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AS WE RECENTLY WROTE ABOUT ACHILLES HEEL, fruitful ways forward are rarely revealed unless we seek what is weak in the system. Every renegade knows that they must eventually expose the limitation of apparent perception. All givens must be ruthlessly questioned. Tomorrow is never certain, so to pull back the curtain we need to shake our innate poet tree. When the world is wound up in words we can escape to this higher place and view the herd caught up in processes not yet understood. We move ahead by going way back to the origins that delight erudition. Fresh vision bursts forth from...
EVERYWHERE YOU GO PEOPLE ARE ASKING, “what do we do?” We smile and tell them we are a smoldering up-start in the fast-growing experiential industry; that we are essentially in the people and planet betterment business. Robust human rejuvenation. Naked ambition. A “genesis regeneration” for the future of the planet and the species.
We are, for all intensive purposes, independently-funded and intrinsically-motivated and founded on a deep desire to free the world, to unite the world, and to help it sense more, feel more, and be more. Trenched in the desire to teach others how...
THE TOUGH ORIGINS OF THE FUTURE LOUNGE CAN BE READILY TRACED. The escalation of a rootless and fragmented society has shifted the grounds towards the conditions for its emergence. There has never been any doubt that this project was to be expressly pressed into the service of a new nexus of community at this specific time in history. Nor has it been lost that something like this was bound to appear on the scene to fulfill a prescient plan, one that could only manifest when the situation was ripe; that crucial moment betwixt and between when we are cast adrift on the causeways...
NO REST FOR THE JET-SET FUTURIST. From Anime Expo to XMediaLab, DomeFest to Transmediale, H+ Summit to Quantified Self and Wikimania to Future Shorts, there are gatherings galore to explore. Here’s our hit list of must-attend events in 2011. Watch for our interactive calendar coming soon.
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AS WE RISE TO MEET THE DAY, we once again pledge to become more fit for the future, to take a standpoint that leads to resolution, staying clear of the road to desperation. Doing so is poetry in motion. The poet is the person in whom powers are in balance, the man without impediment, Emerson wrote, who sees and handles that which others dream of, and traverses the whole scale of experience. Hence, when we live and lead mythopoetically, we are the pulse; conscious creators where others stand perplexed, blindsided. We act with a true sense of immediacy while others ...
EVERYTHING . IS . POSSIBLE . WHEN . YOU . OPEN . YOUR . MIND
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KNOWLEDGE-HUNGRY VISITORS TO THE FUTURE LOUNGE SALON ARE SURE TO ENJOY A REWARDING CORNUCOPIA of paradigm-shifting reading material from our luxurious alcove Library stocked with nearly 1100 cutting-edge titles traversing nearly every facet of the future cultural spectrum. If you are so inclined, slip in and chill and recline and expand your mind with a great book while sipping on something smooth from our phenomenal full-service cocktail bar. Cognacs, cigars and slippers are optional but refined.
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THE MORE WE CONSIDER THE VASTNESS OF THE UNIVERSE and open our minds to the meaning of existence and the future of life on Earth, the smaller and humbler we become. The more we become swept up in exponential acceleration, the more we come to terms with the profound shifts happening and the more we live with urgency and purpose. The more we accept the current trials and eminent challenges and face the shocking truths, the more we teethe on the dream of a new and enlightened dispensation, an ordering of worldly affairs that may steer the outcome in the direction of emancipation.
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CALIFORNIA DREAMS - coming Fall 2012 – Silicon Valley
The start of 2011 sees California embark on an ambitious PR campaign to re-brand itself in effort to boldly go where no state has gone before, declaring the coming Decade of the Future and claiming the title, State of the Future. The zeitgeist-defining move catalyzes the popular imagination with an unprecedented solidarity and a singular vision of unity: a healthy, creative and prosperous future for CA, the nation, and humanity. The centerpiece: Festival of the Future – an annual celebration...
I’M THE FIRST TO ADMIT I HAVE HIGH HOPES for foresight initiatives like The Future Lounge to play a role in the return of social vitality. Common sense says by engaging people around the right set of ideas and values we can mobilize their intensity in a dramatic fashion. The moment has come. The shape of things are ripe for the shaping. We CAN direct the way the world goes round once we see it DOES revolve around us to a certain degree – the degree that we take part in the valid and inalienable responsibility to serve the greater good within the larger whole. Right in the palm...
When you find a bend in the wall, go straight
When the signs point one way, deviate
On the path to salvation, the world is your creation
Saying yes to you, saying yes to me
-Vanessa Daou, Dear John Coltrane
In this age of daunting complexity and equal uncertainty, everything is being questioned and everything seems up for grabs. Futurists continue to tell us that we must become more and more skilled at sailing into the unknown, and doing so means embracing our limitations and reevaluating our ability to do anything at all.
It’s not surprising that a movement has emerged championing...
WHAT DID THE WORLD CARE ABOUT THIS YEAR based on billions of our Internet searches? Check out Google’s annual 2010 Zeitgeist year-in-review feature which determines the biggest stories based on the most popular search terms typed into the world’s biggest search engine. Re-live 2010′s top events and major moments from around the globe through a fascinating mix of search, images, and video produced by Whirled Creative and set to catchy GoodLife by the band OneRepublic.
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The Pachamama Alliance is a U.S. based not-for-profit organization founded with the goal of empowering indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that work, educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world.
At the heart of the initiative is the Awakening the Dreamer Changing the Dream Symposium, a transformative educational experience that empowers participants to respond to humanity’s current situation with action and informed, grounded optimism about our future.
Through...
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. –Charles Kettering
Feel the Sun uprising and the new day breakin’ through. See it spin round and round as the world gets smaller and smaller. The dawn awakes in mysterious ways. Unraveled like a magician’s secret. Rousing us to the occasion. Moving us to the point where there are no more excuses.
Masters of our fate. Captains of our soul. What an interesting tension. One world gels while another comes apart at the seams. We stand at the cusp of new beginnings. Resolute when all seems lost. The path is laid out if we only but listen....
In the engrossing one-hour NOW on PBS special, Fixing the Future, host David Brancaccio visits US communities using innovative approaches to create jobs and build prosperity in our new economy. Brancaccio travels across America uncovering innovative community and small business projects pioneered by inspirational personalities to tackle one of the toughest challenges facing Americans today:
How does our country create jobs that pay well and build prosperity?
Click here to watch Fixing the Future
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IT WAS THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY that John Lennon’s life was senselessly taken away…
“On this tragic anniversary, please join me in remembering John with deep love and respect. In his short-lived life of 40 years, he has given so much to the world. The world was lucky to have known him. We still learn so much from him today. John, I love you!”
–Yoko Ono
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ARCHAI is a new academic journal dedicated to the field of Archetypal Cosmology, an area of study exploring correlations between “discernible archetypal patterns in human experience and the structural order within the solar system.” Developed by a group of scholars in the San Francisco Bay Area including Richard Tarnas, Stanislav Grof, Keiron Le Grice, Rod O’Neal, and Bill Streett, Archetypal cosmology uses astrological techniques to study the significance of planetary cycles and alignments, and draws on fields such as Jungian depth psychology, Greek philosophy, transpersonal...
Living on the margins is what we have bargained for in the sweet light of dawn. Seems it’s all part of an imminent transmission – the bridge from this world to beyond. Our navi-gate is just one flowering manifesto, a lifepath manifestation and cause d’celebration that is influencing the art of futureculture one philosophically infused bite at a time. There’s a change in the wind so we all take cover entrenched in retreat with an unbending intent to discover that re-treatment center for future shocked lovers. We have wondered through this world and as each moment has unfurled...
Hitting theaters December 17th, TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyberuniverse that has become far more...
THE FUTURE LOUNGE PROVIDES NAVIGATION from the past through the present to the future, helping you get into every moment in order to get the most out of life. The more life moves you the more you want to know the whys behind what is there in the where of the here. Like jacking into an engine room, we are a means for meaningful context, a focal frame for being, becoming and doing in a non-doing way. Charting cold transfusion, the fringe beat of bold combustion, our nav-log captures erupted truth. Disengaged in hyperspace, things turn richly symbolic as we tread the magically...
CITIZENS OF SOCIETIES EVERYWHERE ON THE PLANET ARE sensing that those societies are in the midst of major, epochal change. In an important sense, all of us are like explorers seeking a new continent, but without any maps to guide us. Are You Ready for the 21st Century? is an astute Manifesto offering a framework exploring new mechanisms for addressing the complexities of an emergent post-industrial society. How do we develop a participative democracy? What interrelated major crises are unfolding simultaneously? What models of society, culture and economy do we need to change? The tools...
It’s been nearly 13 years since researchers first discovered the Pacific Trash Vortex, a country-sized mass of plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre. Since that time, countless boats have come back with anecdotal reports of masses of plastic floating in the sea. Earlier this week, Fast Company had the chance to sit down with two people who voyaged into the gyre this past summer: Mary Crowley, Project KAISEI co-founder and executive director of the Ocean Voyages Institute and Nick Mallos, a marine scientist with The Ocean Conservancy. The pair took part in a 20 person,...
THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES will explore what could be in the future for motion pictures in “Where Do We Go from Here?” this Thursday, December 2nd at 8pm at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. This exciting program will be presented by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council and hosted by writer-director-producer Jerry Zucker.
