RSS

kjell + future   102

Cities as Software | marcus westbury
"In effect we made the physical space behave as their virtual spaces did – easy to get into and out of, allowing of experimentation and failure and most importantly full of tools and structures and plugin ins designed to make it simple and cheap for them to do what they are passionate about."
architecture  cities  digital  future 
may 2011 by kjell
The 2-Billion-Eyed Intermedia
The Internet as non-partial, constant, and global interlocutor. (Note: I am posting this from the a40 buzzing northwest out of the alps towards Paris.)
Future  society  Internet  culture  attention  media  computer 
february 2010 by kjell
Data Centers Heat Offices, Greenhouses, Pools « Data Center Knowledge
Computers aren't just getting under our skin, but also keeping it nice and toasty.
Computers  society  infrastructure  future  reuse 
february 2010 by kjell
Forecast 2010 - Clusterfuck Nation
bq. We’re a nation of thugs and louts with flames tattooed on our necks, who call each other “motherfucker” and are skilled only in playing video games based on mass murder.

Ah, Kunstler.
America  long-emergency  future  economy  society 
february 2010 by kjell
2010: Living In the Future | the book
I like the sports & leisure centers, the pipe shipping, and the in-floor beds and tables. Most of it actually.
future  predictions  2010  technology  history 
january 2010 by kjell
All Watched Over...
…by machines of loving grace. What technologies would I say fit such a poetic bill? 'Earthships' are first to mind. I'd almost put the iPod(/Phone) up there. What else? "Surely not cars":http://forest/2007/02/10/ilya-ehrenburg.html.
poem  technology  future  machines 
january 2010 by kjell
Personal Spaces (For Hire)
Jan Chipchase on switchable (between opaque and transparent) glass.
future  architecture  design  glass  privacy 
september 2009 by kjell
Inhabitat » Kyocera Unveils Kinetic Flexible OLED Cell Phone
Fuck the iPhone, I want one of these.
art  design  future  technology  phone  mobile  oled  interaction  device 
may 2009 by kjell
LET IT DIE: Rushkoff on the economy | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS
Inexact quote: our economy isn't an economy so much as it's a ponzi scheme.
society  economy  finance  future  money  commerce 
march 2009 by kjell
The Demon-Haunted World
design  culture  future  architecture  technology  urban  computing  infrastructure  geography  everyware 
february 2009 by kjell
Nepal: Wireless in the Mountains
This guy makes the minneapolis city wifi look like shit. 20km of wireless relays into a remote mountain village to run computers at the school.
development  diy  wifi  wireless  nepal  network  future 
february 2009 by kjell
Social Collapse Best Practices
bq. There is nothing any of us can do to change the path we are on: it is a huge system with tremendous inertia, and trying to change its path is like trying to change the path of a hurricane. What we can do is prepare ourselves, and each other, mostly by changing our expectations, our preferences, and scaling down our needs. It may mean that you will miss out on some last, uncertain bit of enjoyment. On the other hand, by refashioning yourself into someone who might stand a better chance of adapting to the new circumstances, you will be able to give to yourself, and to others, a great deal of hope that would otherwise not exist.
politics  society  usa  economics  collapse  survival  future 
february 2009 by kjell
The City Is Here: Table of contents
architecture  urban  cities  network  sense  connection  future 
february 2009 by kjell
Seed: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic
Bruce Sterling: "Indeed, the year 2009 is shaping up as a planetary Enron."
future  environment  world  bruce-sterling  collapse 
january 2009 by kjell
BLDGBLOG: Hydro-Pharmacology
bq. Thousands of years pass; then millions. The rocks you're looking at in the wall of that canyon are made of lithified Prozac. Tylenol Gorge State Park.
