Flying towards the future, eyes fixed on the past.
Read More »Futurism
Games, art, and enchantment
Since when is technological advancement a prerequisite for artistic seriousness?
Read More »Images and the future of reading
From Steve Martin to the shield of Achilles, considering the relationship of image and text in a networked age.
Read More »Facing the crowded future of reading
Two very different sets of assumptions about what books are and what reading them in a networked age should be like.
Read More »Benevolent robot kites will watch over us
German robotics company Festo offers a postfuturist menagerie: autonomous kites, silver air-jellyfish and flying robo-penguins.
Read More »Wonders of the future: collect the whole set!
At the blog Paleo-future, visions of techno-optimism & brave new worlds�all in a packet of cigarettes.
Read More »The tyranny of innovation
Larry Page tells us to ask ourselves if the work we do is changing the world. But is change always and everywhere for the better?
Read More »Printing out the orbital infrastructure
3-D printing is going viral. With 3-D fabrication technology at for the desktop, for LEGOs, and for nanoscale materials, it was only a matter of time before the paradigm found its way into space�and corporate science fiction. But this promising technology still has to prove itself in terrestrial infrastructure first.
Read More »Mobile and the perpetual renewal of the public sphere
At the Web 2.0 Summit, a look at the emergence of mobile technology and unforeseen twists in the story of the digital divide and the ongoing evolution of the public sphere.
Read More »Kevin Kelly: technology wants autonomy
To Kelly, the advance guard of the technium is to be found among the quadrillions of computer chips networked into vast electronic systems. But It may be difficult to discern whether the desires driving that process belong to technology, or are our own.
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