“Where Do We Go from Here?” will examine topics ranging from artificial intelligence to performance capture, 3D and non-traditional theatrical venues. Joining Zucker will be Council member...
IN SCANNING THE FUTURE, there’s no explaining what your imagination can make you think and feel. Here we are in what looks like a no-way-out, or so it seems, and suddenly there’s good reason to be on the upbeat about a commitment to mutual improvement, a non-stop flight into life. Our shared visions offer enlightened agendas for total renewal. We are either going to destroy each other or we’re actually going to make it. New social designs have to emerge. We must mobilize for peace and prosperity. Get on the love train or get out of the way. Fast changes arriving. Slow changes are...
For years activists have been finding creative ways to opt out of the consumer spectacle and spark a revolution. This weekend, Adbusters Media Foundation invites you to join the growing network of activists organizing a Carnivalesque Rebellion that will shut down consumer capitalism for a week.
Think of it as an adventure, as therapy – a week of pieing and pranks, of talking back at your profs and speaking truth to power. Some of us will put up posters in schools and neighborhoods and just break daily routines for a week. Others will chant, spark mayhem in big box stores and provoke...
Evolution is the Revolution
An artful blend of documentary, satire, and narrative filmmaking, Ghetto Physics is the new film examining the power dynamic that exists in social, political, and corporate relationships. In line with the wave of hard hitting call-to-arms documentaries we’ve seen in the last handful of years, Ghetto Physics asks us to take a closer look at the world around us. If you liked What the Bleep Do We Know, then you will enjoy Ghetto Physics, a meaningful movie with a message applicable to everyone.
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FIERCE OPTIMISM DRIVES THIS ENTERPRISE. We continue to believe that there are more than enough smart people out there who are ready to take the next step towards a futuractivist lifestyle fueled by deeper truths and the essential character of being. Build it and they will come is expected. A fin de siècle re-creation room at the twilight margins is erected. A border-dwelling emporium steers transitions from the ever-present; a cloistered timespace that is both destination and its guide. The doors to the inner parlour swing open on a repository that brightens our northern sky; a sci-domed...
Humanity must rise above the earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond. For only then will we understand the world in which we live. –Socrates
I attended the big closing night of The Vortex Immersive Cinema series last Friday, November 12th. The 3-week run featuring eye-popping spectacles such as the DomeFest Retrospective, the best of the international DomeFest exposition of the most innovative works created for “fulldome” theaters, culminated with special presentations of BELLA GAIA, “a poetic vision of earth from space” performed live by award-winning director...
A candid conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media from “The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan,” Playboy Magazine, March 1969.
Because of today’s terrific speed-up of information moving, we have a chance to apprehend, predict and influence the environmental forces shaping us — and thus win back control of our own destinies. The new extensions of man and the environment they generate are the central manifestations of the evolutionary process, and yet we still cannot free ourselves of the delusion that it is how a medium is used that counts, rather...
The Fundamentals of Computers and Society
Technology changes society. Whether fire, wheels, guns or skyscrapers, all have made a massive difference to the way we work, live and play. Computer technology is accelerating the change and raising whole new issues society has to tackle. It stretches the limits of the law – if you steal someone’s virtual money in a virtual world are you a thief?It raises new ethical questions – when is it ethical to pose as someone else online? It affects our privacy – would you be happy if your kid brother could check exactly what you were...
When you follow your bliss… doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else. –Joseph Campbell…
Time to prepare for leave-taking. Can you feel it in the air tonight? Are we not ready, to not only knock at the door of destiny, but knock it down if necessary? Know the world can be what you make it. Send it off in a letter to yourself. You have the power to truly shape it. But, you must act NOW. We approach this threshold in the power of the Tao when we stand with integrity, claim our thread in the...
ONE OF THE PROMISING DIMENSIONS OF THE FUTURE LOUNGE EXPERIENCE is its potential application as a social circle that brings people together into closer cross-cultural relations and cross-discipline collaboration. Our open possibility space offers a fusion of community connection and dynamic discussion on the experiences, issues, benefits and challenges of those immersed in psychographically inclusive future-scenes. In the process, there is a desire to foster a dynamic exchange that allows us to tap into rewarding international perspectives. More than just a compelling networking...
Each year, Technology Review selects what it believes are the 10 most important emerging technologies. The winners are chosen based on the editors’ coverage of key fields. The question that we ask is simple: is the technology likely to change the world? Some of these changes are on the largest scale possible: better biofuels, more efficient solar cells, and green concrete all aim at tackling global warming in the years ahead. Other changes will be more local and involve how we use technology: for example, 3-D screens on mobile devices, new applications for cloud computing, and...
THE FUTURE LOUNGE is now available as a unique mobile experience that reaches out into other worlds and boldly goes where no lounge has gone before. Plug The Future Lounge Experience into your venue or next special event and create a technologically advanced lounge of the future your guests will never forget. A social-experiential chill-out zone that captures the zeitgeist of the emerging age, The Future Lounge is a next-generation playspace and imaginarium allowing visitors to gain a new appreciation of tomorrow’s better world. This futuristic hub and immersadelic club provides a powerful...
Symphony of Science is a unique project headed by John Boswell with the inspired intention of spreading scientific knowledge and philosophy through musical remixes. A creative blend of science, music and video, Symphonies of Science delivers a meaningful message within a fascinating audiovisual experience. The project owes its existence in large measure to the work of Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steve Soter, with their production of the classic PBS Series Cosmos, as well as all the other featured figures and visuals.
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Humanity +, “the world’s leading nonprofit dedicated to the ethical use of technology to extend human capabilities,” is a key organization driving interest in the future of humanity and the related areas of life extension, artificial intelligence, virtual-worlds, human-computer interfacing, robots, and beyond. Their upcoming December 4th and 5th conference at Caltech will feature many of the leading figures in the transhumanist and future-tech communities, as well as some exciting new voices presenting their original research and thinking. There will also be a special...
WE ARE A TANGENT YOU-NIVERSE OF POSSIBILITIES. Wheels within wheels that roll on indefinitely. A source of immense power and potentiality, yet also a constant danger of catastrophe. We surf on recombinant methodologies, maneuver through oblique strategies, and do our best to discern what happens after what comes next. What will happen exactly where, when and how is a necessary mystery. We navigate these unknowns proactively so that life unfolds synchronistically, every moment seemingly inevitable, felt as if it is lived and experienced effortlessly. This involves foreseeing potentialities,...
SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN, a new vision for the lounge of the future is emerging that we are now just seriously discerning, a fresh new way of clarifying and connecting many years of research, observation, experience and adventure, what amounts to a vigorous quest for understanding and meaning. The result is this hyper-dimensional chill-out club in which to recline and contemplate the fate of our planet and its people, an empowering portal oasis where we can sit down and get down on the pulse of what’s cooking and what’s about to come. A departure lounge for...
Six years ago, a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form crashed over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear, and half of Mexico was quarantined as an “infected zone.” Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain “the creatures.” The story begins when a jaded U.S. journalist begrudgingly agrees to find his boss’ daughter, a shaken American tourist, and escort through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border. Directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Whitney Able (All the Boys...
The mysterious Doctor Alex Xross has newly emerged as a burgeoning YouTube spectacle with a unique message for the masses. In video #1, Xross discusses issues relating to Transhumanism, Theridion Corporation, Veri-Sync, and Biblical Prophecy. In video #2, ‘The Great Cleaving,’ he explores the subject of Transhumanism and Ancient Mythologies. In video #3, he covers recent issues of global significance including protests against the formation of the NAU, the marketing of ‘Singularity’ technologies, and a song written by George Lucas. Very interesting stuff indeed.
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INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE ANNOUNCES CALIFORNIA DREAMS: A CALL FOR ENTRIES ON IMAGINING LIFE IN CALIFORNIA IN 2020
Put yourself in the future and show us what a day in your life looks like. Will California keep growing, start conserving, reinvent itself, or collapse? How are you living in this new world? Anyone can enter, anyone can vote; anyone can change the future of California!
California has always been a frontier—a place of change and innovation, reinventing itself time and again. The question is, can California do it again? Today the state is facing some of its toughest challenges....
The proverbial path that once existed into adulthood– education, career, marriage, family– has been blurred. Today, young women are presented with a complex web of opportunities of which are theirs for the taking. And while the possibilities and uncertainties that come with so many options can be daunting, women are going forth. They simply need a wider range of unconventional guidance and direction to help weave together their many interests and ambitions.
Which is why Levi’s created Shape What’s to Come – an online community based around shared interests and passions,...
Are we prepared for dealing with the prospect that humanity is not the end of evolution? Technocalyps is an intriguing three-part documentary on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys.
The accelerating advances in genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, brain research, bionics and nanotechnology seem to converge to one goal: to overcome human limits and create higher forms of intelligent life and eventually transhuman life. Technocalyps is an inquiry into the scientific, ethical and metaphysical dimensions of technological development: the...
Fun Flicks for Future Fashionistas: What were the fashion-forward looks from the perspective of 40-50-60-70 years ago? Here’s an entertaining assemblage from YouTube revealing a hip Space-Age Fashion Futurism with much promise, starting with a cool 1930′s prediction of what Eve will look like in AD 2000 upward and onward to vintage Paco Rabanne in 1969 and Pierre Cardin in 1970. We top this futuristic featurette off with a Future Clothes closer by Lacoste for their 75th anniversary that imagines what the game of tennis might look like in the year 2083.
