Congress for the New Urbanism | Freeways Without Futures
september 2008 by bkerr
"the top-ten locations in North America where the opportunity is greatest to stimulate valuable revitalization by replacing aging urban highways with boulevards and other cost-saving urban alternatives."
planning
demo
future
nTopia
september 2008 by bkerr
University of Michigan CAUP | Global Suburbs
february 2008 by bkerr
March 7 and 8, 2008. "This conference seeks to examine global suburban development broadly to understand not only the past and present character of suburbia, but also with the hopes of understanding and guiding future development."
umich
events
urban
planning
suburbitude
future
handwavium
etc
via:mahatm
february 2008 by bkerr
The New Yorker | Onward and Upward with the Arts: Future Reading -- Digitization and its discontents, by Anthony Grafton
computer lit lib text context archive libraries teh-googe informons qnalitas writing printing marginalia scanning edu research retrieval infinite perfected digitized future
november 2007 by bkerr
computer lit lib text context archive libraries teh-googe informons qnalitas writing printing marginalia scanning edu research retrieval infinite perfected digitized future
november 2007 by bkerr
SteamPunk Magazine | A SteamPunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse
october 2007 by bkerr
"Our Future lies in an honest Technology, a Technology that is within our Reach, a Technology that will not abandon us, a Technology that requires not the dark Oils of subterranean Caverns."
steampunk
apocalypse
fallout
survival
boon-companion
dismal
ruinous
future
end-of-the-war-game
october 2007 by bkerr
The Nation | Woody Guthrie, by Steve Earle (July 21, 2003)
september 2007 by bkerr
"As much as we need him right now, I wouldn't wish this post-9/11 world on Woody. He hated Irving Berlin's 'God Bless America' more than any other song in the world."
guthrie
earle
dylan
anomalous
intersection
okemah
oklahoma
dust-bowl
back-to-california
migrant
okies
communist
in-the-red
blue
white
organic
social
conscience
ultimate
hillbilly
autodidact
selfsabotage
nostalgiac
musical
future
september 2007 by bkerr
things magazine
things magazine humans spaces dwellings networks images design change future extinction apocalypse endings machines samplings art architecture prices towers secondlife games nostalgia explanations lack-thereof arcana passageways taxidermy cities tours wonders glass-houses
september 2007 by bkerr
things magazine humans spaces dwellings networks images design change future extinction apocalypse endings machines samplings art architecture prices towers secondlife games nostalgia explanations lack-thereof arcana passageways taxidermy cities tours wonders glass-houses
september 2007 by bkerr
The Huffington Post | Alan Gutierrez: When The Saints Go Marching In
august 2007 by bkerr
"This city of New Orleans is a city of yes and no. Yes, we want you to visit because our economy depends on it. No, we are not okay. I spend most of my time in the city of no."
neworleans
development
future
yes
no
(no)
august 2007 by bkerr
Amazon | Across the Border to Spook Country: An Interview with William Gibson
spook-country william-gibson interview party-like-it's-2007 scenario shadowy-mysterious-characters caper-novel thriller object container macguffin baghdad-batteries erich-von-däniken weapon proposal disbelief ritual literary survival pattern recognition pattern-recognition fiction future imaginary yardstick rate-of-change difference-engine mmowhatever american-civil-war secondlife deserted empty architecture feral-cities mean avatars untethered google everything text word firefox memoir biography bruce-flatware speculative history changes burroughs beat amazon cyberstuff girls-with-bionic-fingernails patina-of-quaintness idoru nodal-point charlie-stross neuromancer victorian vancouver nyc
july 2007 by bkerr
spook-country william-gibson interview party-like-it's-2007 scenario shadowy-mysterious-characters caper-novel thriller object container macguffin baghdad-batteries erich-von-däniken weapon proposal disbelief ritual literary survival pattern recognition pattern-recognition fiction future imaginary yardstick rate-of-change difference-engine mmowhatever american-civil-war secondlife deserted empty architecture feral-cities mean avatars untethered google everything text word firefox memoir biography bruce-flatware speculative history changes burroughs beat amazon cyberstuff girls-with-bionic-fingernails patina-of-quaintness idoru nodal-point charlie-stross neuromancer victorian vancouver nyc
july 2007 by bkerr
The Vault -- a Fallout wiki | Timeline
july 2007 by bkerr
"Much of the following text comes from the timeline in Fallout Bible 0, written by Chris Avellone ... Additionally, this timeline includes all dates mentioned in Fallout and Fallout 2 holodisks, in the dialogues, and in old design documents."
games
fallout
wiki
life-in-the-vault
future
sf
timeline
july 2007 by bkerr
anonymous cowgirl | ubifarm
july 2007 by bkerr
"Gardens, farms and markets might have their own RSS feeds. My phone ought to tell me when arugula is available in Davis Square."
ubifarm
pervasive
agriculture
eloquent
markets
communicative
soil
cybernetic
lunch
future
s-s-s-spime
july 2007 by bkerr
Twitter / Barbara: Why don't programming tutorials do fun things like "Programming your jet car for its new oscillation overthruster" instead of making stores?
computer language learning process tutorials foobar-retail or future jet-car oscillation-overthrusters remember-the-time-kleptor37-underthrusted-its-oscillaton what-a-riot
july 2007 by bkerr
computer language learning process tutorials foobar-retail or future jet-car oscillation-overthrusters remember-the-time-kleptor37-underthrusted-its-oscillaton what-a-riot
july 2007 by bkerr
globeandmail.com | William Gibson Pining for Toronto's 'gone world'
may 2007 by bkerr
College Hostel beckons: "Only the febrile tackiness of Yonge below Bloor preserves something of my past, and I invariably find myself walking there, considering how the cheap, flashy goods of the 21st century resemble the cheap flashy goods of the 20th."
