That’s just edge of the reactor plant, taken from Martyn Williams’s posterous blog. More photos there and a translation of an appendix released from the investigation into this tragedy;…
“We did not consider the effect of disastrophism”
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From nejlon (Several more images there), via @liamosaur
Massive webs created by spiders fleeing the floods in Pakistan (PIC)
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Of course, in the Philip K. Dick version of this scenario the devices would probably conspire against him.
via @bruces
Ericsson’s vision of the future-present smart home
The Ray Kurzweil documentary, Transcendent Man, has been downloadable for a while now and is having selected screenings across the world. Prompted by Paul Raven’s review on Futurismic…
thoughts on the Transcendent Man
Read more "thoughts on the Transcendent Man"Via a whole bunch of people, who are justifiably equal parts excited and terrified about what this might lead to:
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My first question, how does it handle
The “Predator”, or how to build a camera that learns
Read more "The “Predator”, or how to build a camera that learns"Now this is my kind of advertising campaign, stimulating collective Futurism by the citizens of Tunisia after re-claiming their country. Sure, I’m far more in favour of the envisioning process than…
Award winning campaign of revolutionary optimism: Tunisia – June 16th, 2014
Read more "Award winning campaign of revolutionary optimism: Tunisia – June 16th, 2014"This is a long, dense piece.. it’s Jamais Cascio’s speech to his Institute For The Future colleagues at their recent annual Ten Year Forecast event. It’s written in their native Futurist…
Jamais Cascio on Evolving our Society to Survive
Read more "Jamais Cascio on Evolving our Society to Survive"Via Stuart “Futuryst” Candy we learn of MIT’s Future Freight Flows; four attempts to show just what the year 02037 might look like, from the POV of a person watching various iterations of a…
Read more "In the year 02037…"Presenting the final transcription, the longest excerpt from Bruce Sterling’s closing speech at SXSW, which takes us into the third chunk of it’s rough recording.
I hope it moves you, like it…
Bruce Sterling’s SXSW speech – excerpt 4
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 