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What will the future bring – the birth of a new world or the destruction of the current one? CBC TV’s (Canada) show Surviving the Future is an hour-long documentary on the major challenges facing humanity over the next half-century and the amazing technologies and social shifts underway to meet those challenges. Directed by the award-winning documentarian Marc de Guerre, Surviving the Future is an intense piece of work, featuring interviews with a wide variety of scientists, writers, and other thinkers such as Jamais Cascio of IEET and Institute for the Future.
Not too long ago, the...
For more than 150 years, The Atlantic has challenged conventional wisdom and celebrated the moral and intellectual bravery of leaders who espouse unpopular or controversial positions. Its tradition of challenging established wisdom has led to stories both celebrated and strange. In their special Brave Thinkers report, the second annual, they highlight men and women who embody this great tradition today. The 2010 List includes 19 people risking their reputations, fortunes, and lives in pursuit of big ideas.
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Since its inception last January, The Future Lounge’s ambitious Library of the Future has been growing at an accelerated rate. Now with a total of 862 books and counting, we are on our way to potentially closing out the year at the 1000 mark. We enthusiastically invite you in to immerse yourself in what is shaping up to be quite a potent collection of titles sure to stimulate, intrigue and delight. In the process, please let us know which one’s grab you and what personal favorites of your own you would like to suggest.
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The forthcoming Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010 follows the striking success of Future of Media Summits 2006, 2007 and 2008, and Future of Influence Summit 2009. In each case simultaneous events in Sydney and Silicon Valley merge seamlessly, linked by live video links and cross-continental conversation.
Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010 will be highly interactive, consisting of expert panels, focused conversations between attendees, and structured discussion of the event’s themes.
Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010 will examine three critical issues:
The impact of...
Thirsty for fresh inspiration but somewhat short on time? Here’s another installment of our new guide to the diverse resources on this site, 12 randomly chosen selections from the expansive Future Lounge blogroll list — twelve thought-provoking windows onto the world that are guaranteed to please the most curious future synthesist. You are cordially invited to jack into the mindflow and follow your own muse-infused remix into the broader implications that illuminate the greater evolving big picture of the moment.
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BENOIT MANDELBROT
1924 — 2010
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, the maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday, October 14th in Cambridge at the age of 85. Dr. Mandelbrot was Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics) at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal” to refer to a new class of mathematical shapes whose uneven contours could mimic the irregularities found in nature. In a seminal book, The...
The Future Lounge celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first and most influential book by futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Future Shock. Published in 1970, Future Shock referred to “too much change in too short a period of time.” The book contended that accelerated technological and social change would overwhelm people, leaving them disconnected and suffering from “shattering stress and disorientation” – future shocked. In discussing of the components of such shock, the Toffler’s popularized the term information overload and outlined the...
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian fiction writer and cultural commentator whose writing is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of his novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture.
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Digital domes, or “full-dome” video, the projection of megapixel digital imagery on dome screens have taken the planetarium profession by storm in the last decade. When artfully combined with narrative, music and surround audio they provide a compelling medium for the public assimilation of scientific knowledge and visuals into deeper personal and cultural meanings and further the quest to reveal the mysteries of the universe and render them understandable and accessible to all humanity. These presentations can assist the assimilation of knowledge into deeper personal and cultural...
Social Media Mixer is a social networking event celebrating Social Media Week in Los Angeles, part of a multi-city global conference connecting people, content and conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media. Dozens of free events hosted at iconic locations all over the city will bring together CEO’s, entrepreneurs, journalists, bloggers, brand managers, CMO’s, social media strategists, artists, activists and the technology/media digerati. The momentum for the LA conference has been incredible. Most recently, the City of Los Angeles, the Financial...
I have some bad news for you: The more you email, tweet, post messages on Facebook, read blogs (including this one), the less clever you become. With the advent of ever more capable mobile devices, people are online all the time, everywhere. You see people texting while waiting in line for their coffee, while exercising in the gym, while going up or down in an elevator. The opportunities to make the tiniest windows of time productive or entertaining become almost endless. But the achievement comes at a price. Scientists are discovering an unexpected side effect: The higher digital...
The Global Picture
Combining startling graphic imagery with truly shocking facts gathered from the world’s most authoritative sources, The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts is a powerful visual manifesto by the world’s most respected graphic designer, Jonathan Barnbrook and his studio. This small yet ethically driven book questions the status quo of global politics and highlights the inequalities and iniquities of rampant globalization.
Here’s just a few examples:
War: Between 1998 and 2007 global military spending increased by 45%.
Drugs: 80% of inmates in some U.K....
DEFINITION: Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It’s the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It’s a mode of training your senses and intellect so you’re able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the secrets of becoming a wildly disciplined, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, scrupulously curious, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lyrically logical, lustfully compassionate Master of Rowdy Bliss.
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear...
Check out the August 2010 issue of Wired for the feature: Where’s the Future? Will Ferrell’s Tour of Tech That Never Took and take a playful look at the glorious scientific inventions that were supposed to transform the way the world works in the 21st century, but didn’t. The new piece features comic actor Will Ferrell, who wonders why the marvels we were promised haven’t materialized. Indeed, from laser guns to designer babies, it seems the fanciful future that was touted looks a lot more like the pedestrian past.
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CTHEORY is an international peer-reviewed journal of theory, technology and culture edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. Articles, interviews, and key book reviews in contemporary discourse are published weekly as well as theorizations of major “event-scenes” in the mediascape. CODE DRIFT: Essays in Critical Digital Studies is a special issue based on the work presented at two workshops held at the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Victoria and the first of a continuing series of publications and workshops on the digital future.
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What is obvious: we are in an age of great change, due to the rapid pace in which technology is shaping our lives:
What’s not so obvious: our ability to make sense of what is happening cannot keep up with the pace of this change.
What we know: the sense-making process requires some degree of stability in order for the story to take hold. Paraphrasing Joseph Campbell: stories/myths have been created and were told over time because we have had ample opportunity to create some understanding of our environment. For instance: indigenous cultures may observe the cold weather changing to...
We have now entered a second nuclear age with nuclear weapons in the hands of nine countries, and more working to construct them. Currently, there are 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world — most of them in the U.S. (9,400) and Russia (13,000) ready to launch at a moment’s notice. It is estimated that 166,000 people were killed from the single nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. When the Cold War ended, some people believed the danger had passed. Today, however, the threat posed by nuclear weapons is even more urgent. That is the message of Countdown to Zero, a film none...
Version is an online journal for short-form writing and media work. It presents scenes, incidents, encounters, and sensory experiences drawn from everyday life, in which concepts are not only elaborated but enacted.
Version works in close-up, cultivating moods, atmospheres, and various forms of bodily apprehension and awareness. It aims for a quality of intimacy, presence, and affective charge: a material openness to unexpected forms of encounter. At the same time, it works laterally, conducting transversal operations across object-boundaries, attuned to the rhythms, flows, and...
Revolution on a worldwide scale will unfold at a very slow pace. It is beginning to happen. What we need to do in order to recognize this fact is to stop thinking of revolution as a singular thing, as one great cataclysmic break. Instead, we should be asking ourselves what revolutionary action is. Revolutionary action does not necessarily have to be so grandiose… Something so small as attempting to create autonomous communities in the face of opposing power would, for instance, be revolutionary acts. If we accept this definition, then we accept the fact that quiet revolutions...
The Future Lounge invites you to enjoy this glossary of terms frequently used in community cultural development and planning.
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Artsworkers
- tends to be used instead of artist for two reasons. First, some professional community cultural development (CCD) workers will be involved in project design, management and evaluation rather than actual art making, and second, to acknowledge the additional range of skills CCD artists are need to employ. In addition to the artform expertise required to ensure excellent artistic outcomes, CCD...
Drawing extensively from The Future Lounge blogroll of Topics, it gives us great pleasure to proudly present a series of Wikipedia-linked terminologies specifically chosen to accelerate greater self-understanding, life-purpose and empowerment. These consciousness-raising concerns and curiosities reflect a wide-range of personal interests and represent subjects that are likely relevant to those creative future-orientated people interested and involved in helping and healing professions and practices. These are listed here in no particular order.
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Featuring stunning, on-orbit coverage of the STS-1256 Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble 3D chronicles the amazing saga of the greatest success in space since the Moon Landing. IMAX 3D cameras launched on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 11 , 2009. The astronauts operated the IMAX cameras and filmed the five intricate and difficult spacewalks required for the final service of the Hubble. The IMAX footage is combined with breathtaking up close images of distant galaxies from Hubble to capture the Hubble’s astonishing legacy for generations to come. See the Hubble 3D trailer.
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What would you do in the wake of a global catastrophe? Even if you survived it, could you survive the aftermath?
Season Two of THE COLONY introduces viewers to a new group of volunteers with differing backgrounds, skills and personalities, to bear witness to how these colonists will survive and rebuild in a world without electricity, running water, government or outside communication. Over the course of 10 episodes, the colonists — who include a construction foreman, teacher, carpenter and auto mechanic — must work to utilize and strengthen their exploration, technology and...
The Stone is a new New York Times opinion series featuring the writings of contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless — art, war, ethics, gender, popular culture and more. The series moderator is Simon Critchley, chair of philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York, who introduces The Stone with an examination of the question, What Is a Philosopher? In coming months, The Stone will include contributions from a rotating group of philosophers, including Nancy Bauer, Jay Bernstein, Arthur C. Danto, Todd May, Nancy Sherman, Peter Singer and others.