future  ecology  world  rivers  pollution  manufacturing  science  water  health  drugs 
january 2009 by kjell
Put down the camera…
society  technology  future  usage  camera  memory  perception 
january 2009 by kjell
The Last Professor - Stanley Fish Blog
bq. The for-profit university is the logical end of a shift from a model of education centered in an individual professor who delivers insight and inspiration to a model that begins and ends with the imperative to deliver the information and skills necessary to gain employment.
future  education  learning  college  capitalism  humanism  university  pedagogy 
january 2009 by kjell
Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas
A tremendously bad interface, but the Whole Earth family of magazines/books has been digitized and published online for free.
culture  history  activism  magazine  technology  earth  ideas  tools  future 
january 2009 by kjell
Stewart Brand on the Long Now | Video on TED.com
Awesomer than awesome.
future  long-now  clock  mountain  stewart-brand 
november 2008 by kjell
Inhabitat » The Solar-Powered Robotic Automower
The Future.
tech  robots  chores  future  design  lawn  care  robot  lawnmower  solar 
november 2008 by kjell
Editorial - So Little Time, So Much Damage - NYTimes.com
The Bush administration is trying to get as much change in as possible before they're out on the stoop; and not in a good way.
politics  bush  america  law  future 
november 2008 by kjell
On Obama, Without Cynicism
"But no matter. If there’s disappointment, it can come later. Today’s a day to celebrate."
politics  obama  president  2008  future  america 
november 2008 by kjell
Bank robber hires decoys on Craigslist, fools cops | The Social - CNET News
"Crowdsourcing crime: Bank robber hires unwitting conspirators via craigslist." The future is here my friends.
internet  crime  weird  craigslist  future  robbery  bank 
october 2008 by kjell
Hey U.S., welcome to the Third World! - Los Angeles Times
We're fucked.
economics  USA  finance  world  future 
september 2008 by kjell
IT Index | Academic Commons
What's the techno-cultural divide of the future gonna look like?
society  technology  youth  future 
september 2008 by kjell
The Atlantic Online | July/August 2005 | Countdown to a Meltdown | James Fallows
nice speculative historical account of the fall of the American empire.
history  culture  America  economy  future 
september 2008 by kjell
Thoughts for an eleventh September: Alvin Toffler, Hirohito, Sarah Palin
"The gobsmacking foolishness of our national discourse, the things which now seem to signify, the very person selected to act out these psychodramas on the national stage - these are all far surer signs that the future is deeply, and I mean pants-shittingly, terrifying to many Americans."
society  usa  culture  politics  world  america  future 
september 2008 by kjell
Case history | Touching the future | Economist.com
The economist on touchscreens.
iphone  screen  multitouch  touchscreen  interaction  future 
september 2008 by kjell
Lights out? Experts fear fireflies are dwindling - Yahoo! News
:(
earth  diversity  pollution  insect  future 
august 2008 by kjell
Op-Ed Columnist - Know-Nothing Politics - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
politics  usa  future  discourse  society 
august 2008 by kjell
A Clean Break | Musings
Phil Distler on Israel's plans to aggressively ditch gasoline automobiles by—wait for it—2018. And fucking Obama is cheering us on to lower our consumption of gasoline 80% by—guess—2050… Fuck us.
oil  transportation  future  israel  electric  cars  infrastructure 
august 2008 by kjell
Face Swapper Privacy
This is fucked up. Imagine the day that our neural implants can do this in real time, and everyone can pick which avatar they'd like to be perceived as in the 'real world…'
future  computing  reality  manipulation  image 
july 2008 by kjell
Giles Bowkett: A Yurt With A Brain
I've wanted to do this to my house forever. Unfortunately I have no house. Soon though?
home  automation  ai  architecture  future 
july 2008 by kjell
Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole
What the FUCK.
climate  change  environment  future  ice  arctic  weather 
june 2008 by kjell
Thar She Blows: The Joys of Offshore Drilling
Drilling off alaska would speculatively drop a barrel from "$135 to $131." At the pump, "we might expect to see a drop in the price of a gallon of gas from around $4.00 to around $3.92 a gallon."
