Blogs about Futures
13 blogs about Futures.
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be the future
“make it better don't give up.” By josh. 🇺🇸Updated
the right stuff photo caption: a concert in an arena. the stage is lit up in funky red shapes. hundreds of people in the audience are dancing along to the music. think of all the data we could …
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Bryan Alexander
“Futurist, educator, speaker, writer.” 🇺🇸Updated
Imagining the climate crisis: notes on Extrapolations How can we imagine the climate crisis in its full complexity, menace, and possibility? Answering this question is what climate fiction (never call it “cli-fi”) attempts to do. I’ve been exploring the field (some examples …
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Future | Understand the Future and How to Build It
“Future explores how technology is transforming our world—from crypto and biology to gaming and social networks.” 🇺🇸Updated
Last chance to preorder the "50 Years" book! If you missed the Kickstarter this summer, I successfully crowdfunded a print run for a beautiful print and digital edition of 50 Years of Text Games. I’m getting ready to finalize the print run with …
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Hinesight....for Foresight | Blog
“Apply foresight to help organisations make more creative, innovative, and forward-looking decisions.” By Andy Hines. 🇺🇸Updated
Emerging into After Capitalism I’ve frequently run into the quip that it is easier to imagine end of the world than the end of capitalism. It’s not going to be easy! Certainly, not as simple as flipping a switch …
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It’s here: SG 2023: Images of the Future AGENDA What purposes do images of the future serve? How are images of the future most effectively communicated? How are images of the future constructed? Next month, the students, staff, alumni, and friends of the Houston …
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Jim Caroll - Blog
“Futurist, Author, Innovation Expert & Keynote Speaker!” By Jim Carroll. 🇨🇦Updated
Artificial intelligence. A.I. ChatGPT. Stable Diffusion – The Promise and Peril of Our Fast Future (LONG POST!) The advances in AI this year have been staggering and impressive. Can you ever remember when a new technology burst onto the scene with such wild speed? I can – when the World Wide Web …
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Journal of Futures Studies * Perspectives Archives
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Disrupting Identity: Applying CLA to the Ongoing Digitization of the Self By Tracey Follows Is Identity the Issue of Our Age? How am I authenticated? What does my biology have in store for me? How can I explore alternative personas in a virtual game? Where does …
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Lifeboat Foundation News Blog
“Has tens of thousands of scientific blog posts!” 🇺🇸Updated
Meet the new giant spider species described as “rare and secretive” A new, giant species of trapdoor spider has been discovered in Queensland, Australia, which researchers are describing as “rare” and “secretive.” The species, Euoplos dignitas, was identified after four years of intensive fieldwork by researchers …
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Long Now - Ideas
“A living archive of long-term thinking.” 🇺🇸Updated
Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz Join us for a thought-provoking conversation between two Hugo award-winning science fiction authors, Becky Chambers and Annalee Newitz. Known for challenging classic science fiction tropes such as war, violence, and colonialism, both authors create vivid …
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Overcoming Bias
“This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.” By Robin Hanson. 🇬🇧Updated
Are Elites Displacing Experts? Peter Turchin has some interesting theories of cycles of empires in history. I’ve puzzled over his suggestion that “elite overproduction” is consistently part of the fall of empires, and that we are seeing it today. …
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The Roots of Progress – Posts
“All blog posts on The Roots of Progress.” By Jason Crawford, et al. 🇺🇸Updated
The epistemic virtue of scope matching Something a little bit different today. I’ll tie it in to progress, I promise. I keep noticing a particular epistemic pitfall (not exactly a “fallacy”), and a corresponding epistemic virtue that avoids it. I want …
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Teach the Future | Blog
“Get inspired by ideas on teaching the future from our global team of volunteers, facilitators, trainers, academics and teachers.” 🇺🇸Updated
AGENDA World Futures Day - Young Voices World Futures Day Young Voices (WFD-YV) is here! Join the 24hours conversation about the future with Young Voices from around the world! The livestream started at 5pm (GMT +13) and will continue until 5pm (GMT …
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The Technium
“Making the Inevitable Obvious.” By Kevin Kelly. 🇺🇸Updated
Cringeworthy in the Future The New York Times asked me (and others) to suggest some things our descendents might be embarrassed about in the future. Things we do now, that might make future generations cringe. Good question! My reply …
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