Welcome to the Future Nauseous. Both science fiction and futurism seem to miss an important piece of how the future actually turns into the present. They fail to capture the way we don’t seem to notice when the future actually arrives. Sure, we can all see the small clues all around us: cellphones, laptops, Facebook, Prius cars on the street. Yet, somehow, the future always seems like something that is going to happen rather than something that is happening; future perfect rather than present-continuous. Even the nearest of near-term science fiction seems to evolve at some fixed receding-horizon distance from the present. The Futurist Cookbook: 11 Rules for a Perfect Meal and an Anti-Pasta Manifesto circa 1932. By Maria Popova Optimism at the table, or why the dark void of the soul can’t be stuffed with spaghetti.
Given my voracious appetite for unusual cookbooks — especially ones at the intersection of food and the arts, including little-known gems from the likes of Andy Warhol, Liberace, Lewis Carroll, and Alice B. Toklas — I was delighted to discover The Futurist Cookbook (public library; AbeBooks) by Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, originally published in 1932 and reprinted in 1989, translated into English by Suzanne Brill.
Strategic Interaction & Feedback Tools - Events. Happy Birthday, Futurists! A Movement Turns 104. If you see any futurists today, don’t forget to wish them a happy anniversary.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. On the web, Germans win at looking ahead. U.
WARWICK / UCL (UK) — Millions of Google searches from 2012 reveal that Germany looked to the future online more than any other country, say researchers. The UK, which held the number one spot in 2011, has been knocked off its perch as the most forward-looking country and is ranked fourth in 2012. A focus on upcoming general elections, scheduled for this year, may drive Germany’s rise up the charts in 2012. (Credit: U. On the web, Germans win at looking ahead. The Great Future Debate and the Struggle for the World.
E. B. White on the Role and Responsibility of the Writer. By Maria Popova “Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.”
Today, I’m headed to Columbia to take part in a symposium on the future of journalism — a subject that feels at once on some great cusp and under the weight of a myriad conflicting pressures. It prompted me to revisit one of my all-time favorite Paris Review interviews, a 1969 conversation, in which the great George Plimpton and sidekick Frank H. Crowther interview E. B. Docs/The Predicament of Mankind.pdf. Same As It Ever Was. The Baloney Detection Kit: A 10-Point Checklist for Science Literacy. Cities of You - Online Gallery. TrendsWatch. History of WFSF. Tuesday, 11 March 2008 10:11 WFSF The World Futures Studies Federation emerged from the ideas and pioneering work of such persons as Igor Bestuzhev-Lada (Russia), Bertrand de Jouvenel (France, 1903-1987), Johan Galtung (Norway), Robert Jungk (Austria 1913-1994), John McHale (UK/USA, 1922-1978) and others who in the 1960s conceived of the concept of futures studies at the global level.
This resulted in the organization of the first International Futures Research Conference in Oslo, Norway, in September 1967, for which Mankind 2000 was responsible in cooperation with the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and the Institut für Zukunftsfragen. A Continuing Committee was created, with headquarters in Paris. Bruce McCall Illustrates the Future That Wasn't. The Origins of Futurism. Pentti Malaska < Yhteystiedot < Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskus < Erillislaitokset < Yksiköt < Turun kauppakorkeakoulu. How Not to Be a Clever Writer.
I think you're somewhat misunderstanding what I'm saying here.
I'm not saying "No risk or experimentation. " I'm saying those things are tools — use them to tell the story you want to tell, don't just use them because you want to use them. My interpretation of the article is that it's a sort of 'How not to be JJ Abrams'. As much as I love the majority of what I've seen of his stuff, he does seem to try too hard to be clever a LOT of the time. I love the complex plotting of Lost, but it gets convoluted and drops a lot of interesting ideas at times, and the bracelet thing at the end of Super 8 was cringeworthingly heavy-handed.
Sometimes with this kind of cleverness, it's best to accept you don't know how to make it work in this scenario. And I think you're misunderstanding me a little. :) No, you're not saying it, but your piece does suggest particular directions over others. Delivering Tomorrow - Logistics 2050. The Shape of Things to Come: NIST Probes the Promise of Nanomanufacturing Using DNA Origami. In recent years, scientists have begun to harness DNA’s powerful molecular machinery to build artificial structures at the nanoscale using the natural ability of pairs of DNA molecules to assemble into complex structures.
