2 month ago
philgyford : Rule Forty Two - " Welcome to the Future - Scroll some way through for evaluations of how futurists' predictions turned out. (Although the futurists I know never called them "predictions" because we know they're never 100% correct.) (via Boing Boing)
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2 month ago
philgyford : Superstruct! Play the game, invent the future. | The Institute For The Future - "The world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game." Interesting. There's either a lot more futures stuff around at the moment, or I'm just stumbling across more of it. (via Wonderland)
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3 month ago
philgyford : Foundation for the Future - "Was established with the mission to increase and diffuse knowledge concerning the long-term future of humanity." Less long-term than Long Now is, but perhaps more focused?
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno predict unthinkable futures from 1993 - "it costs half a day's pay to drive your car into the downtown area of a big city"
philgyford : Conceptual Trends and Current Topics - Unthinkable Futures - I like this kind of "thinking the unthinkable" as a way to come up with new ideas about what the future could be. So easy to get stuck thinking about the most likely outcomes otherwise.
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15 month ago
plasticbag : Just watched the 1936 film 'Things to Come' based on HG Well's book - Wow. That was extraordinary. A celebratory song for science and progress that contains some of the most extraordinary and convincing special effects I've ever seen. I'm not kidding. Extraordinary.
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22 month ago
43folders : Paleo-Future - "A look into the future that never was." Candidate for this week's reason why the internet can still be awesome. [via:BB]
Eric Meyer : Paleo-Future - Dad blame it-- as if I needed another feed to read. Just can't resist this one.
Milo Vermeulen : Paleo-Future - A look into the future that never was [via]
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Fiona Romeo has put out a call for ideas around future technologies of surveillance and spying - I've got the Barbelites thinking about this as well. Could be really cool to be involved in this project.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Schulze & Webb articulate some provocative design ideas around the future of meat - Difficult to explain. Sort of brain-expanding and eye-opening while simultaneously quite funny. Makes me simultaneously sort of hungry and slightly queasy. I quite fancy eating a Pink Panther.
deusx : Lab-Grown Meat (Schulze & Webb) - "While at the RCA, Jack took part in a brief run by Tony Dunne on the industrial future of food and lab-grown meat (a staple of the newspaper columns in 2005)."
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31 month ago
philgyford : Has Futurism Failed? - Good long summary of the history of futurism (not the art movement) and the state of the industry now. (via Blackbeltjones)
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38 month ago
jkottke : On the future - Time magazine asks Moby, Malcolm Gladwell, Tim O'Reilly, Clay Shirky, David Brooks, Mark Dery, and Esther Dyson about their views on the future: religion, culture, politics, etc. Gladwell: "If I had to name a single thing that has transformed our life, I
philgyford : TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine -- The Road Ahead - A handful of celebs-in-the-weblog-world talk about the future. (via Kottke)
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38 month ago
philgyford : Fads are so yesterday - Los Angeles Times - On how "coolhunters" are doing. I find the whole trend-spotting-in-order-to-sell-more-stuff thing pretty sickening. (via Boing Boing)
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38 month ago
philgyford : Wired News: The Future Needs Futurists - On the need for professionalising futurism. (via Annie)
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