Superfuture :: home. 20-crucial-terms-every-21st-century. Back in 2007 I put together a list of terms every self-respecting futurist should be familiar with. But now, some seven years later, it's time for an update. I reached out to several futurists, asking them which terms or phrases have emerged or gained relevance since that time. These forward-looking thinkers provided me with some fascinating and provocative suggestions — some familiar to me, others completely new, and some a refinement of earlier conceptions. Here are their submissions, including a few of my own. 1. Folks are rightfully worried about surveillance powers that expand every day. Brin says that reciprocal vision and supervision will be hard to enact and establish, but that it has one advantage over "don't look at us" laws, namely that it actually has a chance of working. 2. 3. Futurist and scifi novelist Ramez Naam says we should be aware of the potential for "technological unemployment.
" 4. In the future, people won't be confined to their meatspace bodies. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. We Come from the Future. BLDGBLOG. Benn Jordan | Blaugh. It’s Getting Better? If you read any copyright related interview I did in the last decade, I probably sounded akin to a doomsday prophet. Not that I shouldn’t have.
RIAA were suing soccer moms for hundreds of thousands of dollars, Net Neutrality was about to be abolished, SOPA was gaining enough momentum to where we were all positive it would be passed, iTunes was monopolizing the digital music market, and at the bottom of it all, musicians were going broke with no light at the end of the tunnel. Most of these issues are still around, but becoming more and more neutered. RIAA is slowly figuring out that getting less than 10% of their investment back in mass litigation probably isn’t sustainable or favorable for share holders.
With a little backroom pressure from Congress, the FCC, just this week, promised us that Net Neutrality will indeed be back to kick the likes of Comcast and Verizon in the balls. “-How can you hire a musician to come to your house on a Saturday night? Spotify. 1. Programmes | Click. Drexciya Research Lab. De Toekomst Hervonden. Hard//hoofd. Frnkfrt.net | pop.media.cultuur.
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