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The Millennium Project is an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. Founded in 1996, it manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 2,500 people since the beginning of the project selected by its 33 Nodes around the world. The work is distilled in its annual “State of the Future,” “Futures Research Methodology” series, and...
Hungry for ideas but short on time? Kicking off a new ongoing guide to the diverse resources on this site, we present you with 12 randomly chosen selections from the mighty Future Lounge blogroll list — twelve mind-expanding doorways onto the world of creative knowledge that are guaranteed to please the wildest futuristic imagination. You are invited to plug into the mix and follow the muse to your own remix matrix, a distillation of the deeper connections of perceived meaning within the context of the greater whole evolving within this very moment.
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This month’s Smithsonian Magazine is a special anniversary issue dedicated to the breakthroughs, trends and social forces likely to shape our world between now and 2050. “40 Things You Need to Know About the Next 40 Years” relates directly to features on energy, immigration, technology, population, medical science, oceans, climate change and more and includes contributions from President Barack Obama, Sir Richard Branson, Melinda Gates, James Cameron, George Lopez, Laurie Anderson and others.
For this issue, Smithsonian conducted an extensive national opinion survey...
In the spirit of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog from the 60s, Adbusters #90: Whole Brain Catalog – Access to Therapies is a powerful new tool for navigating the anxious times ahead. The mental environment is now the terrain where our fate as humans will be decided. The issue includes: Chris Hedges on the cult of self and American psychosis; Ethan Watters on the Americanization of the world’s understanding of the human psyche; Mike Weilbacher on Last Child in the Woods; Blake Sifton on America’s Identity Crisis, and The Ecology of Mind by Micah White and Adbuster...
The future is an uncertainty. The only thing certain is constant change. What part does chance play in the great scheme of things? We look to the art of the aleatoric for clues with a little help from our friends at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Aleatoricism is the creation of art by chance, exploiting the principle of randomness. The word derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice. Not to be confused with improvisation or indeterminacy, aleatoricism is harnessed through many forms of expressive action.
In literature, an example of aleatory writing is the automatic writing of...
Enjoy this highly recommend introduction to GOOD‘s new series from the Institute for the Future by Mathias Crawford.
Never Google the word “futurist.” Besides the conflation with Futurism, the early 20th century fascist-leaning art movement, the world’s gateways to knowledge are far from instructive on the subject. Clichés and caricatures abound, with media coverage dominated by allusions to crystal balls and prophesy and the messianic predictions of techno-utopians. The general public’s sense of what futurists are is not entirely flattering, and rarely...
All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of a single candle.
The Current Situation
Together, we can and will build a brighter future. Yet in order to give meaningful suggestions for this, we first need to speak candidly about what’s happening in the world at present. It appears that there are factions within the world’s power elite which desire to exert as much control as possible over the world. Their primary means for establishing control are through promoting fear, secrecy, and polarization, and through distracting people from their deeper purpose in...
Looking for ways to become more future-activist? Check out these tips and suggestions by Alireza Hejazi of Futures Discovery.
1. Be Open to New Ideas
Have you ever heard anything about “bicameral mind” theory offered by Julian Jaynes? He was a Princeton University psychologist who died at the age of 77. He is famous for one book only: “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,” first published in 1976. Although Jaynes’ perspective is not directly related to Futures Studies, he gives a new...
GRASPING THE PARADOXICAL NATURE OF TIME is one of the most crucial understandings a future-orientated person can have. Among other things, time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships, and how we act in the world. In this delightful RSAnimation created by Cognitive Media, join Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and perhaps the most distinguished psychologist alive today, as he expertly conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our lives, work, health, and overall well-being.
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Science can transform our conception of the universe and our place in it, helping us understand and cope with changes beyond our control. This special interactive infographic of the feature, “12 Events That Will Change Everything,” which appeared in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American, confronts with twelve plausible and pivotal things like contact with aliens, cloned people, nuclear wars, extra dimensions and asteroid impacts that are most likely to happen by 2050. According to the Editors, these events, both natural and man-made, can happen suddenly and at any...
Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it
is the only thing that ever has.
–Margaret Mead
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Effective activism’s a long-haul process, not “save the earth in 30 days, ask me how.” But there are some principles that seem to reoccur for people addressing every kind of challenge from the Gulf Oil spill to inadequate funding for urban schools to how to deal with Afghanistan and Iraq. When I was updating Soul of a Citizen, an activist rabbi who was teaching the book at Florida Gulf Coast University suggested I gather together the Ten Commandments for effective citizen engagement. Calling them Commandments seemed a bit presumptuous, but I did draw together ten suggestions...
Before the Music Dies is a documentary that explores the reason why so few companies currently control the music played on the radio and for sale at retail stores, and whether corporations really have the power to silence musical innovation. Filmmaker Andrew Shapter shows the development of American music, using artists to reveal a current schism in the field, which separates into a homogenous corporate product and into more innovative and distinct work. Before the Music Dies is a great primer for those unaware of the reasons for the decline of popular music in the US. Ever wonder why...
TakePart.com is an independent online community that connects its members directly to the issues that inspire them to engage, contribute and take action. Their team of editors, writers, and researchers curate and deliver actions in context with in-depth primers to the social, environmental, political and cultural issues of our day.
TakePart’s growing global community includes citizens, activists, and large and small non-profits. They invite local and community groups to interact, explore issues, share resources, develop campaigns and use their platform to promote the causes they...
On Saturday, June 19th 2010 c3: VisionLAB will present STATE OF THE ARTS: a symposium addressing future trends in the Arts and Media and their function in Culture and Society. Inspired in part by the LA Opera Ring, this inquiry will function as a celebration of the Ring Festival LA and key themes around Richard Wagner, as well as serve as an inaugural event that will launch the creation of a global arts and media node in partnership with the The Millennium Project and the 2009 State of the Future annual report. This unique symposium will function as a transdisciplinary inquiry into...
As the sun gets hotter we offer up some excellent ways to keep cool
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Article: Why the Internet Is Ground 0 in Global Consciousness War
Zine: Scientific American’s 12 Events That Will Change Everything
Confab: VisionLAB’s State of the Arts Symposium
Event: Mindshare LA’s enlightened debauchery
Drink: Solixer’s sparkling botanical blends
Catalog: Adbusters Whole Brain Catalog
Music: Futurechill by Mars Mercury
Channel: Current’s The...
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is a US nonprofit organization that promotes and publicizes the work of thinkers who examine the social implications of scientific and technological progress. Founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James J. Hughes, the IEET seeks to contribute to the understanding of the impact of emerging technologies on individuals and societies. It also aims to shape public policies that distribute the benefits and reduce the risks of technological advancement.
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies was formed to...
The future belongs to
those who believe in
the beauty of their dreams.
–Eleanor Roosevelt
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THE DEEP HORIZON INCIDENT, a catastrophe of epic proportions, is an outrage and a tragedy, simple as that. Read about it here:
As Oiltastrophe Rages on, Public Health in Danger
http://act.commondreams.org/go/811?akid=70.87233.4xPxyR&t=2
BP Oil Spill Confirmed as Worst in U.S. History; Environmental Groups Challenge Continued Oil Operations in Gulf Excluded from New Moratorium
http://act.commondreams.org/go/813?akid=70.87233.4xPxyR&t=6
Live Coverage from BP’s Oil Volcano
http://act.commondreams.org/go/799?akid=70.87233.4xPxyR&t=12
Medea Benjamin | Getting Naked to Expose...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a vital resource that informs the public about threats to the survival and development of humanity from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in the life sciences. Through an award-winning magazine, our online presence, and the Doomsday Clock, it reaches policy leaders and audiences around the world with information and analysis about efforts to address the dangers and prevent catastrophe. With fellowships for students and awards to young journalists, they help educate the next generation.
The Bulletin of the Atomic...
James Martin is a world renowned author, philanthropist and pioneering information technologist, business leader and social entrepreneur in the fields of digital technology, education, and international development. The British-born Pulitzer nominee for his 1977 book The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow is known as “the Guru of the Information Age” and is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the social and commercial ramifications of computers. In addition to an MA in Physics and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford, Martin has honorary doctorates from all...
How well do you know yourself? How well, quantifiably?
At one time these questions may have prompted self-reflection or even deep, psychological analysis. But new technologies are now affording a completely different take on this old question. A growing movement in self-tracking–most commonly known as Quantified Self or Lifeblogging–explores this riddle with the gimlet-eyed clarity of an actuary accountant, poring over Excel spreadsheets and Processing data visualizations.
The Quantified Self movement is a hyper self-reporting strategy that sheds light on our everyday...
Take hold of
your future
or the future
will take hold
of you.
–Patrick Dixon
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April’s hot stories and articles courtesy of Common Dreams
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The Obscenity of War
‘Food Hero’ says to Value Soil, Not Oil
Walmart: The Inhuman Essence of a Corporate ‘Person’
EFF Backs Yahoo! to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search
Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People: New Book
Viacom’s Legal Attack on YouTube Threatens Online Speech and Innovation
Your Tax Dollars at War: More Than 53% of Your Tax Payment Goes to...
