Futurism

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• 7 Wonders Of The Modern Shipping World

  
  WebUrbanist — Authority: 670
  For those who think that the glory-days of boat-building are over, think again – for there are modern-day Brunels , eager to build the next generation of ocean-faring superstructures. Here are 7 wondrous examples of epic modern ship design, from passenger liner to man o’ war, from staggeringly large to stealthily ...
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• Is this the future they promised us?

  
  Applesauce — Authority: 441
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjUVIIYptE
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• FN/NaPodPoMo9 / Rethink Meat

  
  Futurism Now Radio — Authority: 118
  Meat consumption might be destroying the planet and killing us.  It’s certainly not green, so maybe we should think about it more before using it so much.  And Americans consume more meat than anyone on the planet.   It’s contributing to climate change, to terrible environmental practices, pollution and our ...
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• The Church of the Future: Urban, Minority and Progressive

  
  Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor — Authority: 117
  The church of the future resides in an urban setting, consists of multiple minorities, and espouses progressive social values, according to two recently-released reports. While most church futurists have focused on church models (i.e., house churches vs. megachurches) in their predictions of the shape of church in ...
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• Inspiration Monday: FUTURISM

  
  Hatch: The Design Public Blog — Authority: 126
  I picked this book up at one of the best used bookstores I’ve ever visited, ABCD in Camden Maine (though my Great Uncle Frank Piskor, a huge bibliophile, used to say they had “New York prices.”). It’s a MoMA book from 1961, and Uncle Frank was right; it was $6.50 new, and $75 used forty years later. I’m ...
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• FN/NaPodPoMo8 Green Justice

  
  Futurism Now Radio — Authority: 118
  Climate change will be very much about justice in the years and decades to come.  This is Episode8 of the podcasting marathon known as Napodpomo.  Green money–Green jobs–Green greed–the Jolly Green Giant Known as Copenhagen — Is climate change stalling and finger-pointing  green insanity?  Not everything ...
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• ‘Space Elevator’ Wins $900,000 NASA Prize

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 143
  From New Scientist : A laser-powered robotic climber has won $900,000 in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space. Building a space elevator would require anchoring a cable on the ground near Earth’s equator and deploying the other end thousands of kilometres into space. The ...
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• Blown To Smithereens: The Secret Story Of Survival Town

  
  WebUrbanist — Authority: 670
  One pleasant spring day in 1955, an atomic bomb blasted an American city into oblivion. This is the story of Survival Town, a purpose-built collection of structures, buildings, even mannequins designed to measure the effects of an atomic weapon used against urban centers. Its optimistic name notwithstanding, ...
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• The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English

  
  Twice Filtered — Authority: 418
  John McWhorter, in World Affairs Journal: Linguistic death is proceeding more rapidly even than species attrition. According to one estimate, a hundred years from now the 6,000 languages in use today will likely dwindle to 600. The question, though, is whether this is a problem. Who argues that we must preserve ...
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• Looking back 20 years after the the fall of the Walls of Berlin – Communism is gone – the new competitors are: INTERNATIONAL CAPITALISM AND STATE CAPITALISM – says George Soros – The Chinese State rather then the US consumers will be the new World Economy

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 481
  Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, Japan Times online. By GEORGE SOROS – No alternative to a new world architecture. This 20 years after the fall of the Walls of Berlin. NEW YORK — Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world faces another stark choice between two fundamentally ...
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• What a shame – will US Jobs again hold back US independence?

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 481
  What a shame – will US Jobs again hold back US independence? With the US incapable or unwilling to act on climate, will Wind Energy Stimulus input translate into holding back from using Chinese turbines that will come with Chinese money in order to develop US wind? GM went bankrupt because it did not make cars in a ...
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• FN/NaPodPoMo7 / The Brutal Truth

  
  Futurism Now Radio — Authority: 118
  The Brutal Truth about climate change is this:  it’s much worse, and much more threatening to our future, than the public thinks it is.  In fact, it has scientists scared.  Yet the political response is to “work with business” and “work with Republicans” and conservative Democrats like Joe Lieberman to ...
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• Rohit Talwar’s “Top 10 Forecasts for Science and Technology in 2010″

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 519
  Check out Rohit Talwar’s “Top 10 forecasts for science and technology in 2010″ over at Troy Media . More business futurists are getting hip to transhumanist and singularitarian ideas. Here are the 10 forecasts: 1. The Rise of Citizen Science 2. NBIC-convergence 3. Synthetic Biology 4. ...
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• Mind Control with Sound and Light

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 573
  From BoingBoing : From a slew of new brainwave toys and bionic monkeys to advanced brain scans and wireless neuro-implants that will soon enable paralyzed people to remotely operate computers with their minds, the gap in the human-machine interface is closing. But while mind-reading gets all the glory, ...
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• FN/NaPodPoMo6 / History of GW Science

  
  Futurism Now Radio — Authority: 118
  The history of the discovery of global warming/climate change goes back much farther in time than people think.And no, global warming was not invented by  Al Gore.  NASA scientist James Hansen didn’t discover it either, despite his 1988 testimony before Congress. Global warming theory has been around for a long ...
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• We knew it for decades – Nuclear Power is simply a distraction that wastes capital and manpower and solves nothing. The answer is in NEGAWATTS! We are reminded of this today by Leon Di Marco in a letter to The Financial Times.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 481
  NEGAWATTS!  NOT NUCLEAR POWER We are reminded of this today by Leon Di Marco in a letter to The Financial Times. Nuclear power is simply a distraction that wastes capital and manpower. Published in The Financial Times: November 6 2009. From Mr Leon Di Marco. Sir, Your eminently sensible editorial ...
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• Oh! Your girl conceptualized this: a Sun-Ra tribute. Pick it up?

  
  ree raw reeraw re rea re: ree raw — Authority: 434
  Oh! Your girl conceptualized this: a Sun-Ra tribute. Pick it up ?
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• FN/NaPodPoMo5 / Science & Tech News

  
  Futurism Now Radio — Authority: 118
  This is NaPodPoMo5, the fifth installment of Futurism Now’s podcast marathon.Covered in this episode:  Deep-sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change.Trees in the desert, say the Sahara, might solve climate change?  Well, it’s a plan.Liquid Granite and the hunt for a carbon-neutral cement, Foldable 3D Solar ...
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• Tim Tyler’s “Ending the Ice Age”

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 519
  I’ve decided to delete my original post on ending the Ice Age because of substantial uncertainty on the transaction costs and the possibility of catastrophic global warming through methane clathrate release. Though I would like to live on a warmer planet, the possible difficulty of the transition strongly ...
  6 days ago

• FN/NaPodPoMo4 / News Update

  
  Futurism Now Radio — Authority: 118
  News from Futurism Now, and episode #4 of the NaPodPoMo podcast marathon.What are Senators up to on the climate bill? Senate Republicans Stall Climate Legislation!  Story here.Panic at 2:00 am!   Where is the ice?Utilities Drop Plans for Big Stone II Coal Plant, clearing the way for wind power.   Great news!Al ...
  6 days ago

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