I’m currently at the the World Future Society meeting in San Francisco, and one of the highlights will be getting to ask science fiction author Ramez Naam some questions tomorrow afternoon.  I just finished the last book in his trilogy (Nexus, Crux, and Apex) on the plane on the way down. I was really just blown …
Every year I play a predictions game. It’s not really good futuring (after all, there remain no jetpacks). But I still like the game. So here goes an analysis of my results for 2012: Publishing and Creativity: There will be more attempts to make good franchises with rich multimedia (like Greg Bear and Neal Stephenson’s …
One of my favorite things to do each month is write my column for Futurismic (which has had a lot of great content lately, by the way). This month, I decided to talk about what the future needs from us. Another way to say that is “What should we be doing now to create a …
There are a lot of us being guardians at the gate. Environmentalists warn about species extinction and loss of the wonderful world we’re lucky enough to live on. Scientists and climatologists wring their hands about global warming. Governments worry about terrorism. We need the guardians at the gate, we even need to be the guardians. …
Most days, I still feel pretty invisible. I’m certainly not a famous science fiction writer, and no geek household name like Cory Doctorow or Charlie Stross that gets thrown around the interwebs regularly. But today is a very pleasant writer/futurist day from the point of being engaged in the bigger community conversation. ABCnews included quotes …
This is the third part of my futures post series for January 2010. The first one evaluated my results for 2009. The second talked about what I think will happen in 2010.  This is the “what could we do†post. There are a lot of things, but I’m going to pick four. Reform the way …
I’ve been listening to the health care debate for some time now. Health care is one of the top things we need to fix to improve our economy (the others are education, broadband, and – most importantly – preservation of the world we live in). I’m not enough of an expert to write intelligently on …
One: Twitter is actually a lot of fun. I suspect this is part of its popularity. Things to enjoy include putting a whole page worth of data into 140 characters (Haiku for modern times), hearing engaging snips about your friends’ days (and yes, what they had for breakfast is generally noise. But there are clever fun …
There was a meme flitting around Twitter this that included a link to an article on Technium about money following attention. The article is worth reading, by the way, even though it was posted last year. The main thing it says that if you get attention, then you are likely to get money. A similar …
Microsoft’s Tech Fest 2009: A Richness of Id
