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Soldiers get wired for video, sound and more...spime-tastic!

Futurist matrix: where's your head at?

Jamais Cascio (ex-Worldchanging) rounds up the beef on synthetic biology

Jamais Cascio backs up my stance on people misinterpreting Hawking.

...where Jamais Cascio talks about 'artifact creation' as a promotional tool for futurism in the 'noughties. Food for thought.

Jamais Cascio strikes again. Food for thought.

Jamais Cascio podcasts the Futurismic column as an experiment.

Jamais Cascio muses on the potential of 'open source scenario planning' - this first installment asks what exactly it means to be 'open'.

"Continuous Partial Social Attention: the maintenance of multiple constant social connections through networked tools so as to maintain ongoing relationships, with links on the "awareness pe

"It's not impossible to find discussions of (for example) nanofactories or everyware sensor networks that assume that the systems will be buggy and prone to surprising and sometimes baffling fail

"How readily could [OPEC] nations deal with the loss of a big chunk of their income in a comparatively short time?" Jamais Cascio (as always) takes the long view.

"Until we reach a stage where nano-magical systems can rewire our brains at will, I don't see non-therapeutic brain implants ever becoming popular." Jamais Cascio shines a light on a classic

'Life caching' with your Series 60 mobile phone, plus the iPod breathaliser ... the world gets weirder and more wired as the days fly past.

"Forget home-printed assault rifles and field-produced drones. Forget gray, green and red goo. The real danger we will face in the time of molecular manufacturing is spam." Ye gods, will it

"Here's a question to muse about while awaiting the results of Tuesday's election in the US: what happens after the United States is no longer the dominant global power?" Jamais Cascio asks

"For me, this all boils down to a crisis of transparency. The disaster that we will face in a few days isn't that the machines will be hacked, it's that we won't know whether they have, and we wi

"The technologies of participatory culture can be catalysts for progress, expanding our capacity to understand the world and share that understanding with others. Such capabilities are sorely nee

"As Sven Johnson suggests, the important story here isn't about Second Life per se, but about the clash between a scarcity-based economy and an abundance-based world." Jamais Cascio on the C

"Designers who can put out new ideas quickly will do relatively well in the resulting economy of novelty, while designers that have counted on ongoing sales of existing designs to build up their

"One of the odder manifestations of the fabrication future may well revolutionize the world of medicine -- and quite possibly change how we eat and offer a new way to fight global warming, too.&q

"I will not use this product (STUFFSTATION DELUXE) to produce information processing devices that meet the conditions for self-awareness spelled out in the Phoenix Protocols of 2017 (UN DOC041202

"Here, then, is a first pass at a classification system for the varying types of "end of the world" scenarios." Frightening futurism from Jamias Cascio.

Jamais Cascio revives his geoethics article; it will be updated in the coming weeks.

"Doug Rushkoff has come up with a clever neologism: Sock Mobs. It refer to the gang of bogus names and voices -- usually the work of a single person -- that can swarm the comment sections of blog

Jamais Cascio on geoengineering and the Virgin Earth Challenge.

"...the ZPrinter 450 looks just amazing [...] if somebody had sent it to me as an example of an "artifact from the future," I would have believed them. This is a giant, sparkly, screami

"Our ability to handle simultaneous complexity is governed by what cognitive scientists call "fluid intelligence," commonly defined as the ability to find meaning in confusion and to so

"IBM researchers [...] assembled a simulated mouse cortical hemisphere (that is, a functional half of a mouse brain) on one of the smaller BlueGene/L supercomputers. They then ran the simulation.

"So are we headed to a world where the only stable jobs are those that absolutely require hands-on contact -- health maintenance, grooming, and the like? Or to one where wages even out across the

"It's a picture of a "subterranean void" on Mars, taken by the HiRISE ultra-high-resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The resolution on that photo is 25 centimeters per