..New Collaboration Between Ghost in the Shell Creator and Animators Announced..

from Ain’t It Cool News New Collaboration Between Ghost in the Shell Creator and Animators Announced OVERVIEW 2061 AD. Fifty years have passed since mankind developed the Network society. It was anticipated that this new infrastructure would realize a utopia where people connected with each other at the level of consciousness. However, new social problems […]

Stross reads from Halting State (plus Q’n’A)

Charlie does a longish reading from Halting State: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-1670032014558458068&hl=en Highlights: First few mins: he talks about how technology seamless weaves itself into society as it develops ~44 mins: the timing of such a novel. that four years ago noone would have got it at all and in two years time it’ll be blaze – mundane […]

Why Doesn’t Alt Culture Exist?

Coilhouse responds to Herr Ellis’s comments on the death of Alt Culture: Why Doesn’t Alt Culture Exist? …We live an era that promises us a free flow of information, an era that, if you look just a little deeper, constantly exposes the ways in which facts can be covered up, in which history can be […]

Projected reality UserInterface concept video

Here’s a crazy proof-of-concept video showing what one future of UserInterface’s might be: via — note, that’s 2006 technology! Now, substitute the hand-held projector for glasses (or contacts!) and the pen for say a couple of rings on your finger and we’re approaching some real magic! Compare this crazy vision, vs the MSFT next-gen platform.

..The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis (SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 2007)..

from (NSFW) SuicideGirls The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis … One of the few people in music who seem to me to be really leaning into the future right now is Burial, the reclusive lofi dubstep wizard whose work conjures fantastic images of a drowned London and haunted electronics. He’s doing his bit to save […]

NaNoWriMo ’07

So I just signed up. Gotta take the plunge sometime I guess. And, this way I’ve got an excuse if it’s crap 😉 Gotta particular idea / setting I’ve been mulling around in my head for a while (it’s a Mudane SF / Young Adult novel that may be slightly parallel to a certain other […]

..William Gibson Hates Futurists..

from tyeebooks.ca William Gibson Hates Futurists The night they started to broadcast television in New York, New York ceased to be what it had been before. Because everyone stayed home to watch television. … Virtual reality was one of our most recent experiences of a future that didn’t happen. The one before that would have […]

the need for peer2peer transport

So it’s a fact that Melbourne’s Public Transport system is pretty much broken. With an increase of something like 20% of users. And the Vic Govt’s solution is to get new trains in 2009. That’s two years away! Yet it seems to me that we could solve this transport problem by just more efficiently using […]

..From The Information Age To The Connected Age..

from GigaOM … Microsoft (Information Age) vs. Google (Connected Age) Microsoft (MSFT) exemplifies the Information Age. It uses step-by-step, top-down controlled project management methods to build monolithic intangible goods desktop and client/server software largely from scratch. It uses money as currency, monetizing knowledge products using licensing fees and strict control of software copying. […]

the dreamy work of Sil van der Woerd

via Ectoplasmosis I’ve discovered the work of Sil van der Woerd. Can’t wait to see what he does next…

The Committee to Nuke Elysium

we're gonna blow up your space thing later