Future Shock (1972)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ghzomm15yE] Documentary based on the book with the same name by Alvin Toffler, narrated by Orson Welles.
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Future Studies
ESA: Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction
Science Fiction (SF) literature, artwork and films are works of imagination, but often contain some elements of plausibility, with the story revolving around
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Water on the Moon: Permanent Human Habitat Next
Nasa’s experiment last month to find water on the Moon was a major success, US scientists have announced. The space agency smashed a
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Bullets and Blogs: New Media and the Warfighter
5GW operations: Twitterrorism? From the US Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership and The SecDev Group comes “Bullets and Blogs: New Media
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The Political Roots of “Overhumanism”
This paper argues that the emergence of “overhumanism”* in Italy is a troubling development, both for Italian and international transhumanism, due to overhumanism’s
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Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging
It may be the ultimate free lunch — how to reap all the advantages of a calorically restricted diet, including freedom from disease
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Geoengineering: More Political and Moral Than Scientific?
The prospect of geoengineering continous to spark debate among scientists, environmentalists and politicians. Recently NPR carried an article on the topic: Engineering our
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Manning the barricades
Ill. “Blackouts and Cascading Failures of the Global Markets”, Scientific American. The credit crunch is dragging down the global economy and raising political
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Hacking the planet: The only climate solution left?
Click image to enlarge. Geoengineering schemes range from the low-tech, such as planting trees, to sci-fi, such as placing mirrors in orbit between
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The Next 100 Years: George Friedman
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12eNAovkDTM] New book released by George Friedman, CEO of Stratfor.
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