Tag Archives: The Future

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop

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The shape of things to come: YouTube – Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop

Infographic: Job Market in 2018

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NPR research put together this informative graphic about how different employment sectors will change between 2008 and 2018: Employment Future: The Decade Ahead In Jobs found via Fast Company NPR also has a special series called New Jobs For A New Decade

Year 2010 becoming reality

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The year 2010 (not to be confused with the movie 2010 (1984)) is slowly, but surely becoming a reality. Everyday I hear of something scheduled to happen in 2010, and it adds a tiny bit of mass to the foggy concept in my mind of just what 2010 might be.

Bruce Sterling At Reboot 2009 (via Warren Ellis)

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Sterling is a creative sci-fi author (a.k.a. speculative fiction novelist) and blogger about the state of things and how that will shape what is to come (a.k.a. futurist). He’s not one to pussyfoot around an impending crisis, or mince words about valuable contribution to human society. In that vein, he gave a downright sobering lecture [...]

It’s a madhouse (this modern life) when you need a webapp to track your drink I.O.U.s

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I think the title says it all….except that the webapp is called Foamee. My own life has no use for such a posh form of inter-connectivity. I believe friends are a prerequisite to use a service like this…

“Flow” (via Trailer Addict)

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This documentary comes from the Beastie Boys’ film studio, Oscilloscope Pictures, but it is no concert flick. Flow is a serious investigation into a very scary global situation: water. Water sustains life, but–unlike air–it is bottled, packaged, and diverted from those who need it most, to those who can pay the most. Director Irena Salina [...]

China fakes entire Olympics

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Did you hear? The whole thing is a fake. It’s not even happening. The athletes are all in their home countries on stages with green-screens. See what I did there? I used hyperbole to make a satirical point. If you have no idea what I am referring to, good for you — you are able [...]

“Adaptive Path and Mozilla: future of Web-browsing video”…Not! (on Boing Boing)

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Are you ready for the future?! Adaptive path isn’t. At least according to their demo of what a future browser might look like — a browser that can interact with the data on your PC, send it to a person you are chatting with, allow them to annotate it, etc., etc., whatever. *** Begin Tangential [...]

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