Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky Discuss the State of the World in 2009
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffOver at The WELL, Worldchanging Ally #1 Bruce Sterling is delivering his annual assessment of the world, and by all counts, 2009 is rife with material. Our own Jon Lebkowsky is moderating the ongoing interview/conversation, with ...
Lazy Dystopias
Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffRecently, I've been buried in a bumper crop of lazy dystopias. Now, I'm not against dystopian fiction as a means of social critique. Not at all. I think showing how present intentions may come to grief is ...
Andy Revkin: Climate Change Is Not the Story of Our Times
Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffAndy says, as we say here, it's all one big problem with millions of interlocking solutions needed to solve it: Q. Obviously climate change is the biggest story on your plate right now, but looking ahead what ...
Charlie Stross and Near-Future Fiction
Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffCharlie Stross says some very smart things about near-future fiction and the difference between techno-thriller science fiction and the sort of science fiction that is about predicting the present in ways that illuminate change: In my view, ...
Environment, Attitudes, and Behavior
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffDoes where we live shape how we think and act? This isn't the sort of thing I blog about regularly, but it strikes ...
Robot Snakes, Smart Farmers, Flying Ships and a Different Sort of Science Fiction
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffLots of stuff going on today (media interviews, writing to be done, etc.), but here are some tidbits to tide you over: Scandinavian scientists designing robotic snakes: The robot is designed to have a camera attached and move ...
Polar Agriculture
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffThe capital of Nunavut has nearly completed construction of the first industrial agricultural facility north of the arctic circle. Vertical farming in the arctic? This is, of course, April 1st, and we're not going to ...
How to Start Your Own Country
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffPaul Raven hooks us up with this primer on how to start your own country. For real: Step 1: Make sure you are eligible As tempting as it might be to declare your cubicle a sovereign state, customary ...
Strange and Happy: Science Fiction and the Bright Green Future
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffJason Stoddard proclaims the need for speculative fiction that is strange and happy: The world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. Just in the last few weeks, I’ve read about active corneal overlays for augmented reality ...