oil  alaska  anwr  future  politics  environment  pollution 
june 2008 by kjell
Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe's The Big Picture - Waxy.org
"In its first 20 days of existence, it's almost reached 1.5 million pageviews and over 1,500 comments for just 20 entries."
interview  journalism  photography  web  development  programming  future 
june 2008 by kjell
Unthinkable Futures
"Much that is happening today would have been dismissed as unbelievably bad science fiction only 15 years ago. The US with secret prisons torturing Muslims? Street sweepers in India with their own cell phones? Obesity a contagious disease? A trusted encyc
future  speculation  sci-fi  fun  predictions 
june 2008 by kjell
Salmon is disappearing. So don’t eat it.
"Wild Atlantic salmon are commercially extinct, and runs of Pacific salmon south of the Alaska panhandle are experiencing catastrophic collapses."
salmon  fish  environment  future  pollution 
june 2008 by kjell
The end of forward thinking | Sport | guardian.co.uk
"There were, in other words, no fixed positions: everything was relative."
football  future  history  soccer  sports 
june 2008 by kjell
the geometry of music (26 May, 2008, Interconnected)
"our dancing in clubs will alter the music which will alter our dancing, and the music and the visualisation/dancing will be translations of one another, and no way to tell which is first, because none is."
future  geometry  ideas  math  music 
june 2008 by kjell
Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat (Ted talks)
Ouch.
consumerism  cooking  environment  food  health  ideas  future 
june 2008 by kjell
The Other Night Sky
"We are now partially building ourselves a new night sky – and this surrogate astronomy is being put there so we can make international phone calls."
future  space  stars  sky  night 
may 2008 by kjell
Malcolm Wells: unsung green architect | materialicious
“If we are not careful we shall leave our children a legacy of billion dollar roads leading nowhere except to other congested places like those they left behind.” (Malcolm Wells made me want to be an architect).
architecture  malcolm-wells  underground  green  future  wow 
may 2008 by kjell
MoCo Loco: EXP08: UQAM Grad Show 2008
The dishwasher in this article is awesome.
design  fun  future  dishwasher 
may 2008 by kjell
Numbers Racket: Why the economy is worse than we know
"Transparency is the hallmark of democracy, but we now find ourselves with economic statistics every bit as opaque—and as vulnerable to double-dealing—as a subprime CDO."
usa  economics  future  crisis  money  statistics 
may 2008 by kjell
Olinda (Schulze & Webb)
A "prototype digital radio." Be sure to read the pdf of their pamphlet linked at the bottom, a fascinating example of speculative design.
2008  audio  device  hardware  innovation  interaction  radio  hci  future 
may 2008 by kjell
Cars and Starvation? - The Ornery American (Orson Scott Card)
"That's why we need an agricultural revolution just as badly as we need a fuel revolution. And for precisely the same reason, and on exactly the same schedule."
future  society  usa  criticism  rant  yes! 
may 2008 by kjell
Punch Brothers: In Front of God & Everyone on JamBase
"Music that hits you, music you love, goes way beyond words. That central indefinability can be uncomfortable for some, especially those that treat music as a lifestyle accessory, but that doesn't erase the bedrock truth of music's unnamable essence."
punch-brothers  chris-thile  music  new  future  strings  acoustic 
may 2008 by kjell
Doing More With Less
"We may debate the purpose of life, or whether it even has a purpose, but one thing we can all agree on is that we were not put on this Earth to work, work, work." I don't know if this is a joke, but...
work  life  balance  employment  welfare  future  philosophy  simplicity 
april 2008 by kjell
The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.
Absurd article on the tech wonders of Colombian drug cartels.
technology  drugs  smuggling  crime  wow  encryption  espionage  war  future 
april 2008 by kjell
High-tech bike parking in Tokyo
Insane underground bicycle parking structure.
bicycle  cycling  urban  future  transportation  robots 
april 2008 by kjell
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
culture  history  media  sociology  future 
april 2008 by kjell
A simple experiment by a Russian scientist to see if eating GM soya influenced the offspring of mice, could threaten the multi-billion dollar GM industry.
