Transcript of a keynote speech given by Charlie Stross to a tech consultancy open day. Exponential change, technological impacts, all the good stuff.

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"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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"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

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Q: How do you stop a big rock hitting your planet? A: Put another smaller rock in the way of it, of course.

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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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Professor Robert Mendelsohn's study, "Dynamic Forecasts of the Sectoral Impacts of Climate Change," utilizes results from climate impact analyses to project how future climate scenarios will

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