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Instapaper When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
It’s an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. Business models are being transformed, lives are being upended, vast new horizons of possibility opened up.…

April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments
Twitter Links Next What?
Technology is never a neutral tool. It is rather a socio-cultural dimension... Next Nature “refers to the nature produced by humans and their technology.”…

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
Link John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse
There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the…

March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments
Twitter Links Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.
Should sci-fi be less dystopian and more upbeat? What should we expect from science fiction? In a recent Smithsonian article by IO9’s Annalee Newitz,…

March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments
Link How the Internet Gets Inside Us
That the reality of machines can outpace the imagination of magic, and in so short a time, does tend to lend weight to the claim that the technological shifts in…

February 10 2011, 5:18pm | Comments
Link Declaration on the Notion of “The Future”
The International Necronautical Society now entering its eleventh year, the First Committee has recently come under pressure to release, in keeping with the INS’s avant-garde demeanor, some kind of “statement”…

November 1 2010, 3:42am | Comments
Link 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive
This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was…

July 14 2010, 9:05am | Comments
Link Roger Scruton - Gloom merchant
The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends upon a wilful ignorance of history. It also depends upon a wilful ignorance of oneself – a refusal to recognise the extent…

June 12 2010, 9:19am | Comments

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