This suggests that the inserted genes are unstable and can change in different ways. It also means that they are creating new proteins—ones that were never intended or tested.
biotech  monsanto  genetics  gm  food  future  politics 
april 2008 by kjell
Cellphones - Third World and Developing Nations - Poverty - Technology
Mobiles as a fundamental human right? “People once believed that people in other cultures might not benefit from having books either.” Profile on Jan Chipchase and his phone use/design research.
technology  mobile  phone  world  development  future 
april 2008 by kjell
Aldous Huxley: The Mike Wallace Interview
Remarkably prescient interview with Aldous Huxley.
history  video  aldous-huxley  interview  society  politics  future 
april 2008 by kjell
World According to Monsanto
Monsanto's goal is to gain complete control over the production of food world–wide. Scary shit.
genetics  agriculture  development  corporate  economics  future 
april 2008 by kjell
Beyond reductionism: reinventing the sacred (Stuart A. Kauffman)
"I want God to mean the vast ceaseless creativity of the only universe we know of, ours."
atheism  complexity  religion  nature  beauty  future 
march 2008 by kjell
Burning Down the House
"This is not so much financial bad weather as financial climate change." It's actually kind of exciting to think we're about to relive the 30s depression. This guy thinks worse.
usa  politics  society  change  future  economics  collapse 
february 2008 by kjell
Why Lawrence Lessig is for Obama
And why voting for clinton would be a meaningless gesture.
2008  election  future  politics  war 
february 2008 by kjell
THC Oranges
Oranges genetically modified to be marijuana.
biology  marijuana  genetics  future  wow 
january 2008 by kjell
The Case Against Patenting Life
"A living organism is a creation of nature, not an invention of humans. Humans cannot make living things, because all living things make themselves. Humans cannot control living things because they constantly remake themselves according to principles be
politics  agriculture  genetics  copyright  law  future 
january 2008 by kjell
Core Principles
of Interaction design.
computers  hci  design  future  interface 
january 2008 by kjell
The 3-D printer that can print a 3-D printer.
All out of polylactic acid, an organic plastic-like substance derived from plant fibers.
design  future  hardware  machine  opensource  technology  3D  printer 
january 2008 by kjell
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Peak Money
"Not having the printing press, the Romans had to inflate their currency the old-fashioned way, by adding base metals to their gold coins."
cynicism  future  oil  finance  money  collapse  america 
november 2007 by kjell
This isn’t science fiction anymore
Strep. Mutans, a bacteria in your mouth that produces acid and decays your teeth, has been genetically engineered to instead produce alcohol and not decay your teeth. And it's entered into FDA trials on humans. Whoa.
science  future  genetic  engineering  human  whoa 
november 2007 by kjell
Raising a Brand-Free Kid :: Life :: thetyee.ca
"rarely can children engage in play or interaction that don't involve commercial or don't involve getting their parents to buy something"
advertising  kids  childhood  influence  culture  future 
october 2007 by kjell
Scientific American: The World Is Not Enough for Humans
bq. "The systematic destruction of the earth's natural and nature-based resources has reached a point where the economic viability of economies is being challenged," Achim Steiner, UNEP's executive director, said in a statement. "The bill we hand our chil
environment  earth  future 
october 2007 by kjell
BLDGBLOG: Architectural Sustainability
"I just don't think a "green" building should be mistaken for an environmental improvement; otherwise it's like mistaking fat-free pound cake for health food: deluded by the packaging, you eat tons of the stuff and you end up like Dom DeLuise."
building  criticism  green  architecture  future  environment 
august 2007 by kjell
Applied Minds, Inc.
