Blogs about: Jamais Cascio

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Flying blind

thenextwavefutures wrote 7 months ago: The economic case for Heathrow’s Third Runway doesn’t add up. John Maynard Keynes said, … more →

Tags: Economics, Politics, Aviation, legacy futures, ann pettifor, Heathrow, chris goodall, New Economics Foundation, carbon commentary

Seeing Like A Facebook

Adam wrote 7 months ago: The insistence on a single, unique, legal identity by Facebook and Google continues a historical pat … more →

Tags: Post, social network, Anarchy, James C. Scott, facebook, Google, twitter, patrick mckenzie, Ian Bogost

What the future learns from the past1 comment

thenextwavefutures wrote 2 years ago: One of the best workshops I’ve run in the past eighteen months was with a group of museum cura … more →

Tags: Future, Reports, History, Museums, Sohail Inayatullah, guernica, The past..., Curation

Jamais Cascio on Tools for a Better World

jenneralizations wrote 2 years ago: My second TED subtitle translation is now public!  Fast talkers are difficult for interpreters AND t … more →

Tags: translation, TeD

What About the Next One Mr Hawking? 1 comment

celticlion wrote 2 years ago: The news today is covering Stephen Hawking saying God did not create the Universe, check out William … more →

Tags: News and Views, Economics, Ecology, planetary management, Stephen Hawking, william crawley, Open The Future

Self-kicking robot chair1 comment

Adam wrote 2 years ago: If a key principle of robot ethics is not kicking the robot, what if the robot is designed to kick i … more →

Tags: Post, robot ethics, Max Dean, Raffaello D'Andrea, Matt Donovan, Greg Smith

Don't Club The Cute Baby Robot To Death2 comments

Adam wrote 2 years ago: Amy Harmon at the NYT has a good overview of a generation of robots specifically designed to trigger … more →

Tags: Post, Amy Harmon, robot ethics, Paro, Mencius, Peter Singer, 孟子

You too can forecast the future

Allen Bingham wrote 3 years ago: Jamais Cascio, teacher and lecturer, blogs at www.openthefuture.com and helps people think about how … more →

Tags: Culture, Futuring, Strategic Planning

You-Plus5 comments

Bloom wrote 3 years ago: 27 August 2009 The Atlantic Monthly is nurturing a good debate about whether the Internet age is tra … more →

Tags: the writing life, Country Life, Religion, analogians anonymous, media, e-reading, The Atlantic, Nicholas Carr, Wendell Berry

My need for a "focus assistant."

Paul Lomio wrote 3 years ago: Can technology offer us “continuous augmented awareness?” An earlier post here, commenti … more →

Tags: Tools, search tools, Factual Research, Web 2.0, Current Awareness, Information Overload, social networking, research process, twitter

The noise of a past future1 comment

thenextwavefutures wrote 3 years ago: When I was a kid in the late 1960s, the hovercraft and Concorde were trumpeted as the great British … more →

Tags: Future, technology, Aviation, Charlie Stross, concorde, Hovercraft, legacy futures, Future Savvy

Futuresonic, Day 1 - Alien Music, Hacking the Earth1 comment

trippenbach wrote 4 years ago: Tonight I’m in Manchester for the Social Technology Summit, part of the Futuresonic festival. … more →

Tags: Reviewing, Social Media, Conference, futuresonic09, Social Technology

From punctuated futures to permafuture7 comments

moleitau wrote 4 years ago: At the Long Now London meeting yesterday (my rough notes here) I asked Stuart Candy a question about … more →

Tags: Sufficiently-Advanced Lifestyle, long now, climate change, Future, etech09, stuartcandy

Joe Jackson and Jamais Cascio Vs The Collapsitarians6 comments

moleitau wrote 4 years ago: On the (27 hour) plane ride back from New Zealand, I watched a lot of movies, some unremarkable … more →

Tags: City magic, Culture, Fine nonsense, Late Capitalism, Mind Gangsters, Sufficiently-Advanced Lifestyle, Joe Jackson

Hacking The Earth

moleitau wrote 4 years ago: The Book Arrives!, originally uploaded by Jamais Cascio. Futurist and all-round-smart-cookie Jamais … more →

Tags: Books, Humanity, Mind Gangsters, Sufficiently Advanced Technology, Sufficiently-Advanced Lifestyle, climate change, Earth

WWO games, the next generation

WriTerGuy wrote 4 years ago: The World Without Oil idea of using an “alternate reality” to help us grapple with real- … more →

Tags: apocalypse, future history, Crowd-sourced, Game design, world without oil, Jane McGonigal, Superstruct, Earth 2100, scorched


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