Here’s Chairman Bruce just a few days ago at the STRP Festival, once more describing our immediate situation and near-future in terms we can then build on and discuss with:
Bruce Sterling @ Symposium Playful Post Digital Culture
Read more "Bruce Sterling @ Symposium Playful Post Digital Culture"Behold the awesome storms of Saturn, shown here by NASA in false-colour rendering.
The head of the storm is beyond the horizon in this view. Saturn’s atmosphere and its rings…
heavy weather, it’s not just for Terra
Read more "heavy weather, it’s not just for Terra"These four photos aren’t from a Worth1000 competition, they’re just some of the striking images of Thailands ongoing, slow-moving flood hitting Bangkok.
See if you…
Read more "Bangkok’s drownening (PIX)"Now this is WAY better than MSFT’s CorporateFuturist video:
Click here to view the embedded video.
via @th0ma5 | zenbullets
Read more "MSFT’s hand-held AR demo"Here’s your menu for today’s FuturePresent news round-up:
Click here to view the embedded video.
via GeekWire who give this nice description:
As the new video opens, special eyeglasses translate audio into English in real-time for a business traveler in Johannesburg. A thin screen on a car window highlights a passing building to show where her meeting will be the next day, based on information from her calendar. Office workers gesture effortlessly to control and reroute text and charts as the screens around them morph and pulse with new information.
FuturePresent News Special – 1-11-11
Read more "FuturePresent News Special – 1-11-11"Some tasty news lately for aspirant cyborgs. Let’s take a look:
…researchers trained the monkeys, Mango and Tangerine,…
Cyborg News Special – 08-10-11
Read more "Cyborg News Special – 08-10-11"It is more important than ever, as nearly everything seems on the brink of collapse and/or rapid change, that we honestly examine the past and present state of our culture and society. To…
Read more "Miss Representation trailer"Meet the new dog, bigger and badder than the old (big) dog:
Click here to view the embedded video.
Video via Spectrum IEEE, which tells us more:
Read more "Boston Dynamics AlphaDog"…those weights that AlphaDog is…
Steve Fuller, apparently a philosopher-sociologist of science and technology has released this series of book ‘trailers’ for his latest work, Humanity 2.0. This is the Introduction:
Steve Fuller: Humanity 2.0 or just NO?
Read more "Steve Fuller: Humanity 2.0 or just NO?"
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 