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5th March 2010

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Confession: I’m kind of a sucker for fortune cookies. Especially this one.

Confession: I’m kind of a sucker for fortune cookies. Especially this one.

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5th March 2010

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Krugman + sci-fi + THE FUTURE

From The New Yawkah:

“Krugman explained that he’d become an economist because of science fiction. When he was a boy, he’d read Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ trilogy and become obsessed with the central character, Hari Seldon. Seldon was a ‘psychohistorian’—a scientist with such a precise understanding of the mechanics of society that he could predict the course of events thousands of years into the future and save mankind from centuries of barbarism. He couldn’t predict individual behavior—that was too hard—but it didn’t matter, because history was determined not by individuals but by laws and hidden forces. ‘If you read other genres of fiction, you can learn about the way people are and the way society is,’ Krugman said to the audience, ‘but you don’t get very much thinking about why are things the way they are, or what might make them different. What would happen if?’”

I think I like this Paul Krugman guy.

Tagged: Paul Krugmaneconomicsscience fictionthe future

29th January 2010

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Officials are pushing to deploy state-of-the-art rail rockets. Next stop: the future.
Popular-Science-reading childhood Andy, meet public-transportation-enthusiast adult Andy. You guys are both gonna love this. (via Colin)

Tagged: transportationtrainstechnologythe future

27th January 2010

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The future always wins.

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23rd January 2010

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Even better, “THE JOY OF NOT BEING SOLD ANYTHING NO LONGER BEING NOVEL”
iteeth: … :fuckyouverymuch:

We welcome January.

Even better, “THE JOY OF NOT BEING SOLD ANYTHING NO LONGER BEING NOVEL”

iteeth: … :fuckyouverymuch:

We welcome January.

Tagged: capitalismthe futurejoy

14th January 2010

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this is the time

tumblelikeyougiveadamn:

the worst that can happen really isn’t that bad. the best that can happen is that your life will never be the same again. and no matter what, you’re going to learn a hell of a lot about yourself and what you’re actually capable of. and i think it’s a lot.

take a risk. make a leap. here, we can do it together.

Word.

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8th January 2010

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I see humans as rather like the first photosynthesisers, which when they first appeared on the planet caused enormous damage by releasing oxygen — a nasty, poisonous gas. It took a long time, but it turned out in the end to be of enormous benefit. I look on humans in much the same light. For the first time in its 3.5 billion years of existence, the planet has an intelligent, communicating species that can consider the whole system and even do things about it. They are not yet bright enough, they have still to evolve quite a way, but they could become a very positive contributor to planetary welfare.
— That’s one way to look at I guess … I’m intrigued by James Lovelock’s “optimistic pessimist” perspective. Read it in the New Scientist.

Tagged: environmentalismthe future

6th January 2010

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I wonder, when will “2010” stop feeling like the future?

(I hope never)

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25th December 2009

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Tagged: lilaxmasthe future

16th December 2009

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The hipster Holy Grail: a bike that talks to your iPhone.
It’s sort of like ‘Biking 2.0’ — whereby cheap electronics allow us to augment bikes and convert them into a more flexible, on-demand system

The hipster Holy Grail: a bike that talks to your iPhone.

It’s sort of like ‘Biking 2.0’ — whereby cheap electronics allow us to augment bikes and convert them into a more flexible, on-demand system

Tagged: bikehipsteriphonetechthe future