Posts Tagged ‘Sceptical Futuryst’

Foresight Links for Jun 7, 6:00 am

// June 7th, 2010 // Comments Off // Digests, Foresight

  • Life in Hell, circa 02050, stuart candy @ the sceptical futuryst:
    I loved this cartoon by Matt The Simpsons Groening when I saw it years ago. And was delighted to rediscover it a week or two back, in a published collection (found at Aardvark Books, an excellent San Francisco used bookstore) of his long-running comic …
  • The Futures of Everyday Life, stuart candy @ the sceptical futuryst:
    Artwork by Sky Kiyabu for FoundFutures, August 02006Poster used in “Hawaii 2050″ Blue RoomIn Honolulu last Thursday morning, 27 May, I defended my completed doctoral dissertation. The five committee members accepted the document as submitted, without …

Foresight Links for Mar 29, 6:00 am

// March 29th, 2010 // Comments Off // Digests, Foresight

  • Reperceiving Detroit, stuart candy @ the sceptical futuryst:
    A city in suspended animationPhoto by Jerry Paffendorf | BackstoryIn late January I was honoured to speak at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as part of their spring lecture series in Critical Studies. In the arts world the Acade…
  • Honest Signal Book by Future Salon Speaker Sandy Pentland, Mark Finnern @ Future Salon:
    Wyane Radinsky found the video of the Elevator experiment. See further down. As a good host of the Reality Mining Future Salon happening today Thursday 25th of March, I got MIT Professor Sandy Pentland’s latest book: Honest Signals: How…

Foresight Links for Jan 25, 6:00 am

// January 25th, 2010 // Comments Off // Digests, Foresight

  • Flows of knowledge, Dominique Jaurola @ Far Other Worlds:
    What is witchcraft today may become science tomorrow What is science today may become witchcraft tomorrow What does that tell us? 1. Just because something is not proven through science does not make it less valuable fodder for our thinking processes 2…
  • Amusing anachronisms, stuart candy @ the sceptical futuryst:
    After attending a 35th anniversary screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail last night — a movie which revels in outrageous anachronisms and (what some would call) thoroughly postmodern, meta-media commentary — I’m moved to post below three video…