July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... - someone I will never know or meet - will be the judge of whether we have succeeded or not. About the author Frank White (frankwhiteauthor.com ) is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Rhodes Scholar...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
... if we don’t maintain it in good order it will cease to function. Even if you’ve never read the works of Buckminster Fuller or Frank White, these ideas become immediately apparent as you take in the view of Earth from space. So, I ask you to consider...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
...deepening spiritual malaise, from a new age of darkness”. Frank White, author of The Overview Effect, describes the revelational ...and new age of space-provoked enlightenment described by Frank White, also expressing as a function of Munod’s practical ...
26 February 2018
Why do we go into space?
... opening of the space environment to humanity. Founded by well-known space leaders Dylan Taylor, Rick Tumlinson, and Frank White, 2211 is designed to encourage conversations about the “Why?” of the human expansion beyond the Earth. The name...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... polluting impact of our civilisation? This life-changing glimpse of cosmic reality was christened the ‘Overview Effect’ by Frank White in his 1987 book of that title. He quotes from several astronauts and cosmonauts who experienced similar feelings...
October 2026
Winning the Space Race at home
...’s logo is partly inspired by the phenomenon known as the Overview Effect, a term coined by space philosopher and writer Frank White, and partly by the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photograph of Earth taken by Voyager 1 space probe from about six...
