Striking Futurist Paintings
The Futurists of the early 20th century were known for their desires to demolish museums, libraries and all other sites receiving historical reverence...
The Futurists of the early 20th century were known for their desires to demolish museums, libraries and all other sites receiving historical reverence...
Posted 05.10.2012
Science fiction has often held a mirror to our society in order to teach us about our evolution (or regressive behavior). We probably owe many of our...
Zach Puchtel | Posted 05.07.2012
"Futurists" have been trying to educate the masses for years, with undeniable evidence that computers will, in the foreseeable future, develop a consciousness much like ours.
Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.16.2012
My father was a whiz with an abacus. His father wrote with an inkwell pen. My sons use their laptops to take notes, write letters, and do math. Is our job as parents to raise our children to master the world we grew up in or the one we can't fully envision yet?
Posted 12.22.2011
At this point, it's all but inevitably that the Robot Uprising will soon extend to all things we hold sacred, including (but not limited to) the holid...
Daniel Burrus | Posted 01.16.2012
We are in a time of massive, technology-driven, transformational change, pregnant with opportunity. Realize it or not, we have an unprecedented ability to create new products, new services, new markets, and new careers.
The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 01.11.2012
Projectors and lasers and smartphones, oh my! It might still be 2011 (barely), but that hasn't stopped a whole bunch of technology companies, innov...
The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 12.27.2011
Microsoft's Office team has released a video of what they think the future of computing will look like. Check it out: The video, entitled "Producti...
Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 10.10.2011
Tom Mallory | Posted 09.26.2011
A couple of weeks ago, I came across a most galvanizing article by Niklas Maak - a writer and arts editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The ...
Adel Zakout | Posted 02.27.2012
The 1926 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis by Fritz Lang opens with a stunning sequence of machinery in motion, followed by an anonymous workers' crowd de...
Marilyn Schlitz | Posted 11.17.2011
By harnessing our inner capacities, though meditation, contemplation, prayer and time in nature, we can cultivate the resilience to navigate the challenges of our outer world.
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Posted 05.25.2011
MANHATTAN -- The city is seriously considering a proposal to erect huge storm surge barriers as part of a comprehensive waterfront plan meant to pro...
AP | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's economy, battered over the past decade by hundreds of thousands of lost manufacturing jobs, could surge again i...
Anya Kamenetz | Posted 05.25.2011
Probably the most common question I get about the future of higher ed is "But what about credentials?". In the words of Ezra Klein: "So in Kamenetz's...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
Seven current healthcare trends include doctors leaving the public system, a shortfall in primary care, underutilization of medical treatment, "superbugs," virtual health care, climate change, and radical self-redesign and enhancement.
Posted 05.15.2012