Crunch Gear:
This is an interesting little futurist tease of a movie by MAYA that’s “a fast paced preview of a larger effort — I’m guessing where they fill in the gap at the end. The idea is that computing right now is at one of those thr (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Style:
Kurt Vile's "Childish Prodigy" is one of the year's most rewarding albums, a slice of retro-futurist Americana with layers of detail that reveal new wrinkles with each listen. Sometimes it's a guitar line that pokes out from (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their caree (Read More)
technabob:
In a recent article in The Sun, famous inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil makes a lot of bold claims about our future, saying that by 2029 humans will be able to halt and even reverse the effects of aging. and then we’ll live (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Quick -- how many games in the industry's long history can you name with a female lead? In her latest One More Go column, Margaret Robertson says the fact that we "run out of entries for the Great Gaming Leading Lady Pantheon (Read More)
Gizmodo:
That's right, aging, future-minded denizens of the 50s, video magazines are here! Almost. Come fall, Entertainment Weekly will feature the world's first video-screen-in-a-page advertisement, to sell you some TV shows. CBS and (Read More)
Gizmodo:
That's right, aging, future-minded denizens of the 50s, video magazines are here! Almost. Come fall, Entertainment Weekly will feature its first full-motion advertisement, to sell you on a technology called "television." CBS (Read More)
Boing Boing:
If you've been long-suffering under the assumption that games are created in a mashup of impalpable art and science, our latest high-res gallery on Offworld will prove you wrong, as we go inside the factory workshops where yo (Read More)
Newsweek National News:
Modern American households are coming to resemble those of centuries past, when it was the norm for multiple generations to live under the same roof. Census data show that the number of U.S. households with three or more gene (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Here's writer, futurist and all-round dude Karl Schroeder's talk from this year's O'Reilly Open Source Con: "The Rewilding: A Metaphor." In his inimical style, Karl first describes a semi-human future in which things as abstr (Read More)
Environment:
Solar power may bring us cleaner air and clearer skies. Nice, yes. But it’s money — not saving Mother Earth — that will catapult solar energy past dirty coal-fueled power plants.That’s the theory of Ray Kurzweil, a futuris (Read More)
Valleywag:
Google hasn't been shy about sharing its riches with select friends outside the company. And the number one rule of this tightly-knit group seems to be: spread the love. Which brings us to 23AndMe's new, very incestuous blimp (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Recently on Offworld we saw things living in places we didn't expect, like Taito's fantastic looking formerly Japanese-only vector-sharp retro-futurist mobile phone game Space Invaders Infinity Gene making a surprise visit to (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Guestblogger Marina Gorbis is executive director at Institute for the Future.At the end of workshops at the Institute for the Future we often ask participants to sum up their experience in one word or one sentence. Applying (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Wouldya lookit that! I've won the Libertarian Futurist's Society's Prometheus Award for my novel Little Brother! As with all the other awards LB has been up for this year, I'm even more honored by the company I'm in than the (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Moore's Law, the observation that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit has doubled every two years, explains the exponential growth in computing power that enables all the innovation we web-he (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell a story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our reader (Read More)
Engadget:
It doesn't take an Intel-salaried futurist to see that extended battery life and thin form factors are kind of a big deal going forward, while price and performance aren't getting swept away either -- it's been basically the (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Virtual reality has long promised a way to create an immersive illusion so convincing that you can tell the fake from the real. Futurist Ray Kurzweil says that virtual reality will make virtual travel possible. But not in the (Read More)
Gizmodo:
If I encountered Craig Mundie on the street, met his kind but humorless gaze and heard that slight southern drawl, I'd guess he was a golf pro—certainly not Microsoft's Chief of the future. As chief research and strateg (Read More)