Along with the many benefits of leisure-class living comes obesity and its attendant ailments. In The Warrior Diet, Ori Hofmekler looks not forward but backward for a solution–to the primal habits of early cultures such as nomads and hunter-gatherers, the Greeks, and the Romans. Based on survival science, this book proposes not ordinary dietary changes but rather a radical yet surprisingly simple lifestyle overhaul.
Drawing on both scientific studies and historical data, Hofmekler argues that robust health and a lean, strong body can best be achieved by mimicking the...
40 years after the first Earth Day, we’re still staring down the barrel of environmental catastrophe. Here are five big approaches we can take to saving life on the planet. Courtesy of AlterNet by Tara Lohan
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Do not go where
the path may lead,
go instead where
there is no path
and leave a trail.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Scientist follows a brilliant physicist, Dr. Marcus Ryan (Bill Sage), who anguishes over the tragic death of his wife and daughter while secretly constructing a mysterious energy generator in his basement. The multi-dimensional energy unleashed by the machine triggers a series of events that propels Ryan toward a higher level of consciousness. In short, it is a story about traveling from the darkness into the Light.
The film stars Bill Sage (Precious, American Psycho) and Adam Lefevre (She’s Out of My League, The Bounty Hunter) and is the US theatrical film...
The purpose of trend forecasting is to provide insights and directions in anticipation of what the future may bring – and to be prepared for the unexpected. Gerald Celente, a Close Combat practitioner and black belt trainer, well understands the importance of proacting rather than reacting: “The first rule of Close Combat is to attack the attacker. Action is faster than reaction. The same holds true for the future. You know the future is coming … attack it before it attacks you.”
Celente is a pioneer trend strategist. He is author of the national bestseller Trends 2000 and...
We are all living through the digital revolution, an amazing, exciting time where knowledge is free and the world is at our fingertips. But there is a dark side to our digital emancipation. Jumping brain syndrome, decreased creativity, isolation and depression all stem from an overload of instantly accessible media.
Next week during Digital Detox Week, Adbusters urges us to take some time to pull back from the wired world and assess the damage. Rethink our love affair with technology, stop obsessing over our virtual life, get outside and reignite our relationships with each other. We...
George Leonard, President Emeritus of Esalen Institute and one of the giants of the Human Potential Movement through the second half of the 20th Century, died peacefully at his home in Mill Valley California, surrounded by friends and family, on January 6, 2010. Often called the “third Founder” of Esalen for his decades of leading contributions to the Institute and its work, George Leonard was one of the leading voices of the past two generations in shaping American culture and our world today. Read more at http://www.esalen.org/tributes/george-leonard.html.
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Talks will give a voice to world’s poorest and encourage governments to be ambitious after Copenhagen…
In what is becoming the hippest environment meeting of the year, presidents, politicians, intellectuals, scientists and Hollywood stars will join more than 15,000 indigenous people and thousands of grass roots groups from more than 100 countries to debate climate change in one of the world’s poorest nations.
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth which opens next week in the small Bolivian town of Cochabamba, will have no...
Poetry, Man
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AS WE RECENTLY WROTE ABOUT ACHILLES HEEL, fruitful ways forward are rarely revealed unless we seek what is weak in the system. Every renegade knows that they must eventually expose the limitation of apparent perception. All givens must be ruthlessly questioned. Tomorrow is never certain, so to pull back the curtain we need to shake our innate poet tree. When the world is wound up in words we can escape to this higher place and view the herd caught up in processes not yet understood. We move ahead by going way back to the origins that delight erudition. Fresh vision bursts forth from...
The Only Game In Town
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on Jun 15th, 2011 |
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EVERYWHERE YOU GO PEOPLE ARE ASKING, “what do we do?” We smile and tell them we are a smoldering up-start in the fast-growing experiential industry; that we are essentially in the people and planet betterment business. Robust human rejuvenation. Naked ambition. A “genesis regeneration” for the future of the planet and the species.
We are, for all intensive purposes, independently-funded and intrinsically-motivated and founded on a deep desire to free the world, to unite the world, and to help it sense more, feel more, and be more. Trenched in the desire to teach others how...
Why We’re Here
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THE TOUGH ORIGINS OF THE FUTURE LOUNGE CAN BE READILY TRACED. The escalation of a rootless and fragmented society has shifted the grounds towards the conditions for its emergence. There has never been any doubt that this project was to be expressly pressed into the service of a new nexus of community at this specific time in history. Nor has it been lost that something like this was bound to appear on the scene to fulfill a prescient plan, one that could only manifest when the situation was ripe; that crucial moment betwixt and between when we are cast adrift on the causeways...
Confabulous
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NO REST FOR THE JET-SET FUTURIST. From Anime Expo to XMediaLab, DomeFest to Transmediale, H+ Summit to Quantified Self and Wikimania to Future Shorts, there are gatherings galore to explore. Here’s our hit list of must-attend events in 2011. Watch for our interactive calendar coming soon.
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Rise Above
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AS WE RISE TO MEET THE DAY, we once again pledge to become more fit for the future, to take a standpoint that leads to resolution, staying clear of the road to desperation. Doing so is poetry in motion. The poet is the person in whom powers are in balance, the man without impediment, Emerson wrote, who sees and handles that which others dream of, and traverses the whole scale of experience. Hence, when we live and lead mythopoetically, we are the pulse; conscious creators where others stand perplexed, blindsided. We act with a true sense of immediacy while others ...
L I M I T L E S S
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EVERYTHING . IS . POSSIBLE . WHEN . YOU . OPEN . YOUR . MIND
EVERYTHING . IS . POSSIBLE . WHEN . YOU . OPEN . YOUR . MIND
EVERYTHING . IS . POSSIBLE . WHEN . YOU . OPEN . YOUR . MIND
EVERYTHING . IS . POSSIBLE . WHEN . YOU . OPEN . YOUR . MIND
EVERYTHING . IS . POSSIBLE . WHEN . YOU . OPEN . YOUR . MIND
EVERYTHING . IS . POSSIBLE . WHEN . YOU . OPEN . YOUR . MIND
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Salon Selections
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KNOWLEDGE-HUNGRY VISITORS TO THE FUTURE LOUNGE SALON ARE SURE TO ENJOY A REWARDING CORNUCOPIA of paradigm-shifting reading material from our luxurious alcove Library stocked with nearly 1100 cutting-edge titles traversing nearly every facet of the future cultural spectrum. If you are so inclined, slip in and chill and recline and expand your mind with a great book while sipping on something smooth from our phenomenal full-service cocktail bar. Cognacs, cigars and slippers are optional but refined.
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What it Takes
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on Mar 23rd, 2011 |
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THE MORE WE CONSIDER THE VASTNESS OF THE UNIVERSE and open our minds to the meaning of existence and the future of life on Earth, the smaller and humbler we become. The more we become swept up in exponential acceleration, the more we come to terms with the profound shifts happening and the more we live with urgency and purpose. The more we accept the current trials and eminent challenges and face the shocking truths, the more we teethe on the dream of a new and enlightened dispensation, an ordering of worldly affairs that may steer the outcome in the direction of emancipation.
This...
Festival of the Future
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CALIFORNIA DREAMS - coming Fall 2012 – Silicon Valley
The start of 2011 sees California embark on an ambitious PR campaign to re-brand itself in effort to boldly go where no state has gone before, declaring the coming Decade of the Future and claiming the title, State of the Future. The zeitgeist-defining move catalyzes the popular imagination with an unprecedented solidarity and a singular vision of unity: a healthy, creative and prosperous future for CA, the nation, and humanity. The centerpiece: Festival of the Future – an annual celebration...
Full Speed Ahead
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on Dec 15th, 2010 |
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I’M THE FIRST TO ADMIT I HAVE HIGH HOPES for foresight initiatives like The Future Lounge to play a role in the return of social vitality. Common sense says by engaging people around the right set of ideas and values we can mobilize their intensity in a dramatic fashion. The moment has come. The shape of things are ripe for the shaping. We CAN direct the way the world goes round once we see it DOES revolve around us to a certain degree – the degree that we take part in the valid and inalienable responsibility to serve the greater good within the larger whole. Right in the palm...
Contrarian Cool
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When you find a bend in the wall, go straight
When the signs point one way, deviate
On the path to salvation, the world is your creation
Saying yes to you, saying yes to me
-Vanessa Daou, Dear John Coltrane
In this age of daunting complexity and equal uncertainty, everything is being questioned and everything seems up for grabs. Futurists continue to tell us that we must become more and more skilled at sailing into the unknown, and doing so means embracing our limitations and reevaluating our ability to do anything at all.
It’s not surprising that a movement has emerged championing...
Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review
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WHAT DID THE WORLD CARE ABOUT THIS YEAR based on billions of our Internet searches? Check out Google’s annual 2010 Zeitgeist year-in-review feature which determines the biggest stories based on the most popular search terms typed into the world’s biggest search engine. Re-live 2010′s top events and major moments from around the globe through a fascinating mix of search, images, and video produced by Whirled Creative and set to catchy GoodLife by the band OneRepublic.
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Awakening the Dreamer
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The Pachamama Alliance is a U.S. based not-for-profit organization founded with the goal of empowering indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that work, educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world.
At the heart of the initiative is the Awakening the Dreamer Changing the Dream Symposium, a transformative educational experience that empowers participants to respond to humanity’s current situation with action and informed, grounded optimism about our future.
Through...
