We Alone on Earth

I just saw this on Warren Ellis's blog, and had to repost. I've including author Justin Pickard's summary verbatim below. Still...

Several of my projects these days are centering on foresight, the process of looking at the future and doing something other than burying yo...

This is day 2 of the EMERGE event write-up, and my reflections on the workshop, Science Fiction Prototyping with Brian David Johnson, Intel ...

“The problem is that science-fiction writers have stopped writing new futures and just started rehashing the past.” "No, the problem is...

The curse of grad school is that there’s always something else to do. I was finally able to grab a moment from the endless treadmill of read...

I just got out of EMERGE , a design futures event put on by ASU that brought together artists, scientists, writers, hackers, designers, futu...

I've been calling myself a futurist for the past five years, and for five years, I've been lying. But no longer, because I've re...

Ancient peoples worshiped many gods, but modern civilization bows before a single principle: Innovation. As President Obama said in Tuesday...

"If we intend to practice anticipatory technology assessment either as inventors or as policy analysts and scholars, we should not appr...

If you're ever up for a laugh, dig up futurist predictions for the 1930s or 50s, and see what they thought the future would be like. Ye...

Medical science has yet to isolate the specific germ, spore, or neurofungus that transforms normal earthlings into Californians, but the exi...

In its emergence, nanotechnology is the stuff of science-fiction made real, while science-fictions are the dreams of science. Alone each is...

Technological development is a human phenomenon carried out by hard working scientists and engineers supported by a social and political fra...

This is the first in a series of five short essays on nanotechnology and science-fiction. No man can know what tomorrow will bring, but even...

New York Times columnist David Brooks posted a provocative column on American futurism, optimism, and innovation. He proposes that the qua...

An excellent and imaginative post from Everett. The upcoming climate/energy crisis is the product of a clash between two competing ecosystem...

A brief overview of current futurism shows that most of it is predicated on a notion of catastrophe. Global warming, energy, finance, radica...