uncertaintimes: The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12 foot reptiloids from […]
Read moreThe following speech by Karl Schroeder is an excellent summation of the future we’ve been documenting here, the world that lies just around the corner:
Read more "Karl Schroeder on ‘Rewilding’"Want to jump 6 feet in the air or run extra fast? Then get into powerbocking with a pair of these jumping stilts:
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Powerbocking with jumping stilts
Read more "Powerbocking with jumping stilts"Imagine an alternate present where the space shuttle hadn’t been such a disaster and the Cold War hadn’t been sole the driver for the space program. Where the dreams of the sixties came true, and the fears of the seventies were never realised. Where the whole Earth is powered by clean energy and humanity has […]
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Neurosky’s mind control headset, the aptly named MindSet, is now available for purchase.
I had the chance to see an early version of these in action at the Tokyo Game Show last year,…
Neurosky’s MindSet is now available
Read more "Neurosky’s MindSet is now available"Read morePunk was fun, but No Future isn’t interesting. You can’t deny the future. My favourite line from the fine piece of postmodernism that is DEADWOOD is “You do not fuck the future, sir. The future fucks you.” No Future is fear of the future, inability to cope with the future, the inability to desire — desire was a key postpunk word, as in the politics of desire, the philosophy of desire — and is ultimately fuckless. And no-one wants a fuckless future.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 