Thinking About Futurism | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
A collection of articles on the tricksy art of Futurism from—amongst others—Bruce Sterling, Annalee Newitz, and Matt Novak, creator of the Paleofuture blog.
Tags: prediction
Predicting the Future of Computing - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
An interactive timeline where we, the wise crowd, can add our predictions (although the timeline for the past, showing important technological breakthroughs, is bizarrely missing Cooke and Wheatsone’s telegraph).
Future Drama
Past predictions of the future in concept videos.
Future Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events
A speculative timeline of future history.
The Technium: Why the Impossible Happens More Often
A wonderful reminder by Kevin Kelly of the amazing interconnected world we live in, thanks to network effects.
Long Bets - The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years.
This is my prediction. If you think it’s wrong, challenge it. We shall then partake in a wager.
Forever Future | Sascha Pohflepp
The intriguing tale of a fictional archivist, storing past visions of the future in a storage facility that acts as a space ark.
He has put money in the bank which will pay for the space well beyond his lifetime. Each year he collects technological predictions that had been made for that year and conserves the ones that didn’t come true in the form of 35mm slides. The ship itself consists of a refrigeration unit to help preserve the slides, a slide projector and light box in case these technologies have become extinct by the time of its recovery, and a system to get power from the outside. In an annual ritual on April 11th Walker adds another box to the mission.
YouTube - BBC Horizon (1964) with Arthur C. Clarke (Part 1 of 2)
Past predictions of the future.
FuturICT: FuturIcT
An attempt to turn psychohistory into reality using a “Knowledge Accelerator.”
Google Prediction API - Google Code
An interesting, if necessarily somewhat complicated-looking, API from Google: analyse your user's past behaviour to predict future outcomes.
How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)
An entertaining missive from the future.
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash - Charlie's Diary
Charles Stross peers into his dilithium crystal ball and tells tales of the future as decided by Apple.
Paleo-Future - Paleo-Future Blog
A look into the future that never was. This stuff is right up my alley.
Welcome | The Signtific Lab | Massively Multiplayer Thought Experiments
An even more speculative version of The Long Bet. Given a supposition (e.g. "What will the world be like when custom satellites are as easy to design and launch as your own website is today?"), you can add to a list of positive and negative outcomes.
10^0, 10^1, 10^2 predictions
Brian and Josh are organising a Long Bet style gathering for the day before dConstruct. To participate, choose a timescale and enter your prediction. What an excellent way to kick-start some discussion.
dog or higher: Why blogging as we know it is over
Not if John keeps writing posts as good as this is, it's not.