One of the first presentations on Wednesday at ETech 09. Luebkeman, from Arup, talking about “Urban Futures”. It was an interesting presentation, and he was a great talker but… I still don’t know what the point of the presentation was. It all felt like an introduction to some...

More notes from the ETech 09 conference, this a talk by Alex Steffen of World Changing: One of the biggest choices we can make is how many children we have. Given the choice many women have fewer kids than they would otherwise. We could see peak population in our lifetime. Most of the people who wil...

The second and final event on the opening night of ETech 09 was a series of Ignite talks: very quick and brief talks. Jane McGonigal Mentioned the Superstruct game. Shows a video from 2019 as if from a company called Signtific Lab. What if custom satellites were as easy to launch as personal website...

Science fiction writer Charlie Stross has written about how the world today is so interesting and so volatile that it’s currently impossible to write about the near future. Anything one might forecast for, say, 15 years ahead is, he suggests, more unlikely to occur than at any other time in ou...

I like this photo and some of her others. I hope it's this one; stupid, slow, infuriating Flash interface makes it hard to link to stuff. Who commissions this crap (the website, not the photos)?...