Rodrigo Nino, CEO of Prodigy Network, spoke at PSFK CONFERENCE 2013 about building a crowd funded skyscraper in the city of Bogota, Colombia.
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Digital creative agency Playground knows that Glass is in its early days, but they imagine a future in which Glass helps with navigation, shopping, hobbies and much more. And according to Playground, “All of our examples are actually possible right now. Smartphones (batteries not included) have enough raw processing power to run this software today. If only current batteries were ten times more efficient and there was a robust native hardware API for Glass. Well, it’s coming. Sooner than we think.”
via the content brief
Interesting to get some concrete scenarios on possible uses of Google Glass.
Source: thecontentbrief
By EDUARDO PORTER, nytimes.com
If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried about climate change it would have to be insurance, right?
From Hurricane Sandy’s devastating blow to the Northeast to the protracted drought that hit the…
Does Every City Need A Chief Resilience Officer?
Emily Badger, theatlanticcities.comFor cities, developing a plan for “sustainability” no longer sounds like enough. The word carries with it an environmental connotation (we need to live alongside nature in a “sustainable” way). And the absence of sustainability…
400 PPM: Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Reaches Prehistoric Levels @ Scientific American via tcktcktck
Comment: That cannot be good.
Source: saveplanetearth
By Ariel SchwartzThe Hieroglyph project asks sci-fi writers to stop creating dark dystopias, and instead showed us visions of a better future, so that we work harder to get there.Science fiction has often predicted scientific advances, but what…
IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
Bruce Upbin, forbes.comIBM‘s Watson, the Jeopardy!-playing supercomputer that scored one for Team Robot Overlord two years ago, just put out its shingle as a doctor or, more specifically, as a combination lung cancer specialist and expert in the arcane…
AI which according to measurement being superior to doctors is now being diffused into the reality of health care… Can’t wait to hear the reactions!
Ariel Schwartz, fastcoexist.com
Robin Chase thinks that the sharing economy can put an end to all our problems. But how do you get the sharing economy to the developing world?The latest climate change statistics are beyond depressing—so upsetting that you might want to take a…
China emerges as new force in drone warfare - CBS News
China’s move into large-scale drone deployment displays its military’s growing sophistication and could challenge U.S. military dominance in the Asia-Pacific. It also could elevate the threat to neighbors with territorial disputes with Beijing, including Vietnam, Japan, India and the Philippines. China says its drones are capable of carrying bombs and missiles as well as conducting reconnaissance, potentially turning them into offensive weapons in a border conflict.
China’s increased use of drones also adds to concerns about the lack of internationally recognized standards for drone attacks. The United States has widely employed drones as a means of eliminating terror suspects in Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula.
Source: cbsnews.com
Planning for the future predicted by our current data leaves us vulnerable to unexpected derailments. Embracing uncertainty and preparing for the implausible gives us the chance to choose a better world
It is really interesting to find a defense for my area of futures thinking, in the Guardian. Normally I would see this as a sign of increasing acknowledgement of the relevance of the discipline. Judging from all other signals I unfortunately thinks this is most likely just another shot in the dark in the total future-present confusion we are currently experiencing. A phenomenon which comes from the breakdown of the basic mental models we used to understand the world for the last centuries.
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P A Martin Börjesson
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