The pace of change continues to increase. Â Someday I feel like if I simply blink I’m in the future, that this week is different than last week is different than last month is different than last year in a way that has never happened before. I suspect some of that change is about transformation. Â I …
My newest column up  Futurismic.com talks about the economy, space, and the future we may be creating (or not) out there. Yes, I’m excited about the Mars rover.  But I want more. Drop by Futurismic and take a look at Long Term and Long Distance Thinking.  And just as a reminder of what we can’t …
One of our futures is falling victim to the economy….. Read More »
Stop by Futurismic and take a look if you get a chance. This was a particularly tough article to write because the problem is so diffuse and our actual knowledge so hard to quantify. Climate is a complex system full of chaotic elements and strange attractors, including political strangeness. But the fact that it’s difficult …
New column up at Futurismic, in which I rant a bit about climate change Read More »
My latest column is up at Futurismic. This month I went searching for interactive books for my iPad, and found far fewer than I expected (except for kids, but I’m hungry for adult interactive content). I also found a little bit of hope that platforms are being developed which will help us out in the …
My newest column at Futurismic explores the power of crowds. Before I started researching this, I knew about crowd-sourcing used to get people to a particular place to do something interesting like perform the Thriller dance in mass in public, or for demonstrations (Tahrir Square). I knew about crowd-sourced translation projects.  I didn’t know …
The oil spill isn’t on the front page any more. But it hasn’t slowed down. Even though I have been paying some attention, I was surprised to see that BP has collected over one million gallons of oil so far. Yipes! We know they haven’t collected most of what’s gushing out. The live camera down …
There was a lot of news about cancer in my life in the last few weeks, so I chose that to write about for my Today’s Tomorrows column at Futurismic. I found it a really interesting topic to research – there’s a TON of material, and a lot of it gives conflicting advice. New information …
Latest Futurismic Column Up: Cancer and Science Fiction Read More »
My newest Futurismic column looks at longevity. This is feeding a bit off of a question I asked the twitterverse (and the land of Facebook) about whether or not people would want to live to be 150 (assuming no negative consequences to us or our progeny or the earth). Pretty much everybody said yes. I’ve …
This seems to be the moment for robot research for me. At least that’s the topic I picked for this month’s version of my column over at Futurismic, Today’s Tomorrows. Since I don’t like to let my column over there get to be longer than about 1,000 words, I couldn’t include everything. So for the …
First, Seattle Geekly does a great podcast. As I’m sure you can guess, they talk about all things Seattle that would interest the slightly more – well, geekly (gaming, conventions, science fiction and fantasy, anime, steampunk, other local events). I listen in when I get time. Even better, I visited them last week and we …
