We used to be such optimists. Technology would bring us a world of wealth in harmony with the environment, and even bring us new worlds. The Internet would erase national boundaries, replace ...

While met with broadly positive responses from US viewers, Chinese audiences took a much less ... The analogy extends beyond just a colonialist reading: the books also raise the “dark forest ...

But if there are other civilizations out there, surely we expect many of them to have a head start on us—and so could ... This is the dark forest hypothesis, and it’s the core idea ...

Liu’s dark forest theory is also sufficiently plausible to have reinforced a trend in the scientific discussion in the west – away from ... This is a text which tells us that bugs can be ...

However, no matter how readers understand it, I am happy that I have readers in the West," he says. In addition, he says writers from the golden age of British and US science fiction influenced ...

If one of them waves hello, then that Dark Forest will get a brightly lit campfire for us to see. But technically anything is possible considering we don’t have any evidence for ETIs to begin with.

It could be that we simply haven't been looking long enough, nor emitting our own traceable signatures for aliens to find us yet ... end of the spectrum falls Dark Forest Theory, a piece of ...