Events matching tag "future"
Saturday, March 8
I'm not a reader. I somehow made it through school (including time in a philosophy PhD program) without being a reader. This fact has made me apologetic, embarrassed, and above all thankful for the explosive growth of on…
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Ed Castillo
Whose job is it to imagine the way that technology functions in society? Over the past century, science fiction has played a crucial role in imagining what the future looks like and what devices / technology make each im…
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Yashoda Sampath
Quantified Self only gets someone the data. It's descriptive, not prescriptive: "All these numbers, now what do I do?" Now imagine, from your data, you could learn exactly what your body needed, and most critically, how …
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Chris Matthews
What are the 100 objects that future historians will pick to define our 21st century? A javelin thrown by an 'enhanced' Paralympian far further than any normal human? Virtual reality interrogation equipment used by polic…
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Adrian Hon
It is the vanity of every age to believe they live at the turning point of human civilization. Having said that, we must acknowledge we are living at the great turning point of human civilization. Technology isn't just …
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Byron Reese
Digital painting is everywhere. Do you finger-paint on your iPad? Are you overly attached to your Wacom tablet? Do you dream in HSB? You might be a digital painter. Early adopters of digital painting have been creatively…
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Leah Davis
Sunday, March 9
Imagine a future where there's no distinction between code and data. Where computers are operated by programming languages that work like human language, where knowledge and data are built in, where everything can be com…
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Stephen Wolfram
With the advancement of wearable and soon, implantable technologies, patients’ health will be monitored by computers 24/7. What will this mean for the doctors of 2025 and how will patients interact with their personal he…
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Delian Asparouhov
Monday, March 10
We are entering a period where the intersection of exploding content and limited consumer attention will intersect, creating an economic shockwave that will render many marketing programs unsustainable. In some markets, …
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Mark Schaefer
The tech world’s catch phrase du jour is “disruption.” But what’s being disrupted? Uber disrupts taxis, AirBnB disrupts hotels, Twitter disrupts mainstream media, but are these changes substantive or superficial? Beyond …
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Aengus Anderson, Micah Saul
An app on your phone knows you’re getting married before you do. Your friends’ tweets can help data scientists predict your location with astounding accuracy, even if you don’t use Twitter. Soon, we’ll be able to know h…
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Patrick Tucker
The studios have slowly but surely abandoned movie development, finance and production. Their physical plant is no longer necessary and the last bastion of their control over business - the collective monopoly on distrib…
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Janet Brown, John Sloss, John Pierson, Ross Fremer, Ryan Werner
Science fiction explores our wildest dreams and biggest fears about the future of technology, spurring us on to greater ideas and grander possibilities. But sci-fi is equally concerned with the challenges of the present.…
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Daniel Suarez, Warren Ellis
As the technology becomes a natural augmentation of our physical relationships, virtual interactions are becoming less of a substitute for physical proximity and rather a mechanism to extend and augment intimacy (play/en…
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Carl Hastrich, Heather Vescent Schlegel, Karen Oikonen, Zahra Ebrahim
Science fiction explores our wildest dreams and biggest fears about the future of technology, spurring us on to greater ideas and grander possibilities. But sci-fi is equally concerned with the challenges of the present.…
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Daniel Suarez
Tuesday, March 11
We spend around a third of our lives at work – whether that’s in an office, in a coffee shop, or in your living room, the right work environment can dramatically impact productivity and happiness. Companies like Google, …
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Scott Chacon
Over the past decade the record industry has seen a monumental shift in the way creators make and distribute their product to fans. The same thing is about to happen to the design and manufacturing of all physical goods.…
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Zach Kaplan
There are apps on your phone that can tell you more about your surroundings than your car. Think about that- the complex piece of machinery and technology that takes you from place to place is almost incapable of allowin…
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Helen Xiao, Pradyumna Mishra, Steve Schwinke, Trak Lord
Bruce Sterling's annual closing rant at SXSW Interactive is always unexpected, invented on the fly, a hash of trends, trepidations, and creative prognostication. In 2013, Sterling focused on "disruption" (one of the big …
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Bruce Sterling
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