Category Archives: The Future!!

Bruce Sterling Will Now Tell Your Fortune

Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Keith

If yo aren’t already, go read Bruce Sterling’s annual new years future cast, State of the World 2012. A taste: FUTURE CHANGE AS SEEN BY THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 1. Continue trend of seize the planet’s physical means of … Continue reading →

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The Second Most Deadliest Game

Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 by Keith

Apparently Mark Zuckerburg and his richer-than-thou pals have taken up killing animals as a hobby. It would be one thing if the rich young elites had taken up the sport of kings and rode out on horseback to hunt stag … Continue reading →

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Haunted by the Future

Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Keith

In the first of a 7 part series on the future, James Birdle talks about Hauntology: Hauntology, already old, is about six months away from becoming the title of a column in a Sunday supplement magazine; of going the way … Continue reading →

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Ozymandius Jr.

Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 by Keith

Is this our future?: Dubai has been built very fast. The plan was money. The architect was money. The designer was money and the builder was money. And if you ever wondered what money would look like if it were … Continue reading →

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Number 1: Stop Eating Patato Chips

Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Keith

Over at io9, Annalee Newitz has a grand little editorial taking the piss out of the Singularity: It’s not that we couldn’t anticipate these problems, and even generate some Plan B ideas for dealing with them. But it’s hard to … Continue reading →

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Brain Spill

Posted on Sunday, October 4, 2009 by Keith

Here’s a bunch of links to stuff. I’m dumping them here, so I know where to find it all later. It doesn’t all fit together in any sort of meaningful way, unless it does. Buddha Machine – a little box … Continue reading →

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Cybermen with Italian Accents

Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2009 by Keith

Charlie Stross has found an odd turn of events in Italian Politics: …transhumanism is going to influence the next century because, unless we are very unlucky indeed, the biotechnology, nanotechnology, and telecommunications industries are going to deliver goods that combine … Continue reading →

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Happy Lunar Landing Day!

Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 by Keith

40 years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. Think about that over the next few days, while you wondering what to do with this world we inherited, that sometimes seems so broken and wrong. We can do extraordinary things … Continue reading →

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Google Was A Racecar Driver

Posted on Thursday, July 9, 2009 by Keith

Douglas Rushkoff has an interesting little piece up about Google’s new Chrome Operating System: Although Google Apps alone may not have convinced the public of the benefits of cloud computing, the introduction of $100 and $200 “netbooks” like the Asus … Continue reading →

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My Dinner With Roku

Posted on Monday, July 6, 2009 by Keith

For about a month now, Elvira and I have been using the Roku to watch movies and TV shows from our Netflix account. In that time, we’ve only had two minor incidents where the quality dropped, and even then, it … Continue reading →

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