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" Sixth Sense ," my interview with NPR's On the Media , talking about augmented reality, went live this weekend. Here's the audio:
( MP3 download also available.)
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My new Fast Company essay is now up, looking at the news that IBM researchers have produced a cortical computing system with the connection complexity of a cat's brain. (My original title is shown here on the illustration; the replacement title is a bit inaccurate and I've suggested a ...
Green Living
Sorry for going quiet for the last few days -- I've been in Vienna, Austria, giving a talk at the " Future Space " event. That bit is done, but now I'm off to another project.
The trip included the surreal experience of being interviewed by Die Presse , Austria's newspaper-of-record -- ...
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Austria
Superfreakonomics author Steven Levitt has been fighting against the myriad critics going after him for the many, many mistakes in (at least) the global warming section of the book. Interestingly, a phrase that keeps coming up in his rebuttals is "I'm not sure why that is blasphemy."
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The Singularity, in Five Slides from Jamais Cascio on Vimeo .
Three minute excerpt from the New York talk.
(Warning -- about halfway through, somebody bumps the camera, making a loud noise.)
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New York
Lots of new speakers joining the Biopolitics of Popular Culture event on December 4. Here's the latest info:
Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar
Friday, December 4, 2009
EON Reality, Irvine, CA, USA
This is your chance to learn firsthand from artists, writers, filmmakers, and culture ...
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My latest Fast Company essay is now up. " Is the Atmosphere Simpler Than We Thought? " takes a look at some recent research claiming that the atmosphere demonstrates a multifractal power-law structure.
McGill University physicist Shaun Lovejoy kept coming back to the idea, though, and he and ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
The talk I gave at the New York Future Salon is now available!
The entire video runs about 98 minutes; my talk starts after a couple of minutes of intro, and I finish up right at the one-hour mark. The remainder of the video is the Q&A; period, which has some good stuff, too. When I get ...
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Huffington Post
New York
Consider this something of an aside to the "basic futurism" series over at Fast Company .
As video becomes an increasingly important part of how organizations construct their internal and external narratives, those of us who work in the broad field of consulting will frequently find ...
Other
Quick question: where does this URL go to?
http://tinyurl.com/ya8p9vg
How about this one?
http://bit.ly/DkXOW
Would you have guessed that the first goes to a Computerworld article about business-appropriate avatars , and the second goes to the previous post on Open the Future ?
...
Green Living
Quick question: where does this URL go to?
http://tinyurl.com/ya8p9vg
How about this one?
http://bit.ly/DkXOW
Would you have guessed that the first goes to a Computerworld article about business-appropriate avatars , and the second goes to the previous post on Open the Future ?
...
Green Living
Warren Ellis' new " t-shirt a week " project, using Cafe Press , reminded me that, waaaay back in the early days of Open the Future, I tried out a Cafe Press shop just to get a couple of items of OtF stuff for myself. That stuff is all gone -- it used the logo from two iterations ago -- but ...
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My latest Fast Company piece is up. 350 takes a look at the global movement to limit CO 2 concentrations in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million.
If this sounds like I think the 350 movement is a bad idea... I don't. I rather like the simplicity of the meme, and the target is--if ...
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...I've got robot legs, but no mouth to talk.
And again ! With the shoving!
Boston Dynamics really likes to abuse its robots.
(For the whippersnappers in the audience who don't get the title reference, here . Yes, the usage is ironic. And get offa my lawn.)
