Another, smaller, excerpt transcribed from Bruce Sterling’s closing speech at SXSW for your reading (and quoting) pleasure. For those playing at home, we’re now into the second chunk roughly…
Bruce Sterling’s SXSW speech – excerpt 3
Read more "Bruce Sterling’s SXSW speech – excerpt 3"This short-film by Interdisciplinary Fashion Designer Nancy Tilbury and Visual Artists 125 Creative gives us a glimpse at what they think fashion in 2050 might look like:
Couture becomes a…
Digital Skins Body Atmospheres: a glimpse of 2050?
Read more "Digital Skins Body Atmospheres: a glimpse of 2050?"There’s not that much that’s new here, for those of us that have been closely following this over the years, but it’s still quite something to see listed, one after another, the many achievements…
TED Talk: It’s time to question bio-engineering
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A woman passes by a sign on a fire station, displaying the local time, temperature and radioactivity level data, in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on March 16, 2011.
Since there isn’t a decent recording online, and as a gift to the Future, I’ve started the process of transcribing key chunks of Bruce Sterling’s closing speech at SXSW, which I’ll post over the…
Bruce Sterling’s SXSW speech – excerpt 1
Read more "Bruce Sterling’s SXSW speech – excerpt 1"Here’s Adam Greenfield‘s excellent, thought-provoking keynote at the recent Cognitive Cities conference in Berlin – On Public Objects: Connected Things And Civic Responsibilities In…
Adam Greenfield’s Cognitive Cities keynote: On Public Objects
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One of a rare breed of scientists willing to volunteer their own bodies in the service of science, professor Warwick let British surgeons place a silicon chip with 100 spiked electrodes…
“My Body, My Laboratory” in TIME
Read more "“My Body, My Laboratory” in TIME"He posted it in the comments, but I thought it deserved a post of its own; @Rabbitz has translated my recent essay “It’s not a war, it’s a rescue mission” into Spanish.
Thank you kind sir!
“No es una guerra, es una misión de rescate”
Read more "“No es una guerra, es una misión de rescate”"This is the final part of a three part essay on the state and the fate of the world. If you missed it, the first part is here and the second part is here. Events discussed within it were…
“It’s not a war, it’s a rescue mission” Part 3
Read more "“It’s not a war, it’s a rescue mission” Part 3"This is the second part of a three part essay on the state and the fate of the world. If you missed it, the first part is here. Events discussed within it were true at the time of writing, but…
“It’s not a war, it’s a rescue mission” Part 2
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 