vs Innovation in the forum Class Discussion https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/forums/topic/regulation-vs-innovation/#post-210 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:04:15 -0400 I personally found myself in the middle of the argument on regulation versus innovation. I one hundred percent believe that there needs to be at least some regulations on technology. But we should not go too far with the regulations as that would stagnate our development of technology. Without regulations technology innovation would climb, yet…Read more

]]> ec0dca7ff546953b404314de9a7fe3bf Jacob Wells replied to the topic Avatars are Cool in the forum Class Discussion https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/forums/topic/avatars-are-cool/#post-88 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:57:21 -0400 I like it!

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