the sceptical futuryst

Image: Screenshot from Web of Fate A startup site called Web of Fate , launched in July 02008, crowdsources a timeline of users' predict...

Deals in commodities of the abstract sort Buys them in bulk but then he sells it short Talent, genius, love / even signs of affection He flo...

Today I was teaching Dator's introductory futures class (he's in France for ISU ), and the theme for this week is the influential t...

Some time ago, one Jose Garcia from a website called MemeTherapy emailed to ask me a couple of questions for a regular feature entitled ...

A couple of months ago, I got a haircut, for the first time in over a year. (Stay with me now, there's a perfectly good reason why I...

" The future of futurism: Down with the techno-utopians! Up with the techno-realists! " By Reihan Salam Slate , Thursday, June 29...

Since early May, I have been working with the Long Now Foundation , a nonprofit organisation dedicated to encouraging long-term thinking and...

The aggregation of individual opinions, and the collectivisation of many small efforts, is a massive lever for -- and site of -- social chan...