..Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future..

from Guardian Unlimited Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe’s drops as fertility falls. “Flashmobs” – groups […]

the honeymoon’s over…

Back in Melbourne as of very early this morn. Of course, the holiday’s always over once you enter the gate for the flight back – suddenly surrounded once again by those ‘stralian accents.. It was a fantastic honeymoon we had in Malaysia.. I’ve thrown some photos up on flickr. Unfortunately, I forgot to pack the […]

the imaginative death of the future

Attention Conservation Notice: This is a long rambling post about what I think The Future means (and doesn’t mean) today. It also has some pics and trailer for the new Disney movie 😉 If we’re living in a science-fictional world, does this mean the future, as a concept, no longer exists? Was the “future” just […]

..’Infomania’ worse than marijuana..

from BBC NEWS ‘Infomania’ worse than marijuana Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed. The study for computing firm Hewlett Packard warned of a rise in “infomania”, with people becoming addicted to email and text messages. Researchers found […]

..Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free..

from Time.com: Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free It might seem very odd to look to a long-dead Russian anarchist for business advice. But Peter Kropotkin‘s big idea–that there are important human motivations beyond what he called “reckless individualism”–is very relevant these days. That’s because one of the most interesting questions in business […]

the sometimes awesome works of Joseph Kahn

My friend Tony sent me a link to the video for Muse‘s Knights of Cydonia today. I couldn’t stop watching it. It’s a mashup of nearly every single genre there is. No wonder they had a competition, giving away posters of the fictional film to those who could spot the references 15 major motion pictures […]

why Industrial solutions won’t fix the problems of Industrialization

from Bruce Sterling’s blog we learn: Technology Review: Billionaire Offers $25 Million to Save Earth! Billionaire Richard Branson is on a tear these days. Last year at Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative meeting in New York, Branson announced that he would spend $3 billion of his Virgin profits to research and develop renewable-energy technologies. Now he […]

quotes from Doom Patrols – part 1

After my post on the SciFi world we live in, I decided to start reading Doom Patrols. I’ve stalled at Chapter 7, but have saved some select quotes to share. from Chapter 2: We used to wonder whether machines could pass the Turing test, and fool an outside observer into thinking they were human. But […]

new works of Sterling and Stross

Continuing with the reading, I decided move out of my retro cyberpunk phase and back into present. Trundling down to magnation I picked up the latest (January) issues of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Asimov’s. I rarely read these magz. In fact I only seek them out when forewarned that they might contain interesting content. […]

reducing the attention expenses

One of my resolutions for 2007 is to try and be more productive with my time and such. Crazy, I know, but there it is. For too long I’ve been cursed by an overflowing inbox, and too many open links in my browser. All crying out for my attention. Too often I’d waste time starring […]

The Committee to Nuke Elysium

we're gonna blow up your space thing later