Such “DNA origami,” first developed at the California Institute of Technology,* could provide a means of assembling complex nanostructures such as semiconductor devices, sensors and drug delivery systems, from the bottom up. While most researchers in the field are working to demonstrate what’s possible, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are seeking to determine what’s practical. Beyond Credit Cards: Q&A with Dan Schulman of American Express. Special forces: Dan Schulman, a former mobile phone company executive, heads American Express’ efforts to break into online payments and virtual currencies.
American Express started out in the 19th Century delivering money by horseback. It issued the first widely accepted plastic charge card in 1959, and has more or less stayed the course since. But an expected global boom in payments made on mobile phones and tablets—their dollar value will surge 76 percent to $86 billion in 2012, Gartner predicts—now leaves the third-largest U.S. credit card issuer preparing for a future without plastic. Enter Serve, a prepaid, reloadable spending account Amex launched last March. Serve is partly an Internet service and partly a debit card whose minimalist design is missing the familiar gladiator logo. If it is successful, the card design won’t matter. Why Aereo Is Not Zediva, From A to Z. As Aereo fights for its life against the TV networks, it’s tempting to liken it to Zediva, the last company who fought the content industry and lost.
Aereo rents you an antenna to stream broadcast TV over the internet; before it was shut down by Hollywood, Zediva rented you a DVD player to stream movies over the internet. Both models rely on quixotic approaches to deliver copyrighted content without the consent of the copyright holder, for profit. Both add a priceless dimension of convenience despite impediments of the marketplace that consumers, to the extent they are aware of them, find ridiculous. And both seem metaphysically doomed to failure. Wired.com. Himalaya Water Tower. First Place 2012 Skyscraper Competition Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao, Dongbai Song China.
Lytro: Shooting Matrix-Style 'Bullet Time' Video Isn't Far Away. The Lytro camera, which launched this past Wednesday, takes photos that the user can refocus after the fact. It's a cool trick — and you can experience it via the photo below — but it's really just scratching the surface of what the technology behind the camera can do. Soon users will be able to create 3D effects and even, with upgraded equipment, shoot slow-motion wraparound video like the kind seen in the Matrix movies. The Lytro creates its "living pictures" by capturing the entire light field, not just the color and intensity of light but also the direction of individual rays. The technology behind putting light-field capture into a small camera was about a decade in the making, based on research done by the company's CEO, Ren Ng, as a graduate student at Stanford.
Bruce Sterling on design fictions. Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images I’m in Tempe, Ariz., today for Emerge: Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future, a conference at Arizona State University. The Lab Store. CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination. CONTACT - Speakers. An AU-perspective on the first ever Future Day - creating change. Futurescapes. Research. What people think I do meme – Futurist « Innovaro Foresight Services. World Economic Forum lists top 10 emerging technologies for 2012. The World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies has drawn up a list of the top 10 emerging technologies for 2012 (Image: Shutterstock) Our goal here at Gizmag is to cover innovation and emerging technologies in all fields of human endeavor, and while almost all of the ideas that grace our pages have the potential to enhance some of our lives in one way or another, at the core are those technologies that will have profound implications for everyone on the planet.
For those looking to shape political, business, and academic agendas, predicting how and when these types of technologies will effect us all is critical. Recognizing this, the World Economic Forum's (WEF's) Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies has compiled a list of the top 10 emerging technologies it believes will have the greatest impact on the state of the world in 2012. 1. Source: World Economic Forum Blog About the Author. Developing World: Beyond the Frontiers of Science Fiction. Life.enhasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/The Usborne Book of the Future.pdf. Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here.
A Far Green Country. It is a strange thing to post at such a well-known techy econo-futurist blog. How Do We Get There? Yumemiru app aims to let you control your dreams. The available dreams in Yumemiru include walking through a forest, visiting the beach, flying, becoming rich, and even romances specified for both men and women Image Gallery (5 images) Solve for X.
First Downloaded and 3D Printed Pirate Bay Ship Arrives. For The Pirate Bay team simply copying bits and bytes is not enough. They want you to 'download a car', literally, so with that goal in mind they added a 3D-printing section to their website last month. Cyberflaneur. N. Low Line Creators Have Real Bright Ideas for Sunshine Under Delancey Street - The Low Line. Wednesday, February 1, 2012, by Dave Hogarty <div class="gallery loaded"><a href=" src=" /><a href=" style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;">Click here to view the full photogallery. </a></div></div> Seattle woman “marries” building to protest its demolition. Komonews.com.