Frontier Channel

News and commentary about the Great Frontiers

ISS007-E-10807 (21 July 2003) --- This view of Earth's horizon as the sunsets over the Pacific Ocean was taken by an Expedition 7 crewmember onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Anvil tops of thunderclouds are also visible. Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center

Image Credit: ISS007-E-10807 (21 July 2003) – Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center

About Frontier Channel

Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here.

Frontier Channel is now defunct. All the articles can be found here. The podcast, RADIO Frontier Channel, can be found here.

The Frontier Channel website, edited by Richard Leis, provided news and commentary about the “Great Frontiers of cyberspace, outer space, the ocean, and destinations in between.” Frontier Channel frequently covered digital media, planetary science, transhumanism, and emerging or fringe technologies like artificial general intelligence (AGI), the Metaverse, nanotechnology, radical life extension, cybernetics, the Technological Singularity, and mind uploading.

Website Screen Shots

2005

Screen shot of Frontier Channel 2005 design with thin Mars header at top and short news stories under January 2000 Headlines

2006

Screen shot of Frontier Channel 2006 design and landing page with thin Mars header at top.

2008

2008 screen shot of Frontier Channel with faded Mercury background and article about Mercury with sidebar and link on right
2008 screen shot of Frontier Channel redesign concept with textbook page-like design

History

Since the late 1990s the site has undergone a few name change and several redesigns. Frontier Channel was primarily a static HTML news site from 2004 through 2006, with an emphasis on planetary science. Richard also briefly hosted RADIO Frontier Channel, a podcast. During the summer of 2007, he merged Frontier Channel with his Cybernudism transhumanist blog and migrated to WordPress, a content management system.

By December 28, 2008, various pieces had come together to relaunch Frontier Channel with an improved design, including ads, a donation page, better readability, and a new effort to begin updating old entries with minor fixes, new headers, and their original images (lost during the transition to WordPress.) In 2009, Richard retired the Coppermine Photo Gallery software as WordPress made key improvements in media management.

In 2014, he merged Frontier Channel with the blog on his personal website.