#future

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https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/?ueid=4b9317396...

This is taking a delibarately provocative stance, sure, but it's also true, and moderately funny rea...

alasdairw Jun 12, 2025

https://interconnected.org/home/2020/11/17/self_dr...

I would absolutely love this. I have a tiny business that this year has basically been nothing but...

alasdairw Nov 25, 2020
Revolutionary Rice
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https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/revolut...

Short summary on how a genetic tweak to rice could revolutionise agriculture. Still years off, but...

alasdairw Mar 25, 2016

http://magicalnihilism.com/2014/06/20/maximum-happ...

This has sort of crystallised something for me. From where we currently stand, we can just about se...

alasdairw Jun 23, 2014

http://signsfromthenearfuture.tumblr.com/

On the one hand, this is interesting because it's about the practical applications of design. On th...

alasdairw May 22, 2014

http://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/the-coffee-sho...

I find the sort of future he's describing here quite pleasing, as he's essentially saying that the o...

alasdairw Mar 03, 2012

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInter...

This is utterly brilliant. It very neatly skewers several big flaws in that Microsoft vision-of-the-...

alasdairw Nov 09, 2011

http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/08/03/the-robot-re...

Absolutely 100|% mandatory reading for anyone interested in the future-present. If this doesn't spa...

alasdairw Aug 04, 2011

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/05/kinect-and-3d...

Another one from the "shut up about your fucking jetpack already" files: using consumer-grade tech a...

alasdairw May 05, 2011

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfictio...

Brief, but good, analysis of our current state of future-ness. It's not exactly packed with earth s...

alasdairw Jan 20, 2011

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrill...

It's one way of looking at MMOs (and related industries), I guess. I'm aware that Warcrack has a GP...

alasdairw Nov 09, 2010

http://vimeo.com/15959445

Mr Cascio being clever, as per. Wouldn't mind seeing the whole documentary if the opportunity were...

alasdairw Oct 19, 2010

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2010/10/...

Lot of interesting stuff about the lack of future (for lack of a better term) that's around at the m...

alasdairw Oct 06, 2010

http://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=404

This ones doing the rounds, and with excellent reason. A bit of writing on posthumanity that encomp...

alasdairw Sep 30, 2010

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/0...

I had been blaming the decade long rise of extremism and authoritarian clampdowns on some kind of po...

alasdairw Sep 20, 2010