Archive for the 'Futurist Posts' Category
Latest Today’s Tomorrows: Out of Destruction….
The pace of change continues to increase. 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. I [...]
2012 Predictions
Every year I play a predictions game. It’s not really good futuring since the world is way too strange for prediction except by true experts in a field, and I’m a generalist. But I still like the game. So here goes for 2012: Publishing and Creativity: I left this section in so I could re-predict [...]
Review of my 2011 Predictions
Every year I play a predictions game. It’s not really good futuring since the world is way too strange for prediction except by true experts in a field, and I’m a generalist. But I still like the game. So here’s what I said in brief form and how I think I did in 2011… Publishing [...]
One of our futures is falling victim to the economy…..
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 [...]
New Futurismic Column Posted: The Grand Lie
Things can’t go on as they are. I think that’s what the Occupy people are sensing, even if they aren’t very organized about it. For my Futurismic column this month, I wrote a bit about what I call The Grand Lie. Drop by and give it a read….
A Good Speech….
I am lucky enough to know one of the best technology futurists – Mark Anderson of SNS. He runs the best conference I’ve ever attended: FiRE, or the Future in Review (yes – it’s even better than science fiction cons). But that’s a different topic. He also publishes a newsletter, and a piece of that [...]
Readings, Columns, and Interviews
I got to read at Tuesday Funk while in Chicago week-before-last. This is thanks to Bill Shunn. One the web now: recordings of most of the readers. I highly recommend dropping in to watch a few – and don’t miss Bill’s poem. It’s short and sweet and he reads very well. If you want to [...]
New Futurismic Column: Interactive Storytelling
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 [...]
Writers who have created science fiction that could save the world
I’m at Norwescon, and one of the panels I was on posed the question, “Can science fiction save the world?” Much discussion ensued, most of it excellent. Conclusions: Maybe. It has (think of Orwell, Bradbury, etc). It’s often the stories and books that are written with no agenda to save the world that have an [...]
Robotics, Synchronicity, and Tales for Canterbury
I’ve been writing about robots this past year or so. While I was preparing for a speech and looking deeply at robotics, story ideas fell out the air around me as I realized how much good work is happening in robotics. One of those stories is “The Robot’s Girl” which was published in Analog last [...]
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