Place to try and get a job when the time comes.
tech  craft  creative  agency  fun  work  future 
august 2007 by kjell
Margin Call
"The United States swindled itself. We became a nation of such greed-crazed clowns that we committed financial suicide in an orgy of self-deception."
gloom  future  finance  usa  money  economy 
august 2007 by kjell
Maglev Turbine
This is pretty awesome: levitated magnetically to erase friction the blades spin around and generate electricity. Looks like something from sim city 3000.
wind  power  electricity  engineering  future  technology 
july 2007 by kjell
TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo (video)
"this is a reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral that was done entirely computationally with images scraped from flickr." fantastically amazing. also, he used the word metaverse.
future  graphics  link  photography  software  network  web  world  flickr 
june 2007 by kjell
Fab @ Home
Machine fabrication, cheap and easy: "fabbers - machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop. This website provides an open source kit that lets you make your own simple fabber, and use it to print three dimensional objects."
3d  craft  design  engineering  free  future  industrial  innovation  making 
may 2007 by kjell
TED: Ideas worth spreading
TED have put up a sweet new design with all kinds of cool looking short lectures to watch.
creativity  culture  future  ideas  lectures  society  thinking  conscience 
april 2007 by kjell
Market (Urban Computing Spring 07)
"what happens when the digital begins to erode the power of proximity? What happens to the sense of neighborhoods when instantaneous ambient broadband connections drive the information costs involved in comparison shopping close to zero, and there’s no
cities  computing  urban  future  technology 
march 2007 by kjell
Bootstrapping the industrial age
Upcreation: "He made rough tools that made better tools, which then made tools good enough to make real stuff."
technology  society  culture  life  ideas  future 
march 2007 by kjell
The Sound of Interaction Design, S&W
Another fun presentation from Matt Webb, this time through his consultancy.
design  interaction  technololgy  matt-webb  fun  future 
february 2007 by kjell
The Agenda Restated
What kinds of things are going to need to get done as our current economic order, as Mr. Kunstler is so sure it will, collapses?
culture  society  economics  future  world  oil  collapse 
february 2007 by kjell
Neal Stephenson: Jipi and the Paranoid Chip
Man.
neal-stephenson  short  story  future  bots  technology 
january 2007 by kjell
Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2007
Scifi author and future focused web-head looks at how things are and where they may be going.
bruce-sterling  culture  future  global  world  trends 
january 2007 by kjell
« earlier      

related tags

