This week, Jamais Cascio returns to Futurismic for his monthly column. This latest essay concerns disaster recovery programs, forward planning, and ‘awareness windows’ – the periods immediately after major disasters when people are most open to changes in policy and approach to mitigation.
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New Column: David Louis Edelman on the Digitisation of Objects
Futurismic is proud to present a guest column from David Louis Edelman, who is a journalist, programmer and web designer – and the author of a fresh new science fiction novel, ‘Infoquake’. David’s essay discusses the outcomes of our ongoing ability to digitise, well, pretty much everything.
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New Column: Jamais Cascio on Re-evaluating Futurism
I am extremely proud to present the first monthly column by Futurismic’s new regular contributor, the esteemed Jamais Cascio, a co-founder of Worldchanging.com as well as a prolific writer, blogger, public speaker and pundit. In it he discusses futurism as a way of thinking, and whether our current focus on the material products of science and technology is the best approach.
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New Column: Armchair Anarchist on Hawking’s Diaspora
AA holds forth on the debate sparked off by Stephen Hawking’s comments on the human race’s long term future – isn’t it time that all the futurists started pulling in the same direction?
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New Column: Armchair Anarchist on SF Conventions
I have been a science fiction reader from the age of nine. It eventually became my staple literary diet over the years, after a teenage phase of reading RPG spin-off novels. But it was only comparatively recently that I discovered the science fiction community – the world of ‘fandom’. Once I started reading SF magazines, and writing articles for SF publications (such as this esteemed website) I realised there was a lot more to it than just reading novels in the isolation of my flat. Late last year, I decided that it was time I attended my first convention.
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