Shine
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. –Charles Kettering
Feel the Sun uprising and the new day breakin’ through. See it spin round and round as the world gets smaller and smaller. The dawn awakes in mysterious ways. Unraveled like a magician’s secret. Rousing us to the occasion. Moving us to the point where there are no more excuses.
Masters of our fate. Captains of our soul. What an interesting tension. One world gels while another comes apart at the seams. We stand at the cusp of new beginnings. Resolute when all seems lost. The path is laid out if we only but listen....
Fixing the Future
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In the engrossing one-hour NOW on PBS special, Fixing the Future, host David Brancaccio visits US communities using innovative approaches to create jobs and build prosperity in our new economy. Brancaccio travels across America uncovering innovative community and small business projects pioneered by inspirational personalities to tackle one of the toughest challenges facing Americans today:
How does our country create jobs that pay well and build prosperity?
Click here to watch Fixing the Future
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Long Live Lennon
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IT WAS THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY that John Lennon’s life was senselessly taken away…
“On this tragic anniversary, please join me in remembering John with deep love and respect. In his short-lived life of 40 years, he has given so much to the world. The world was lucky to have known him. We still learn so much from him today. John, I love you!”
–Yoko Ono
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Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology
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ARCHAI is a new academic journal dedicated to the field of Archetypal Cosmology, an area of study exploring correlations between “discernible archetypal patterns in human experience and the structural order within the solar system.” Developed by a group of scholars in the San Francisco Bay Area including Richard Tarnas, Stanislav Grof, Keiron Le Grice, Rod O’Neal, and Bill Streett, Archetypal cosmology uses astrological techniques to study the significance of planetary cycles and alignments, and draws on fields such as Jungian depth psychology, Greek philosophy, transpersonal...
Eye of the Storm
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on Dec 6th, 2010 |
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Living on the margins is what we have bargained for in the sweet light of dawn. Seems it’s all part of an imminent transmission – the bridge from this world to beyond. Our navi-gate is just one flowering manifesto, a lifepath manifestation and cause d’celebration that is influencing the art of futureculture one philosophically infused bite at a time. There’s a change in the wind so we all take cover entrenched in retreat with an unbending intent to discover that re-treatment center for future shocked lovers. We have wondered through this world and as each moment has unfurled...
Tron: Legacy
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on Dec 3rd, 2010 |
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Hitting theaters December 17th, TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyberuniverse that has become far more...
Navigate This
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on Dec 3rd, 2010 |
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THE FUTURE LOUNGE PROVIDES NAVIGATION from the past through the present to the future, helping you get into every moment in order to get the most out of life. The more life moves you the more you want to know the whys behind what is there in the where of the here. Like jacking into an engine room, we are a means for meaningful context, a focal frame for being, becoming and doing in a non-doing way. Charting cold transfusion, the fringe beat of bold combustion, our nav-log captures erupted truth. Disengaged in hyperspace, things turn richly symbolic as we tread the magically...
Are You Ready for the 21st Century?
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on Nov 27th, 2010 |
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CITIZENS OF SOCIETIES EVERYWHERE ON THE PLANET ARE sensing that those societies are in the midst of major, epochal change. In an important sense, all of us are like explorers seeking a new continent, but without any maps to guide us. Are You Ready for the 21st Century? is an astute Manifesto offering a framework exploring new mechanisms for addressing the complexities of an emergent post-industrial society. How do we develop a participative democracy? What interrelated major crises are unfolding simultaneously? What models of society, culture and economy do we need to change? The tools...
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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on Nov 25th, 2010 |
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It’s been nearly 13 years since researchers first discovered the Pacific Trash Vortex, a country-sized mass of plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre. Since that time, countless boats have come back with anecdotal reports of masses of plastic floating in the sea. Earlier this week, Fast Company had the chance to sit down with two people who voyaged into the gyre this past summer: Mary Crowley, Project KAISEI co-founder and executive director of the Ocean Voyages Institute and Nick Mallos, a marine scientist with The Ocean Conservancy. The pair took part in a 20 person,...
Academy Sees the Future
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THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES will explore what could be in the future for motion pictures in “Where Do We Go from Here?” this Thursday, December 2nd at 8pm at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. This exciting program will be presented by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council and hosted by writer-director-producer Jerry Zucker.
“Where Do We Go from Here?” will examine topics ranging from artificial intelligence to performance capture, 3D and non-traditional theatrical venues. Joining Zucker will be Council member...
Fast Changes
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on Nov 25th, 2010 |
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IN SCANNING THE FUTURE, there’s no explaining what your imagination can make you think and feel. Here we are in what looks like a no-way-out, or so it seems, and suddenly there’s good reason to be on the upbeat about a commitment to mutual improvement, a non-stop flight into life. Our shared visions offer enlightened agendas for total renewal. We are either going to destroy each other or we’re actually going to make it. New social designs have to emerge. We must mobilize for peace and prosperity. Get on the love train or get out of the way. Fast changes arriving. Slow changes are...
Buy Nothing Day
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on Nov 25th, 2010 |
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For years activists have been finding creative ways to opt out of the consumer spectacle and spark a revolution. This weekend, Adbusters Media Foundation invites you to join the growing network of activists organizing a Carnivalesque Rebellion that will shut down consumer capitalism for a week.
Think of it as an adventure, as therapy – a week of pieing and pranks, of talking back at your profs and speaking truth to power. Some of us will put up posters in schools and neighborhoods and just break daily routines for a week. Others will chant, spark mayhem in big box stores and provoke...
Ghetto Physics
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on Nov 23rd, 2010 |
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Evolution is the Revolution
An artful blend of documentary, satire, and narrative filmmaking, Ghetto Physics is the new film examining the power dynamic that exists in social, political, and corporate relationships. In line with the wave of hard hitting call-to-arms documentaries we’ve seen in the last handful of years, Ghetto Physics asks us to take a closer look at the world around us. If you liked What the Bleep Do We Know, then you will enjoy Ghetto Physics, a meaningful movie with a message applicable to everyone.
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Setting the Stage
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on Nov 22nd, 2010 |
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FIERCE OPTIMISM DRIVES THIS ENTERPRISE. We continue to believe that there are more than enough smart people out there who are ready to take the next step towards a futuractivist lifestyle fueled by deeper truths and the essential character of being. Build it and they will come is expected. A fin de siècle re-creation room at the twilight margins is erected. A border-dwelling emporium steers transitions from the ever-present; a cloistered timespace that is both destination and its guide. The doors to the inner parlour swing open on a repository that brightens our northern sky; a sci-domed...
BELLA GAIA
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on Nov 20th, 2010 |
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Humanity must rise above the earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond. For only then will we understand the world in which we live. –Socrates
I attended the big closing night of The Vortex Immersive Cinema series last Friday, November 12th. The 3-week run featuring eye-popping spectacles such as the DomeFest Retrospective, the best of the international DomeFest exposition of the most innovative works created for “fulldome” theaters, culminated with special presentations of BELLA GAIA, “a poetic vision of earth from space” performed live by award-winning director...
Marshall McLuhan Revisited
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on Nov 16th, 2010 |
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A candid conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media from “The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan,” Playboy Magazine, March 1969.
Because of today’s terrific speed-up of information moving, we have a chance to apprehend, predict and influence the environmental forces shaping us — and thus win back control of our own destinies. The new extensions of man and the environment they generate are the central manifestations of the evolutionary process, and yet we still cannot free ourselves of the delusion that it is how a medium is used that counts, rather...
Computer Science for Fun
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on Nov 15th, 2010 |
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The Fundamentals of Computers and Society
Technology changes society. Whether fire, wheels, guns or skyscrapers, all have made a massive difference to the way we work, live and play. Computer technology is accelerating the change and raising whole new issues society has to tackle. It stretches the limits of the law – if you steal someone’s virtual money in a virtual world are you a thief?It raises new ethical questions – when is it ethical to pose as someone else online? It affects our privacy – would you be happy if your kid brother could check exactly what you were...
In Bliss We Trust
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on Nov 15th, 2010 |
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When you follow your bliss… doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else. –Joseph Campbell…
Time to prepare for leave-taking. Can you feel it in the air tonight? Are we not ready, to not only knock at the door of destiny, but knock it down if necessary? Know the world can be what you make it. Send it off in a letter to yourself. You have the power to truly shape it. But, you must act NOW. We approach this threshold in the power of the Tao when we stand with integrity, claim our thread in the...
Social Nodealities
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on Nov 15th, 2010 |
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ONE OF THE PROMISING DIMENSIONS OF THE FUTURE LOUNGE EXPERIENCE is its potential application as a social circle that brings people together into closer cross-cultural relations and cross-discipline collaboration. Our open possibility space offers a fusion of community connection and dynamic discussion on the experiences, issues, benefits and challenges of those immersed in psychographically inclusive future-scenes. In the process, there is a desire to foster a dynamic exchange that allows us to tap into rewarding international perspectives. More than just a compelling networking...
10 Emerging Technologies
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on Nov 15th, 2010 |
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Each year, Technology Review selects what it believes are the 10 most important emerging technologies. The winners are chosen based on the editors’ coverage of key fields. The question that we ask is simple: is the technology likely to change the world? Some of these changes are on the largest scale possible: better biofuels, more efficient solar cells, and green concrete all aim at tackling global warming in the years ahead. Other changes will be more local and involve how we use technology: for example, 3-D screens on mobile devices, new applications for cloud computing, and...
