The ‘Autonomous Zone’ In Seattle as a Harbinger Of America’s Future
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone is a book by the anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey. This is how it seems to be
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China and global epidemic modeling
The narrowing gap between modeled and virologically confirmed cases is important for several reasons. First, it shows that the massive public health effort
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Speculating on the 2024 U.S. presidential election: The final transhumanist left/right showdown?
U.S. presidential elections are scheduled on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Following that schedule, the 2024 elections are to be
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Killing General Suleimani
This insurance plan against a remote contingency was spelled out in a 2000 article published by the prestigious Chinese Society for Strategy and
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Archive
A sample of previous posts on Plausible Futures Newsletter: 5GW and Norwegian Terrorism (co-published in Interesting Times Magazine) The Perfect Storm and Black Swan Theory
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Why you already live in a cyberpunk future
December 17, 2013 Our perception of a cyberpunk future is shaped by the foresight of luminaries like William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Bruce
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Fantastic Voyage vs Das Boot
New Scientist magazine carries a nice article this week about the difficulties of propelling things on the micro- and nano- scales. The online
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Sci-Fi Weekly review Plausible Futures
The folks over at Sci-Fi Weekly has written an article about this blog. Billing itself as a “news service for the future studies
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SKorea draws up code of ethics for robots
South Korea, at the forefront of the drive to develop robots which can do anything from guarding the border to caring for the
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