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Peer-pressured into it, but it was quite fun to play with:Available at Cafe Press.The text reads: Being a scale for comparing, contrasting, and understanding the sundry manners in which the Apocalypse

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Earlier this year, the Dutch TV documentary group VPRO Tegenlicht ( Backlight ) interviewed me for a program they were doing on the future of Los Angeles. It was a wide-ranging discussion, and a somet

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On Thursday, October 21, CBC TV will show Surviving the Future, an hour-long documentary on both the major challenges facing us over the next half-century and the amazing technologies and social shift

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It's amazing what can happen in five years. Yesterday, October 13 2010, I delivered a talk on the political and ethical dilemmas surrounding geoengineering at the National Academy of Sciences. I spoke

Tags: research

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Canada's Business News Network had me on yesterday to talk about the future of media. You can watch the video here -- it runs about 9 minutes.My favorite moment came about 7 min 40 sec in, when asked

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Nature's Nicola Jones asked me to comment on Singularity University for an article she was putting together; that article is now available. She included a couple of brief observations of mine, but I t

Tags: policy regulation

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I was in Denmark last week, speaking at NEXT 2010. The subject... geoengineering (dun dun DUN).Here's the talk.When I watched a part of it, the sound was off-sync with the video, so fair warning.And f

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On July 1, I spoke in London at the Guardian Activate Summit 2010, a day-long collection of talks about the Internet and its possible futures. They've now started posting the talks, and lo and behol

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[Dale Carrico, at Amor Mundi, wrote a thought-provoking piece on whether geoengineering should be considered futurological greenwashing, covering aspects including the fuzziness of the concept, who'

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I spoke recently at an event in Rome entitled Futuro Sostenabilita (Futures and Sustainability, unsurprisingly). After the talk, the organizers took me aside for a brief video interview.Nice, sho

Tags: sustainability