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Bookmark Digital legacy: Archaeology of the future
The historians of 2061 will want to study the birth of the world wide web. How on earth will they know where to start? Today, historians have to piece together the…

May 3 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future
A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

March 30 2011, 2:30am | Comments
Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments
Bookmark R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay
R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay has been making the rounds lately and it sparked a healthy amount of curiosity and note-taking on my part that I felt I wanted to share…

March 15 2011, 7:59am | Comments
Bookmark Humans, Version 3.0
This view of the future of humankind is grounded in an appreciation of the biologically innate powers bestowed upon us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. This deep respect…

March 5 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark Open Media (lecture series schedule)
The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge for…

February 16 2011, 6:54am | Comments
Tumblr Back to the Future : Irina Werning

February 14 2011, 12:17pm | Comments
Bookmark The Temporary Autonomous Zone
I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only…

January 22 2011, 5:43am | Comments
Bookmark Programmed for Love: The Unsettling Future of Robotics
Imagine standing in front of a robot, gazing into its wide, plastic eyes, and falling in love. Your heart revs up, and you hope this Other—this humanoid machine—turns your way again,…

January 18 2011, 3:16am | Comments
Bookmark The Novel is not under threat from technology
One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The Island…

January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments
Bookmark When new narratives meet old brains
We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating "We are our narratives"…

November 25 2010, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark Myths of a Near Future: Simon Sellars, Bruce Sterling and V. Vale…
Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard. Held…

November 15 2010, 2:31am | Comments
Bookmark UBUWeb Sound - DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century
"On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of…

November 6 2010, 6:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Conflict or Cooperation?
Among the theorists who jumped into the market for models of the future, three stood out: Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer. Each made a splash with a controversial article,…

November 5 2010, 5:54am | Comments
Bookmark 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” both…

November 1 2010, 3:42am | Comments
Bookmark Night Waves: Is the Book Dead?
Philip Dodd goes to one of Britain's largest second hand bookshops and is joined by a panel of publishers, authors and an audience of readers for a public debate that tackles…

October 21 2010, 3:10am | Comments
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September 30 2010, 4:26pm | Comments
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September 22 2010, 3:08am | Comments
Bookmark Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution
In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments
Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?
Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments
Bookmark Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book
In 2004, Bob Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, with the goal of finding new models for publishing as it moved from the page to the screen,…

September 8 2010, 3:37am | Comments
Tumblr SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios

September 4 2010, 8:18am | Comments
Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments
Bookmark Adam Curtis on 'Mad Men'
The widespread fascination with the Mad Men series is far more than just simple nostalgia. It is about how we feel about ourselves and our society today. In Mad Men we…

August 31 2010, 3:55pm | Comments
Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments
Bookmark The Web Means the End of Forgetting
When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of…

July 25 2010, 7:15am | Comments
Bookmark Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard
Writers have long been fascinated by machinery – what it gives and what it takes away. Tom McCarthy, whose experimental work has been hailed as the future of fiction, charts literature's…

July 25 2010, 7:13am | Comments
Bookmark Analogue Inception
The structure of the film is that of a heist movie, but if the film were to be slotted into a genre, that genre would have to be science fiction. Personally,…

July 18 2010, 6:07am | Comments
Bookmark Goodbye to the Graphosphere
For half a millennium, across continents and civilizations, the human readership did almost nothing but grow and consolidate itself. Constantly more people in more and more places could read, and could…

July 17 2010, 12:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Genetic Future: How much data is a human genome? It depends how…
The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much hard…

June 29 2010, 8:33am | Comments
Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

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