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In The New Camelot, Frank White explorers the nature of the Camelot myth and how it relates to the modern day space program. This leads to a surprising insight into how humanity's future in the stars may unfold.

More than 30 years ago, Frank White coined the term "overview effect", to describe the cognitive shift in awareness that results from the experience of viewing Earth from orbit or the moon. He found, that with great consistency, this experience profoundly affects space travelers' worldviews - their perceptions of themselves and our planet and our understanding of the future. White found that astronauts know from direct experience what the rest of us know only intellectually: We live on a planet that is like a natural spaceship moving through the universe.

Each story in this new collection offers a delightful and original reimagining of the incomparable Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman – seeing them journey to the horse races in Paris, solve puzzles at a wartime Bletchley Park, and even transported forward in time to the year 2025. JEEVES AGAIN is a joyful celebration of Wodehouse as a much-beloved British literary icon – as well as a timely and entertaining reminder of the lasting impact of his characters on a whole new generation of readers and writers.

A podcast by Frank White, author of The Overview Effect: Space Exploration & Human Evolution in which we discuss all-things space, space industry, human and technological evolution looking forward on our development as a species.

Although there may well be one objective and real universe, most of us can only see the world from our own point of view, and that might be radically different from every other point of view. In this audiobook, we explore the points of view of very different observers: A woman whose husband believes she is an android, a conspiracy analyst, an angel, an astronaut, and doctors faced with difficult moral dilemmas. Are these stories connected in some way? Is there a pattern? Listen to Points of View and find out!

By the author of The Overview Effect, a compelling look at what the future might hold under a new American Revolution. A band of young outlaws/revolutionaries known as the Barrah Gang struggles to survive in an America that is undergoing violent and revolutionary change. They are college kids for the most part, dedicated to peaceful change but forced to fight for their lives against adversaries like the Vets and with uneasy allies like the Guevaras.

Part 1 of the autobiography of Rhodes Scholar, space philosopher, and author of The Overview Effect, Frank White.

Podcast that provides insight, opinions, recommendations, inspiration, and dope Hip-Hop Selections. We will talk about Black initiatives, Black Liberation, Black Millennial Parenting, Regulating emotions, The Education system, the Judicial system, Early Parenting, Current events, and so much more. The intent of this podcast is to To enlighten our people to ideas, topics, music, and entertainment pertaining to their growth and liberation, while simultaneously putting a spotlight on black creatives, entrepreneurs, influencers, and leaders in our community.

For the past decade or more, experts in artificial intelligence (AI) have been concerned with the advent of "the Singularity", that moment when machine intelligence equals and then rapidly surpasses human capabilities. In the first volume of his book on this topic, Frank White argues that a version of the Singularity may have already taken place (the Neosingularity). While we have been looking at the future, we have perhaps ignored the need to make AI policy in the present.

This is an exploration of a classic description of the "Zen mind". It ranges far afield into space exploration and early Christianity but comes back to the simple Zen reality that "the Great Way is not difficult for those with no preferences".

As a follow-up to the seminal work, The Overview Effect, Frank White explores life's destiny in the universe and a compelling new hypothesis.