the sceptical futuryst

Photo by Matthew Abbott for the New York Times I wrote this piece in the first week of January. It appears in the just-published Summ...

Introducing the sixth branch of the American military, founded in 02029. What happens when the world's richest and most powerful c...

This is a small-scale sculpture in Berlin created by artist  Isaac Cordal that has gone viral in the past few days, under the caption ...

An older, sadder Barack Obama looks back on the Copenhagen climate conference Today marks the beginning of the United Nations climate confer...

TH.2058 (02008) installation at the Tate Modern art museum, London by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster | Image via Rob Brennan 's Flickr pho...

Wanted poster, International Criminal Court: Future Generations Division FoundFutures artifact produced for " Hawaii 2050 " kic...

Flood (dir. Tony Mitchell, 02007); image captured from DVD ch. 13 Yesterday, almost a year after my spies in London spotted a BBC News rep...

Last week, here in London, I went for a rather remarkable walk. And While London Burns is an "operatic audio tour" in three acts,...

...and the WWF might kick your ass. On the last trip I took from Hawaii to the mainland U.S., at the end of February, I took the above snaps...

"The opinion that art should not be political is itself a political opinion." ~George Orwell Some people find the combination of a...