"It is also possible that all structures will be destroyed instantaneously, without any forewarning."

Response to the Richard Florida piece in the Atlantic. I almost bought the magazine to read the article. The fact that I didn't, and am instead bookmarking a blog post about it, goes to Varnelis' point.

FERAL CITIES

"Demographic inversion" proposed as replacement term for gentrification. Question of depth/width/length of the trend. By ed. of Governing mag. Imprecise about inner city vs downtown an what exactly Jane Jacobs wrote.

"The Future Unincorporated is a corporation operated by one employee. It is a consulting firm temporarily based in a shed on the edge of the forest in Haukivuori. The corporation will create a conversation about the future of Haukivuori & the world with p

Doctoroff, Filler, Joel Cohen discussed the urban future @ the hearst building.

urban pops to double in next 25 years.

"The International Time Capsule Society, which has formed with the mission to record the burial of all time capsules, is still in search of nine time capsules of which little is known."

lovely/naive murals showing the history & future of life in a supermarket break room. Partially based on Dougal Dixon.

'One Friedman Unit = six months ... From Thomas Friedman's repeated use of "the next six months" as the time period in which, "we're going to find out...whether a decent outcome is possible" in the Iraq War.' w/ list of F.U. pronouncementss

should read: 'most likely to be read in 2000.' Just bought Babbit, so useful to know. Of the 9 other authors listed as most likely to have this distinction, I'd only heard of 6.

Great details on the construction, and the BOOK OF RECORD distributed to monasteries and safe-houses across the world.

A look into the future that never was

"Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common." (2800 BC, and on from there)

NYC2012 but 4 years later & in the Midwest (If this gets the Circle Line/Midcity line built, I'm 100% for it) [logo's pretty good, too]

'powder' RFID chips: welcome to the new panopticon.

long term betting on 'things that matter' from Long Now, great. Bets that were decided two years ago are shown alongside bets to be decided - does the long now go into the past?

claims power at edges (eg CA) --> decentrlzn, whilst large nation leads to tyranny of central elites (?). PS You forgot China, only 23 net new breakaway states since '46 if you discount decolonialzn, count Yemen & Ger reunifctn (& 15 a

"An article in The Economist [1] spoofs predictions like Kurzweil’s by using static analysis to argue that disposable razors will have infinitely many blades by 2015."

"USA ... promote[d] globalization, whatever its benefits, ha[s] been the most powerful force of political, economic, social, & cultural destabilization ... since WWII; [it] resembles the '... everlasting uncertainty and agitation' forecast by Marx+Engels"

Pangea Ultima? Is it an apocalyptic or cyclical urge that makes us want Pangea to reappear?

exhib to see at Van Alan/Prat Manhattan

"genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge." When did the BBC start publishing sci-fi?

It's easy if you try... "All things considered, it will only take a few tens of thousands of years at most before almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely."

site they tell you to go to in the credits. 'Take action' links lead mostly to horribly designed/confusing affiliate sites. Oops! [the film is worth seeing, tho] [and no, I did not 'make a difference' by seeing it]

Leahb & BLDGBLOG speculate on aviary micronations

"scientific" post-millenarianism: This is not the wacky proclamation of a doomsday cult, apocalypse bible prophecy sect, or conspiracy theory society.

"King Abdullah Economic City"

founder of Storefront for Art&Arch edits "dystopian" volume

I think this was written by a moronic chimpanzee.

Cosanti found: intentional community w/ curvalicious concrete arch in Phoenix