#future (25 links)
- 2026 thread of solar-and-storage opinions solarchase.substack.com
A great jumping off point for more in-depth research.
- The unraveling of fictions - by Azeem Azhar exponentialview.co
These fictions were functional adaptations to real constraints. The job, the credential, the expert, each solved a genuine problem in a high-friction world. But the constraints changed. And now the adaptations are decaying.
Via leebryant.
- Knowledge Navigator en.wikipedia.org
- A Protopian Frontier youtube.com
The term protopia was a new one on me.
- Climate Zones pudding.cool
- The OpenAI Keynote – Stratechery by Ben Thompson stratechery.com
The best UI, though, is no UI at all, or rather, just one UI, by which I mean “Universal Interface”.
- Paying Ourselves To Decarbonize - NOEMA noemamag.com
As we transition to a green economy, we must compensate petro-states for their lost income. Otherwise, the world economy will collapse like a house of cards.
- Microsoft and the Metaverse – Stratechery by Ben Thompson stratechery.com
What makes “The Metaverse” unique, then, is that it is the Internet best experienced in virtual reality. This, though, will take time; I expect that the first virtual reality experiences will be individual metaverses, tied together by the Internet as we experience it today.
- Ross Andersen – Humanity's deep future aeonmagazine.com
‘I am finding it increasingly plausible that existential risk is the biggest moral issue in the world,’ he told me. ‘Even if it hasn’t gone mainstream yet.’
- 2512 - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
- Cars (again) - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
Lots of interesting bits here but the stats in particular stand out. "The death toll is not small. The UK, despite having an excellent road safety record, sees more people killed on the roads every year than died during the entire duration of the Troubles in Northern Ireland; "According to the World Health Organization motor vehicle collisions are the 6th most common cause of death in developed nations, with an average rate of 20.8 per 100,000 populations in the year 2000 (30.8 for males, 11.0 for females). African nations have the world's highest road traffic injury mortality rates." (Wikipedia on traffic-related death rates.) 1.2 million were killed and 50 million injured in road traffic accidents in 2004."
Much more beyond this quote... "When you actually need to travel, your personal devices will keep you on track. For example something the “JITwatch“, or that iPhone app that triggers an alarm when GPS indicates you’re within a particular distance from your destination."... but everything has been done already.
Via infovore.
If Pattern Recognition was about the immediate psychic aftermath of 9-11, and Spook Country about the deep end of the Bush administration and the invasion of Iraq, I could say that Zero History is about the global financial crisis as some sort of nodal event, but that must be true of any 2010 novel with ambitions on the 2010 zeitgeist. But all three of these novels are also about that dawning recognition that the future, be it capital-T Tomorrow or just tomorrow, Friday, just means more stuff, however peculiar and unexpected. A new quotidian. Somebody’s future, somebody else’s past.
What does this site do? It keeps track of predictions of the future by public figures.
The world is changing. And changing quickly. The web is going to win, filling the market niche where Flash and other similar technologies found their hold.
- ongoing · Multi-Inflection-Point Alert tbray.org
We’re simultaneously at inflection points in programming languages and databases and network programming and processor architectures and Web development and IT business models and desktop environments. Did I miss anything?
- Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
An overview of some of the top trends we cover on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines.
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com blogs.zdnet.com · Archived on
[A] wide-ranging dig into the past, present and future of the Semantic Web
- IBM Press room - 2007-11-08 IBM Predicts the End of Advertising as We Know It - United States www-03.ibm.com
Increasingly empowered consumers, more self-reliant advertisers and ever-evolving technologies are redefining how advertising is sold, created, consumed and tracked.
- innovation playground Idris Mootee: Ad Agency's Disruptive Future? Can The Old Dogs Survive It? mootee.typepad.com
In this crazy business environment, marketing is ready to be reinvented. No one is sure to who is taking the lead to drive this change.
- russell davies: music futures russelldavies.typepad.com
That seems like a future for the music industry, doesn't seem a bad future. Just not a lot of role in it for large record companies.
"Big businesses are not the only ones who can benefit from sending work overseas. Individuals can make cost and time savings, too. Ben Hammersley investigates" I might try and get my del.icio.us linking done offshore to save some time.
- Designing the Future - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com msnbc.msn.com
NEWSWEEK talks to a leading ecological architect whose goal is nothing less than eliminating waste and pollution.