Futurism

Striking Futurist Paintings

Posted 05.15.2012

The Futurists of the early 20th century were known for their desires to demolish museums, libraries and all other sites receiving historical reverence...

'Blade Runner' Futurist's Art Exhibiiton

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...

The Future Is No Place for Fear

Zach Puchtel | Posted 05.07.2012

Zach Puchtel

"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.

Who Cares If My Child Can't Tie His Shoes?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.16.2012

Lisa Belkin

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?

WATCH: A Different Kind Of 'War On Christmas'

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...

Futureview: A Roadmap for Growth and Prosperity

Daniel Burrus | Posted 01.16.2012

Daniel Burrus

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.

11 Awesome Visions Of The Future

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...

WATCH: Microsoft Envisions The Future

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...

Paco Peregrin: "Beautiful Monster"

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 10.10.2011

Evelyne Politanoff

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Is Nostalgia Dead?

Tom Mallory | Posted 09.26.2011

Tom Mallory

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 ...

PHOTOS: Architecture Of The Future?

Adel Zakout | Posted 02.27.2012

Adel Zakout

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...

Embracing Our Creative Imagination To Solve The Global Crisis

Marilyn Schlitz | Posted 11.17.2011

Marilyn Schlitz

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.

New York Considering Erecting Storm Barriers For Future Flooding

| 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...

Futurist: Robots Can Restore Michigan Economy

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...

Credentialism and Higher Ed

Anya Kamenetz | Posted 05.25.2011

Anya Kamenetz

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...

Long-Term Thinking About Future Health: Seven Trends That Should Concern Us

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard (RJ) Eskow

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.