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Governance in the Anthropocene, a SXSW Proposal 23 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
It's the big question for the century: how do we manage human society across the planet as the planet itself becomes increasingly hostile? Geophysical systems are complex, slow (in human terms), and d...
Ambiveillance 20 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
One of the first rules one is taught as a futurist-in-training is to avoid "normative scenarios" -- forecasts that describe what you want to see, even when the signals and evidence at hand make the sc...
Call for Papers: The Ethics of Geoengineering 30 Jul 2013 | 02:03 am
I've been asked to serve as guest editor for an upcoming edition of the Journal of Evolution and Technology, a peer-reviewed electronic journal published by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Techn...
The CIA Wants To Control the Climate!!!!11! 18 Jul 2013 | 05:20 am
No, not really. But that's the conclusion people are getting from a story published initially at Mother Jones, and picked up around the web. The CIA -- along with NASA, NOAA, and the National Academi...
Hackers, Griefers, and Futurists 16 Jul 2013 | 11:43 pm
Apropos of griefing Glass, my most recent piece for Co.Exist is now up: "To [Forecast] The Future Of Technology, Figure Out How People Will Use It Illegally". (The actual title uses "predict" not "for...
Google Glass Ten Second Review 16 Jul 2013 | 11:33 pm
I got a chance to play briefly with IFTF's new Google Glass device (see accompanying photo). Some quick notes: As the photo illustrates (and as the manual apparently states), Google Glass devices do ...
Reinvent Climate Management (the movie) 24 Jun 2013 | 10:18 pm
Here's the complete "Reinvent Climate Management" discussion from June 18, 2013. Starring Pete Leyden, me, David Brin, Dawn Danby, Gil Friend, Oliver Morton, Ramez Naam, and Alan Robock.
Reinvent This 18 Jun 2013 | 12:15 am
On Tuesday, June 18 (tomorrow, if you're reading this the day I post it), I'll be leading a roundtable discussion on "reinventing climate management" over at ReInventors.net. It will convene via Googl...
The End of the World As We Know It (and I'm rather annoyed) 29 May 2013 | 12:39 am
Fast Company's Co.Exist just put up my latest piece for them: "The End Of The World Isn’t As Likely As Humans Fighting Back." It's the latest in my series of short essays under the working title "Stop...
Crime and Punishment 29 May 2013 | 12:28 am
Co.Exist has put up a short video from my discussion at their recent Innovation Uncensored event in NYC. In this video, I talk about why thinking about misuses of technologies is a good way of discove...