toronto
canada
lost
retro
futurism
urban
cyberkipple
future
nostalgia
may 2007 by bkerr
Design Observer | Al Gore for President
may 2007 by bkerr
Yet another Gore 200X meliorism, laden with stirring Bruce Flatware futurological rhetoric: "Is it naive to cast a vote based on the candidate who most believes in the future, everyone's future? Or is it, quite frankly, necessary?"
politics
social
design
future
cost
s-s-s-spime
eco
everythinig
futurism
may 2007 by bkerr
page of text . com
may 2007 by bkerr
Like image bucket or tinyurl, but for micro wiki pages.
word-lines
micro
wiki
virus
introducing-your
content-addressable
future
may 2007 by bkerr
New York Times | ‘The Joy of Drinking’ excerpt, book by Barbara Holland
may 2007 by bkerr
Quoth britta: "a 'carefree history' tells the story of how 'civilization begins with fermentation.'"
drink
booze
alcohol
history
human
past
future
behavior
two-shots-of-happy
one-shot-of-sad
may 2007 by bkerr
90% Crud | Detroit Roundup
march 2007 by bkerr
George on Rep. Walberg's quote: "What's great about this is that the analogy is arguing that 80% of Iraq and Detroit are 'reasonably under control' which means the guy is using Detroit as a point somewhere on the line between IEDs and Broadway musicals."
detroit
detritus
michigan
rustbelt
real-estate
future
combat
employee
compensation
etc
march 2007 by bkerr
Lion Kimbro’s Blog | Local Names Update
march 2007 by bkerr
On Lion's agenda: "CLI interpreter -- Write a simple, very basic, single-file CLI interpreter for reading a Local Names 1.5 namespace description, and resolving a search path." This is the biggie for us Mac OS types.
local
names
localnames
hypertext
writing
interface
future
status
sed
march 2007 by bkerr
steampunk magazine
march 2007 by bkerr
"...is dedicated to promoting steampunk as a culture, as more than a sub-category of fiction. It is a journal of fashion, music, misapplied technology and chaos. And fiction." Volume 1 out now, free download or $3 by mail.
steampunk
zine
retro
future
tech
nostalgia
march 2007 by bkerr
Idioms
march 2007 by bkerr
"Suggestions on how to talk in the 21st century."
computing
games
complexity
future
language
weblogs
language-is-a-virus-from-outer-space
metaphors-and-other-failures
march 2007 by bkerr
Foreign Office | Children of Men
february 2007 by bkerr
Media + multimedia + interactive media from "Children of Men" -- nice to get a closer look at some of the micro details in a very hectic haptic happening movie.
media
advertising
ui
interaction
design
future
lit
sf
politics
february 2007 by bkerr
Jack Lessenberry | Essay: Michigan's Future - 2/27/07
february 2007 by bkerr
"I know some educated and cultured conservatives, and when they want to get away for an interesting weekend, they generally don’t go to rural Alabama. They go to high-tax places like New York City or Los Angeles or Boston."
michigan
rustbelt
taxation
crap
future
february 2007 by bkerr
Desolation Row Redux - a photoset on Flickr
february 2007 by bkerr
"Abandoned housing project, Taiwan." Set 2 of 2.
raygungothic
urban
future
ruins
visual
city
exopolitics
time-and-the-radiant-holy-city
gernsback-continuum
february 2007 by bkerr
Desolation Row - a photoset on Flickr
february 2007 by bkerr
"Abandoned housing project, Taiwan." Set 1 of 2.
raygungothic
urban
future
ruins
visual
city
exopolitics
time-and-the-radiant-holy-city
gernsback-continuum
february 2007 by bkerr
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler | The Agenda Restated
february 2007 by bkerr
Jim Kunstler agenda for the world of tomorrow
ecology
economics
clustering
fuckup
future
agenda
culture
cities
planning
etc
via:adamgreenfield
february 2007 by bkerr
Warning Signs - a photoset on Flickr
october 2006 by bkerr
Larger versions of the "Warning Signs for Tomorrow" (see previous link).
warning
signage
future
spime
rfid
grey-goo
etc
horror
via:beyondthebeyond
october 2006 by bkerr
Cinematical | Shall We Play A Game... Again?
october 2006 by bkerr
"This isn't the first time the world has been threatened by a sequel to the 1983 Matthew Broderick vehicle and quintessential 80s flick War Games."
movies
war
games
past
future
october 2006 by bkerr
Amazon Business Solutions - Fulfillment by Amazon
september 2006 by bkerr
Bookmarked because I come back to this page every couple of days and think about the future.
amazon
distributed
retail
service
commerce
future
september 2006 by bkerr
The Goodspeed Update | Michigan Plans ‘Aerotropolis’
september 2006 by bkerr
Rob reports on student projects from a January 2006 design exercise in developments re: activity around DTW and Willow Run airports. Aficionados of RoboCop will note the similarity of several designs to "Delta City."
michigan
detroit
airport
architecture
urban
planning
future
september 2006 by bkerr
10,000 Reasons Civilization is Doomed
august 2006 by bkerr
Well, 928 reasons at this writing (and three days after site launches).
humans
future
doom
august 2006 by bkerr
for brian on Flickr
june 2006 by bkerr
Finally, Dan's annotated picture of the future bag.
future
bag
june 2006 by bkerr
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
june 2006 by bkerr
"...is a community effort to catalog works of fiction. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and fort
lit
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fiction
bibliography
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future
via:ryanmax
june 2006 by bkerr
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