Earth Day, 2020 On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, let's take a moment to think about the 50th anniversary.
Thu Apr 22, 2010
Futures Thinking: A Bibliography So you want to be a futurist? Better be ready to do a lot of reading.
Fri Apr 16, 2010
World Water Day 2010: Three Projects That Are Changing the Future In the developing world, a billion people go without clean water. Across the developed world, storms and failing infrastructure threaten to contaminate water supplies. Is there any hope to be found?
Mon Mar 22, 2010
World Water Day In the developing world, a billion people go without clean water. Across the developed world, storms and failing infrastructure threaten to contaminate water supplies. Is there any hope to be found?
Mon Mar 22, 2010
Why the End Times Might Reek of Methane What does a climate change "tipping point" look like? We may be about to find out first hand.
Tue Mar 9, 2010
Augmented (Fashion) Reality Earthquakes, global warming, patent lawsuits... it's all a bit much, sometimes. Even a sober-minded "moral guide to the future" needs a break. So today, we talk about fashion.
Wed Mar 3, 2010
Futures Thinking: Writing Scenarios So what do scenarios actually look like? Here are some real-world examples.
Wed Feb 24, 2010
Futures Thinking: Mapping the Possibilities (Part 2) Expected. Better. Worse. Weirder. What kind of world will we live in?
Thu Feb 11, 2010
Futures Thinking: Mapping the Possibilities (Part 1) Turning what you see around you into stories about what's to come.
Wed Feb 3, 2010
iWorry: Does the iPad Signal the End of the Era of Open Computing? For those of you living under a rock, Apple's announcement of the iPad tablet has shaken up the tech world. The combination of slick hardware and more-than-usable software has long been Apple's stock-in-trade, and the iPad demonstrates again what we saw with the iPod back in 2001, and the iPhone back in 2007--interface matters. Tablet computers aren't new, but neither were MP3 players or smart phones.
Thu Jan 28, 2010
White Roofs, Vampire Loads, and the Quest for Efficiency Art Rosenfeld retired last week from the California Energy Commission. What kind of difference did he make? How does $30 billion/year savings sound?
Tue Jan 19, 2010
Innovation as Resource and China's New Magnetism China is set to cut off access to rare-earth elements--and this might be a very good thing.
Wed Jan 6, 2010
Futures Thinking: Scanning the World Looking for the distant early warnings of tomorrow.
Posted Fri Nov 27, 2009
IBM Simulates a Cat-Like Brain: AI or Shadow Minds for Humans? IBM's new cat brain simulation is both more -- and less -- than it seems.
Posted Thu Nov 19, 2009
Is the Atmosphere Simpler Than We Thought? The "butterfly effect" is being set aside in favor of a multifractal process that will have a major impact on climate models.
Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009
350 350 parts-per-million is the carbon limit. How will we get back there?
Posted Tue Oct 27, 2009
Futures Thinking: Asking the Question What do you want to know (about tomorrow) today?
Posted Mon Oct 19, 2009
Singularity Scenarios: The Ultimate Innovation or an AI Apocalypse? If we do have something we can describe as a Singularity, what then?
Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009
The Singularity and Society If the Singularity proponents are right, the world is going to get really weird--but not in the way they expect.
Posted Tue Sep 29, 2009
Futures Thinking: The Basics You too can forecast the future!
Posted Thu Sep 17, 2009