Lounge of the Future
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on Nov 14th, 2010 |
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THE FUTURE LOUNGE is now available as a unique mobile experience that reaches out into other worlds and boldly goes where no lounge has gone before. Plug The Future Lounge Experience into your venue or next special event and create a technologically advanced lounge of the future your guests will never forget. A social-experiential chill-out zone that captures the zeitgeist of the emerging age, The Future Lounge is a next-generation playspace and imaginarium allowing visitors to gain a new appreciation of tomorrow’s better world. This futuristic hub and immersadelic club provides a powerful...
Symphony of Science
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on Nov 12th, 2010 |
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Symphony of Science is a unique project headed by John Boswell with the inspired intention of spreading scientific knowledge and philosophy through musical remixes. A creative blend of science, music and video, Symphonies of Science delivers a meaningful message within a fascinating audiovisual experience. The project owes its existence in large measure to the work of Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steve Soter, with their production of the classic PBS Series Cosmos, as well as all the other featured figures and visuals.
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Redefining Humanity
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on Nov 11th, 2010 |
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Humanity +, “the world’s leading nonprofit dedicated to the ethical use of technology to extend human capabilities,” is a key organization driving interest in the future of humanity and the related areas of life extension, artificial intelligence, virtual-worlds, human-computer interfacing, robots, and beyond. Their upcoming December 4th and 5th conference at Caltech will feature many of the leading figures in the transhumanist and future-tech communities, as well as some exciting new voices presenting their original research and thinking. There will also be a special...
You Are The Future
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on Nov 5th, 2010 |
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WE ARE A TANGENT YOU-NIVERSE OF POSSIBILITIES. Wheels within wheels that roll on indefinitely. A source of immense power and potentiality, yet also a constant danger of catastrophe. We surf on recombinant methodologies, maneuver through oblique strategies, and do our best to discern what happens after what comes next. What will happen exactly where, when and how is a necessary mystery. We navigate these unknowns proactively so that life unfolds synchronistically, every moment seemingly inevitable, felt as if it is lived and experienced effortlessly. This involves foreseeing potentialities,...
Set the Controls
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on Nov 3rd, 2010 |
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SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN, a new vision for the lounge of the future is emerging that we are now just seriously discerning, a fresh new way of clarifying and connecting many years of research, observation, experience and adventure, what amounts to a vigorous quest for understanding and meaning. The result is this hyper-dimensional chill-out club in which to recline and contemplate the fate of our planet and its people, an empowering portal oasis where we can sit down and get down on the pulse of what’s cooking and what’s about to come. A departure lounge for...
Monsters
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on Nov 1st, 2010 |
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Six years ago, a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form crashed over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear, and half of Mexico was quarantined as an “infected zone.” Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain “the creatures.” The story begins when a jaded U.S. journalist begrudgingly agrees to find his boss’ daughter, a shaken American tourist, and escort through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border. Directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Whitney Able (All the Boys...
Doctor Alex Xross
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on Nov 1st, 2010 |
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The mysterious Doctor Alex Xross has newly emerged as a burgeoning YouTube spectacle with a unique message for the masses. In video #1, Xross discusses issues relating to Transhumanism, Theridion Corporation, Veri-Sync, and Biblical Prophecy. In video #2, ‘The Great Cleaving,’ he explores the subject of Transhumanism and Ancient Mythologies. In video #3, he covers recent issues of global significance including protests against the formation of the NAU, the marketing of ‘Singularity’ technologies, and a song written by George Lucas. Very interesting stuff indeed.
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California Dreaming
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on Nov 1st, 2010 |
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INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE ANNOUNCES CALIFORNIA DREAMS: A CALL FOR ENTRIES ON IMAGINING LIFE IN CALIFORNIA IN 2020
Put yourself in the future and show us what a day in your life looks like. Will California keep growing, start conserving, reinvent itself, or collapse? How are you living in this new world? Anyone can enter, anyone can vote; anyone can change the future of California!
California has always been a frontier—a place of change and innovation, reinventing itself time and again. The question is, can California do it again? Today the state is facing some of its toughest challenges....
Shape What’s to Come
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on Oct 31st, 2010 |
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The proverbial path that once existed into adulthood– education, career, marriage, family– has been blurred. Today, young women are presented with a complex web of opportunities of which are theirs for the taking. And while the possibilities and uncertainties that come with so many options can be daunting, women are going forth. They simply need a wider range of unconventional guidance and direction to help weave together their many interests and ambitions.
Which is why Levi’s created Shape What’s to Come – an online community based around shared interests and passions,...
Technocalyps
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on Oct 31st, 2010 |
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Are we prepared for dealing with the prospect that humanity is not the end of evolution? Technocalyps is an intriguing three-part documentary on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys.
The accelerating advances in genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, brain research, bionics and nanotechnology seem to converge to one goal: to overcome human limits and create higher forms of intelligent life and eventually transhuman life. Technocalyps is an inquiry into the scientific, ethical and metaphysical dimensions of technological development: the...
Futura Fashion
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on Oct 29th, 2010 |
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Fun Flicks for Future Fashionistas: What were the fashion-forward looks from the perspective of 40-50-60-70 years ago? Here’s an entertaining assemblage from YouTube revealing a hip Space-Age Fashion Futurism with much promise, starting with a cool 1930′s prediction of what Eve will look like in AD 2000 upward and onward to vintage Paco Rabanne in 1969 and Pierre Cardin in 1970. We top this futuristic featurette off with a Future Clothes closer by Lacoste for their 75th anniversary that imagines what the game of tennis might look like in the year 2083.
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Surviving the Future
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on Oct 23rd, 2010 |
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What will the future bring – the birth of a new world or the destruction of the current one? CBC TV’s (Canada) show Surviving the Future is an hour-long documentary on the major challenges facing humanity over the next half-century and the amazing technologies and social shifts underway to meet those challenges. Directed by the award-winning documentarian Marc de Guerre, Surviving the Future is an intense piece of work, featuring interviews with a wide variety of scientists, writers, and other thinkers such as Jamais Cascio of IEET and Institute for the Future.
Not too long ago, the...
Brave Thinkers
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on Oct 23rd, 2010 |
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For more than 150 years, The Atlantic has challenged conventional wisdom and celebrated the moral and intellectual bravery of leaders who espouse unpopular or controversial positions. Its tradition of challenging established wisdom has led to stories both celebrated and strange. In their special Brave Thinkers report, the second annual, they highlight men and women who embody this great tradition today. The 2010 List includes 19 people risking their reputations, fortunes, and lives in pursuit of big ideas.
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In the Library
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on Oct 22nd, 2010 |
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Since its inception last January, The Future Lounge’s ambitious Library of the Future has been growing at an accelerated rate. Now with a total of 862 books and counting, we are on our way to potentially closing out the year at the 1000 mark. We enthusiastically invite you in to immerse yourself in what is shaping up to be quite a potent collection of titles sure to stimulate, intrigue and delight. In the process, please let us know which one’s grab you and what personal favorites of your own you would like to suggest.
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Crowdsource the Future
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on Oct 21st, 2010 |
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The forthcoming Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010 follows the striking success of Future of Media Summits 2006, 2007 and 2008, and Future of Influence Summit 2009. In each case simultaneous events in Sydney and Silicon Valley merge seamlessly, linked by live video links and cross-continental conversation.
Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010 will be highly interactive, consisting of expert panels, focused conversations between attendees, and structured discussion of the event’s themes.
Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010 will examine three critical issues:
The impact of...
Best of the Blogroll
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on Oct 19th, 2010 |
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Thirsty for fresh inspiration but somewhat short on time? Here’s another installment of our new guide to the diverse resources on this site, 12 randomly chosen selections from the expansive Future Lounge blogroll list — twelve thought-provoking windows onto the world that are guaranteed to please the most curious future synthesist. You are cordially invited to jack into the mindflow and follow your own muse-infused remix into the broader implications that illuminate the greater evolving big picture of the moment.
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Mandelbrot RIP
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on Oct 17th, 2010 |
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BENOIT MANDELBROT
1924 — 2010
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, the maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday, October 14th in Cambridge at the age of 85. Dr. Mandelbrot was Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics) at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal” to refer to a new class of mathematical shapes whose uneven contours could mimic the irregularities found in nature. In a seminal book, The...
Future Shock at 40
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on Oct 14th, 2010 |
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The Future Lounge celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first and most influential book by futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Future Shock. Published in 1970, Future Shock referred to “too much change in too short a period of time.” The book contended that accelerated technological and social change would overwhelm people, leaving them disconnected and suffering from “shattering stress and disorientation” – future shocked. In discussing of the components of such shock, the Toffler’s popularized the term information overload and outlined the...
A Pessimistic Guide to the Next 10 Years
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on Oct 13th, 2010 |
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Douglas Coupland is a Canadian fiction writer and cultural commentator whose writing is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of his novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture.
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Welcome to the Future Dome
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on Oct 11th, 2010 |
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Digital domes, or “full-dome” video, the projection of megapixel digital imagery on dome screens have taken the planetarium profession by storm in the last decade. When artfully combined with narrative, music and surround audio they provide a compelling medium for the public assimilation of scientific knowledge and visuals into deeper personal and cultural meanings and further the quest to reveal the mysteries of the universe and render them understandable and accessible to all humanity. These presentations can assist the assimilation of knowledge into deeper personal and cultural...
