Archive for the ‘Futures’ Category
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
The annual State of the World conversation with Bruce Sterling, led by yours truly, is under way. You have to be a member of the WELL to post directly, but nonmembers can send comments and questions to inkwell /at/ well.com. Link
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
An interview with Mac Tonnies, who has the Posthuman Blues, is a good overview of transhumanist thinking.I would argue that we're all "inferior" in the sense that we're ill-adapted to essentially any lifestyle other than the one in which we happened to evolve. (Ask an astronaut.) I don't think any ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
I posted earlier about Mumbai/social media. Svetlana Gladkova says more about Twitter as a source of news and conversation about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Svetlana references an excellent piece by Mathew Ingram, who addresses the question whether Twitter can be trusted as a news source since "messages posted to ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
July 4th, 2009 edition of The New York Times. It's good to have goals.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
At the Texas Community Media Unworkshop last Saturday, I posted several notes to Twitter from a talk by Gary Chapman of the 21st Century Project at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. By popular demand, here's those notes, with some additional material...
Kevin Martin from FCC was at UT [last] week. ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
David Isenberg blogs about white space, a telecom term for unused frequencies in the radio waves portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, here specifically referring to using available digital television spectrum. Google and the New America Foundation had a meeting on white spaces or pervasive connectivity, "open airwaves, open networks." David ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
I'm a zeppelin fan, always wanted to ride one. Looks like the day may come: passenger zeppelins are the wave of the present, popping up in the San Francisco skies. The SF zeppelin tours are pricy ($495/hr), but imagine skies filled with zeppelins a few years out. After all, they're ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
RU Sirius is editing a new Mondo 2000-ish transhumanist webzine calledH+. Download the pdf. From RU's intro: The glory of transhumanism is that it's not just a movement of immortalists, or singularitarians, or advocates of digital democratization, or experimenters in self-enhancing technologies. Transhumanism reminds us that all -- or at ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
I'm not exactly a maker - I don't spend a lot of time building or deconstructing devices or hacking what I've bought. I'm not a regular reader of Make Magazine, though it's edited by my friend and former bOING bOING colleague Mark Frauenfelder, and I've always appreciated his world view... ...
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