Why Decline to Accept the End of Man?
There are at least two clearly distinct ways of interpreting the word “end” in William Faulkner’s statement “I decline to accept the end of man.” “End” could mean something like […]
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Breaking News: Jaron Lanier Called to the Witness Stand in London to Discuss the Future of Hip-Hop Music
Tomorrow, Google is sponsoring a debate in London called “Hip-Hop on Trial” to consider the proposition that “Hip-Hop Doesn’t Enhance Society, It Degrades It.” The event will be streaming live […]
Rio +20 and the (UN)canny Future of Human Sadness
In 2011 Ray Kurzweil made headlines for pointing out that solar energy technologies had been subject to the Law of Accelerated Returns for the past two decades. “It is amazing […]
Technological Determinism, Human Decisions
We’ve all heard the stories of inevitability: more and more transistors per square centimeter, with momentous leaps to new computing hardware whenever material capacity reaches its limit. While massively parallel, one-to-many molecular […]
Drone Swarm
They’re everywhere! Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have done some amazing work with formation flying drones (make sure to check out the obstacle avoidance at the end). Smarter flying […]
Book Review: The Art of the Long View
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 read this book, which is every bit […]
Solving Traffic, One Motorist at a Time
I hate traffic, you hate traffic, we all hate traffic, but we can’t do anything about it because we are traffic. The conventional wisdom, at least, my conventional wisdom on […]
Will Joel Garreau & Jamais Cascio Prevail — Along With The Rest Of Us?
Cyberculture luminary R.U. Sirius has done a great interview with Joel and Jamais about the Prevail Project, and what we’re trying to accomplish. As Joel says, “Politics, in its most useful incarnation, […]
A Year In Prevail
What a year it’s been! Starting with the little things, the Prevail Project itself has been active for about a year, running in stealth mode for most of that time. […]
On the occasion of the end of the war in Iraq
By Dr. Richard O’Meara On December 15, 2011, the last US flag was cased and the War in Iraq was declared over. It is well to remember that since the […]