3d ⊕  acoustic ⊕  activism ⊕  advertising ⊕  agency ⊕  aging ⊕  agriculture ⊕  ai ⊕  alaska ⊕  aldous-huxley ⊕  alternative ⊕  america ⊕  anarchism ⊕  anti-work ⊕  anwr ⊕  architecture ⊕  arctic ⊕  art ⊕  atheism ⊕  attention ⊕  audio ⊕  automation ⊕  automobile ⊕  balance ⊕  bank ⊕  beauty ⊕  bicycle ⊕  biology ⊕  biotech ⊕  book ⊕  bots ⊕  bruce-sterling ⊕  building ⊕  bush ⊕  camera ⊕  capitalism ⊕  care ⊕  cars ⊕  change ⊕  childhood ⊕  chores ⊕  chris-thile ⊕  cities ⊕  climate ⊕  clock ⊕  collapse ⊕  college ⊕  commerce ⊕  commons ⊕  community ⊕  complexity ⊕  computer ⊕  computers ⊕  computing ⊕  connection ⊕  conscience ⊕  conspiracy ⊕  consumerism ⊕  cooking ⊕  copyright ⊕  corporate ⊕  craft ⊕  craigslist ⊕  creative ⊕  creativity ⊕  crime ⊕  crisis ⊕  criticism ⊕  culture ⊕  currency ⊕  cycling ⊕  cynicism ⊕  design ⊕  development ⊕  device ⊕  digital ⊕  discourse ⊕  dishwasher ⊕  diversity ⊕  diy ⊕  documentary ⊕  doomandgloom ⊕  drugs ⊕  earth ⊕  ecology ⊕  economics ⊕  economy ⊕  education ⊕  election ⊕  electric ⊕  electricity ⊕  employment ⊕  encryption ⊕  engine ⊕  engineering ⊕  environment ⊕  espionage ⊕  essay ⊕  everyware ⊕  evolution ⊕  film ⊕  finance ⊕  fish ⊕  fitness ⊕  flickr ⊕  food ⊕  football ⊕  free ⊕  fuel ⊕  fun ⊕  future ⊖  genetic ⊕  genetics ⊕  geography ⊕  geometry ⊕  glass ⊕  global ⊕  gloom ⊕  gm ⊕  graphics ⊕  green ⊕  hardware ⊕  hci ⊕  health ⊕  history ⊕  home ⊕  human ⊕  humanism ⊕  ice ⊕  idealism ⊕  ideas ⊕  image ⊕  industrial ⊕  influence ⊕  information ⊕  infrastructure ⊕  innovation ⊕  insect ⊕  interaction ⊕  interface ⊕  internet ⊕  interview ⊕  iphone ⊕  iran ⊕  iraq ⊕  israel ⊕  jobs ⊕  journalism ⊕  kevinkelly ⊕  kids ⊕  law ⊕  lawn ⊕  lawnmower ⊕  learning ⊕  lectures ⊕  legislation ⊕  library ⊕  life ⊕  light ⊕  link ⊕  long-emergency ⊕  long-now ⊕  machine ⊕  machines ⊕  magazine ⊕  making ⊕  malcolm-wells ⊕  manipulation ⊕  manufacturing ⊕  marijuana ⊕  math ⊕  matt-webb ⊕  media ⊕  memory ⊕  mobile ⊕  money ⊕  monsanto ⊕  mountain ⊕  multitouch ⊕  music ⊕  nature ⊕  neal ⊕  neal-stephenson ⊕  nepal ⊕  network ⊕  new ⊕  night ⊕  obama ⊕  oil ⊕  oled ⊕  open ⊕  opensource ⊕  pedagogy ⊕  perception ⊕  philosophy ⊕  phone ⊕  photography ⊕  physics ⊕  poem ⊕  politics ⊕  pollution ⊕  porn ⊕  power ⊕  predictions ⊕  president ⊕  printer ⊕  privacy ⊕  programming ⊕  propulsion ⊕  publishing ⊕  punch-brothers ⊕  radio ⊕  rant ⊕  reality ⊕  religion ⊕  reuse ⊕  rivers ⊕  robbery ⊕  robot ⊕  robotics ⊕  robots ⊕  salmon ⊕  sci-fi ⊕  science ⊕  screen ⊕  sense ⊕  sex ⊕  short ⊕  simplicity ⊕  sky ⊕  smuggling ⊕  soccer ⊕  society ⊕  sociology ⊕  software ⊕  solar ⊕  space ⊕  speculation ⊕  sports ⊕  stars ⊕  statistics ⊕  stephenson ⊕  stewart-brand ⊕  story ⊕  strings ⊕  study ⊕  survival ⊕  takeover ⊕  tech ⊕  technology ⊕  technololgy ⊕  telco ⊕  thinking ⊕  tools ⊕  touchscreen ⊕  transportation ⊕  trends ⊕  ubicomp ⊕  ubiquitous ⊕  UMM:IS3221 ⊕  underground ⊕  university ⊕  urban ⊕  usa ⊕  usage ⊕  video ⊕  war ⊕  water ⊕  weather ⊕  web ⊕  weblog ⊕  weird ⊕  welfare ⊕  whoa ⊕  wifi ⊕  wiki ⊕  wind ⊕  wireless ⊕  work ⊕  world ⊕  wow ⊕  yes! ⊕  youth ⊕ 

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: