C Sven Johnson @ 09-07-2008
For this edition of Future Imperfect, Sven Johnson has been grasping towards something which may or may not be there to grasp.
If you spend any amount of time straining through global news and pop culture, you’ll probably have had a similar sense of unseen patterns waiting to be discovered. But, Sven asks, what exactly occurs the moment before trend recognition? Continue reading “An Exercise in Trend Recognition”
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Paul Raven @ 12-09-2007
Many of the commonly tabled options for dealing with the incipient ecological crisis our planet is facing involve turning our backs on technology. One of the people taking the opposite position - namely that sustainability isn’t a zero-sum game - is Canadian science fiction author and foresight consultant Karl Schroeder, who talks about the potential of technologies like fusion power and vertical farming to avert catastrophe without destroying the potential of the human species in an interview at EcoGeek. [Vertical farm image borrowed from VerticalFarm.com]
And sometimes you just need to look at the bright side of things - for example, the rising cost of gasoline might reduce the incidence of obesity. It all ultimately boils down to personal lifestyle choices, though, at least as much as technology - so maybe we should think seriously about having less children.
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Paul Raven @ 13-08-2007
Canadian sf author Karl Schroeder has the sort of day job that anyone with a science fictional mindset would probably love to have - he’s a foresight consultant. Luckily, as internet denizens we can enjoy the fruits of his thinking without having to lash out on consultancy fees. Here’s his latest article for the consistently excellent Worldchanging blog, wherein Schroeder discusses the ecological footprint of humans as a species, and how we should approach our existence on Earth in much the same way as we would build a colony on another planet.
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