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http://www.openthefuture.com/2007/06/metaverse_roadmap_report_1.html

Metaverse Roadmap Report websnapr

"... it's the first attempt to synthesize current and emerging social, economic and technological trends around virtual worlds, immersive networks, and ubiquitous information."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070521094519.htm

New Computer Model Predicts Crowd Behavior websnapr

"The goal of this project is to develop a reusable and behaviorally-founded computer model of pedestrian movement and crowd behavior amid dense urban environments, to serve as a test-bed for expe
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http://www.openthefuture.com/2007/05/outsourcing_the_future.html

Outsourcing the Future websnapr

"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
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http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/world_without_oil_alternate_reality_game_with_a_conscience/

‘World Without Oil’: Alternate Reality Game With a Cons ... websnapr

"World Without Oil asks what would happen if we ran out of oil on April 30, 2007. The month-long alternate reality game, aimed at raising awareness of and promoting discussion about oil dependenc
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/longnow/index.htm

What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen websnapr

"Important note for those surfing this talk out of context :-) I still regard the Singularity as the most likely non-catastrophic outcome for our near future." Precis/slides from Vernor Ving
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http://lifeboat.com/ex/neurotechnology.and.society

Neurotechnology and Society (2010-2060) websnapr

"By viewing recent history as a series of techno-economic waves ushered in by a new low-cost input, it is possible to see that neurotechnology will lead to substantial economic, political, and so
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http://www.girardin.org/fabien/blog/2007/01/25/comparing-ais-failures-with-ubicomps-visions

Comparing AI’s Failures with Ubicomp’s Visions websnapr

Via Captain Bruce, a link fest that I haven't yet taken the time to go through thoroughly - but it looks like it is loaded with goodies.
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http://torontosun.com/news/othernews/2007/01/02/3134226-sun.html

Here's looking at you, kid websnapr

What will the future hold for the first-borns of 2007? The Toronto Sun talks to Schroeder and Sawyer (and others) for some heavy futurism. Put my name down for an implanted computer!
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http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=39308

James Gunn on the power of science fiction thinking websnapr

"I believe SF thinking has the potential to save the world, not in specific ways [...] but in the more important general ways. So it isn't any one thing, but our human outlook that can save the w
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004823.html

Nanotechnology and the Developing World: The Regulatory ... websnapr

Worldchanging, as always, has the reasoned and sensible skinny on regulating an exciting but potentially hazardous new industry.
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http://www.openthefuture.com/2006/08/open_taxonomy.html

Open Taxonomy websnapr

Jamais Cascio muses on the potential of 'open source scenario planning' - this first installment asks what exactly it means to be 'open'.
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http://www.openthefuture.com/2006/07/tomorrow_makers.html

Tomorrow Makers websnapr

...where Jamais Cascio talks about 'artifact creation' as a promotional tool for futurism in the 'noughties. Food for thought.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save

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