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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. Internet = Short Attention Spans. Arun Jiwa @ 23-06-2008. Linked to an article. In The Atlantic, written by Nicholas Carr. On how the Internet is changing our reading habits. Michael summed it up in the following line:. The internet is giving us a form of ADHD when it comes to reading, and we should be scared of that. Ok, Carr does mention the first half of Michael’s point in his article:. Image by twenty questions. Be Sociable, Share! 7 Responses t...
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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. The Lighter Side of Genetic Manipulation Nightmares. C Sven Johnson @ 19-05-2010. After Alba the fluorescent art rabbit. Was artificially engineered, and genetically modified zebra fish. Mass Custom Microbots For Everyone… Else. C Sven Johnson @ 24-03-2010. I told her I’d give it some thought. Continue reading “Mass Custom Microbots For Everyone… Else.”. The Top Ten Substitutive Pieces List. C Sven Johnson @ 02-01-2010. Once again, rounding up the h...
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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism. Paul Raven @ 06-08-2013. Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word futurist seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. Take it away, Dan. Whether you’re young or old there’s one thing you know: Your future is digital.
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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. Paul Raven @ 04-10-2014. Staying untypically on-topic, the good folk at. Are doing a series of future fictions under the banner. Using the software-dev format of the “user story”. The latest one is “Containers” by Adam Rothstein, and I commend it to your attention. BONUS RELATED MATERIAL: how many shipping containers. Get lost at sea? Quite a few, it turns out. Be Sociable, Share! Comments Off on Containers. He vaults effortlessly to the smooth coun...
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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. If it works, it’s obsolete. Paul Raven @ 02-02-2014. There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014]. Paul Raven @ 25-03-2011. Here’s a piece about how a graduate student has reinvented – and hence blown the lid off of – a technology that can “transmit data at high rates through thick, solid steel or other barriers”. It can carry power, too. Why is this a big deal?
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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. DIAMOND DUST by David Walton. Jeremy Lyon @ 01-11-2005. We’ve got a great new story from David Walton about the aftermath of a war in Taiwan and what happens to families torn apart by it. This story is NOT. Covered by the Creative Commons License that covers the majority of content on Futurismic. Her microspin would have attracted their stares even if her body hadn’t. Millions of micros flashed in tightly-programmed ellipses a millimeter from he...
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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. NEW FICTION: AN EDUCATION OF SCARS by Philip Brewer. Paul Raven @ 02-03-2009. This month’s fresh fiction at Futurismic is another examination of the ways small and alarmingly plausible advances in science and medicine might affect people’s lives in the near future. This time out, Philip Brewer. Delivers a dark and touching take on the classic love triangle in “An Education of Scars”. Let us know what you thought in the comments – and enjoy! It was h...
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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. The next 100 years. Tom James @ 31-08-2009. Writing in The New Statesman. Magazine, has an article up on the next 100 years. As seen through the theoretical prism of geopolitics. This is a doctrine that emphasises the importance of the permanently operating factors of geography in determining global dominance:. The Europeans are divided. New powers will emerge. In the 19th century, Germany, Italy and Japan began to emerge as great powers, while ...
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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. Paul Raven @ 04-10-2014. Staying untypically on-topic, the good folk at. Are doing a series of future fictions under the banner. Using the software-dev format of the “user story”. The latest one is “Containers” by Adam Rothstein, and I commend it to your attention. BONUS RELATED MATERIAL: how many shipping containers. Get lost at sea? Quite a few, it turns out. Comments Off on Containers. NEW FICTION: WORLD IN PROGRESS by Lori Ann White. He vaults e...
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Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001. Hope for a Global Spring? Brenda Cooper @ 14-03-2012. Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning finally to pick up in the US. Tags: Big Data Analytics. Brenda Cooper @ 08-02-2012. Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Game Writing. Jonathan McCalmont @ 18-01-2012. Out of Destruction, Transformation? Brenda Cooper @ 11-01-2012. Better Writing Through Writing About Writing. Luc Reid @ 21-12-2011. Tags: Brain Hacks for Writers. On Quantum c...
