Comments on: Kelly and Eno’s Unthinkable Futures – ready-made science fiction scenarios http://futurismic.com/2008/06/26/kelly-and-enos-unthinkable-futures-ready-made-science-fiction-scenarios/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: gmoke http://futurismic.com/2008/06/26/kelly-and-enos-unthinkable-futures-ready-made-science-fiction-scenarios/comment-page-1/#comment-15270 gmoke Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:03:05 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3533#comment-15270 * Computer screens (both CRT and flat screens) are found to be dangerous to the health. Working at a computer is viewed as a toxic job. Transfer that idea to cell phones and you just might have reality, given the number of studies that seem to show deleterious health effects. * Computer screens (both CRT and flat screens) are found to be dangerous to the health. Working at a computer is viewed as a toxic job.

Transfer that idea to cell phones and you just might have reality, given the number of studies that seem to show deleterious health effects.

]]> By: Tom Marcinko http://futurismic.com/2008/06/26/kelly-and-enos-unthinkable-futures-ready-made-science-fiction-scenarios/comment-page-1/#comment-15260 Tom Marcinko Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:05:18 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3533#comment-15260 I bookmarked that post and have been turning it over in my mind ever since. My favorite, from Brian (and yeah, I think we're close to this): <blockquote>* News is understood to be a creation of our attention and interests (rather than "the truth") and news shows are redesigned as "thinktanks," where four interesting minds from different disciplines are asked the question, "So what do YOU think happened today?" * Later, four uninteresting minds (chosen from the pages of Ordinary People magazine) are asked the same questions. </blockquote> I bookmarked that post and have been turning it over in my mind ever since. My favorite, from Brian (and yeah, I think we’re close to this):

* News is understood to be a creation of our attention and interests (rather than “the truth”) and news shows are redesigned as “thinktanks,” where four interesting minds from different disciplines are asked the question, “So what do YOU think happened today?”

* Later, four uninteresting minds (chosen from the pages of Ordinary People magazine) are asked the same questions.

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