Social Media Mixer
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on Sep 15th, 2010 |
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Social Media Mixer is a social networking event celebrating Social Media Week in Los Angeles, part of a multi-city global conference connecting people, content and conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media. Dozens of free events hosted at iconic locations all over the city will bring together CEO’s, entrepreneurs, journalists, bloggers, brand managers, CMO’s, social media strategists, artists, activists and the technology/media digerati. The momentum for the LA conference has been incredible. Most recently, the City of Los Angeles, the Financial...
Digital Prohibition?
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on Sep 1st, 2010 |
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I have some bad news for you: The more you email, tweet, post messages on Facebook, read blogs (including this one), the less clever you become. With the advent of ever more capable mobile devices, people are online all the time, everywhere. You see people texting while waiting in line for their coffee, while exercising in the gym, while going up or down in an elevator. The opportunities to make the tiniest windows of time productive or entertaining become almost endless. But the achievement comes at a price. Scientists are discovering an unexpected side effect: The higher digital...
Shocking
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on Aug 24th, 2010 |
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The Global Picture
Combining startling graphic imagery with truly shocking facts gathered from the world’s most authoritative sources, The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts is a powerful visual manifesto by the world’s most respected graphic designer, Jonathan Barnbrook and his studio. This small yet ethically driven book questions the status quo of global politics and highlights the inequalities and iniquities of rampant globalization.
Here’s just a few examples:
War: Between 1998 and 2007 global military spending increased by 45%.
Drugs: 80% of inmates in some U.K....
Pronoia Now!
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on Aug 17th, 2010 |
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DEFINITION: Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It’s the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It’s a mode of training your senses and intellect so you’re able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the secrets of becoming a wildly disciplined, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, scrupulously curious, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lyrically logical, lustfully compassionate Master of Rowdy Bliss.
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear...
The Future That Never Happened
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on Aug 10th, 2010 |
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Check out the August 2010 issue of Wired for the feature: Where’s the Future? Will Ferrell’s Tour of Tech That Never Took and take a playful look at the glorious scientific inventions that were supposed to transform the way the world works in the 21st century, but didn’t. The new piece features comic actor Will Ferrell, who wonders why the marvels we were promised haven’t materialized. Indeed, from laser guns to designer babies, it seems the fanciful future that was touted looks a lot more like the pedestrian past.
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Code Drift
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on Aug 5th, 2010 |
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CTHEORY is an international peer-reviewed journal of theory, technology and culture edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. Articles, interviews, and key book reviews in contemporary discourse are published weekly as well as theorizations of major “event-scenes” in the mediascape. CODE DRIFT: Essays in Critical Digital Studies is a special issue based on the work presented at two workshops held at the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Victoria and the first of a continuing series of publications and workshops on the digital future.
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The Future: How To Make Sense of It?
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on Aug 4th, 2010 |
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What is obvious: we are in an age of great change, due to the rapid pace in which technology is shaping our lives:
What’s not so obvious: our ability to make sense of what is happening cannot keep up with the pace of this change.
What we know: the sense-making process requires some degree of stability in order for the story to take hold. Paraphrasing Joseph Campbell: stories/myths have been created and were told over time because we have had ample opportunity to create some understanding of our environment. For instance: indigenous cultures may observe the cold weather changing to...
Countdown to Zero
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on Aug 4th, 2010 |
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We have now entered a second nuclear age with nuclear weapons in the hands of nine countries, and more working to construct them. Currently, there are 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world — most of them in the U.S. (9,400) and Russia (13,000) ready to launch at a moment’s notice. It is estimated that 166,000 people were killed from the single nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. When the Cold War ended, some people believed the danger had passed. Today, however, the threat posed by nuclear weapons is even more urgent. That is the message of Countdown to Zero, a film none...
Version
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on Aug 4th, 2010 |
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Version is an online journal for short-form writing and media work. It presents scenes, incidents, encounters, and sensory experiences drawn from everyday life, in which concepts are not only elaborated but enacted.
Version works in close-up, cultivating moods, atmospheres, and various forms of bodily apprehension and awareness. It aims for a quality of intimacy, presence, and affective charge: a material openness to unexpected forms of encounter. At the same time, it works laterally, conducting transversal operations across object-boundaries, attuned to the rhythms, flows, and...
Activate Yourself
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on Aug 3rd, 2010 |
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Revolution on a worldwide scale will unfold at a very slow pace. It is beginning to happen. What we need to do in order to recognize this fact is to stop thinking of revolution as a singular thing, as one great cataclysmic break. Instead, we should be asking ourselves what revolutionary action is. Revolutionary action does not necessarily have to be so grandiose… Something so small as attempting to create autonomous communities in the face of opposing power would, for instance, be revolutionary acts. If we accept this definition, then we accept the fact that quiet revolutions...
Guide to Community Cultural Development
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on Aug 2nd, 2010 |
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The Future Lounge invites you to enjoy this glossary of terms frequently used in community cultural development and planning.
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Artsworkers
- tends to be used instead of artist for two reasons. First, some professional community cultural development (CCD) workers will be involved in project design, management and evaluation rather than actual art making, and second, to acknowledge the additional range of skills CCD artists are need to employ. In addition to the artform expertise required to ensure excellent artistic outcomes, CCD...
A Brief Lexicon of Empowerment
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on Aug 1st, 2010 |
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Drawing extensively from The Future Lounge blogroll of Topics, it gives us great pleasure to proudly present a series of Wikipedia-linked terminologies specifically chosen to accelerate greater self-understanding, life-purpose and empowerment. These consciousness-raising concerns and curiosities reflect a wide-range of personal interests and represent subjects that are likely relevant to those creative future-orientated people interested and involved in helping and healing professions and practices. These are listed here in no particular order.
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Hubble 3D
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on Jul 27th, 2010 |
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Featuring stunning, on-orbit coverage of the STS-1256 Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble 3D chronicles the amazing saga of the greatest success in space since the Moon Landing. IMAX 3D cameras launched on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 11 , 2009. The astronauts operated the IMAX cameras and filmed the five intricate and difficult spacewalks required for the final service of the Hubble. The IMAX footage is combined with breathtaking up close images of distant galaxies from Hubble to capture the Hubble’s astonishing legacy for generations to come. See the Hubble 3D trailer.
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If Society Fell Apart, Would You?
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on Jul 27th, 2010 |
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What would you do in the wake of a global catastrophe? Even if you survived it, could you survive the aftermath?
Season Two of THE COLONY introduces viewers to a new group of volunteers with differing backgrounds, skills and personalities, to bear witness to how these colonists will survive and rebuild in a world without electricity, running water, government or outside communication. Over the course of 10 episodes, the colonists — who include a construction foreman, teacher, carpenter and auto mechanic — must work to utilize and strengthen their exploration, technology and...
The Stone
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on Jul 27th, 2010 |
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The Stone is a new New York Times opinion series featuring the writings of contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless — art, war, ethics, gender, popular culture and more. The series moderator is Simon Critchley, chair of philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York, who introduces The Stone with an examination of the question, What Is a Philosopher? In coming months, The Stone will include contributions from a rotating group of philosophers, including Nancy Bauer, Jay Bernstein, Arthur C. Danto, Todd May, Nancy Sherman, Peter Singer and others.
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State of the Future
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on Jul 25th, 2010 |
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The Millennium Project is an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. Founded in 1996, it manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 2,500 people since the beginning of the project selected by its 33 Nodes around the world. The work is distilled in its annual “State of the Future,” “Futures Research Methodology” series, and...
Best of the Blogroll
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on Jul 23rd, 2010 |
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Hungry for ideas but short on time? Kicking off a new ongoing guide to the diverse resources on this site, we present you with 12 randomly chosen selections from the mighty Future Lounge blogroll list — twelve mind-expanding doorways onto the world of creative knowledge that are guaranteed to please the wildest futuristic imagination. You are invited to plug into the mix and follow the muse to your own remix matrix, a distillation of the deeper connections of perceived meaning within the context of the greater whole evolving within this very moment.
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The Next 40 Years
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on Jul 17th, 2010 |
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This month’s Smithsonian Magazine is a special anniversary issue dedicated to the breakthroughs, trends and social forces likely to shape our world between now and 2050. “40 Things You Need to Know About the Next 40 Years” relates directly to features on energy, immigration, technology, population, medical science, oceans, climate change and more and includes contributions from President Barack Obama, Sir Richard Branson, Melinda Gates, James Cameron, George Lopez, Laurie Anderson and others.
For this issue, Smithsonian conducted an extensive national opinion survey...
Whole Brain Catalog
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on Jul 16th, 2010 |
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In the spirit of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog from the 60s, Adbusters #90: Whole Brain Catalog – Access to Therapies is a powerful new tool for navigating the anxious times ahead. The mental environment is now the terrain where our fate as humans will be decided. The issue includes: Chris Hedges on the cult of self and American psychosis; Ethan Watters on the Americanization of the world’s understanding of the human psyche; Mike Weilbacher on Last Child in the Woods; Blake Sifton on America’s Identity Crisis, and The Ecology of Mind by Micah White and Adbuster...
The Future is Aleatoric
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on Jul 15th, 2010 |
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The future is an uncertainty. The only thing certain is constant change. What part does chance play in the great scheme of things? We look to the art of the aleatoric for clues with a little help from our friends at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Aleatoricism is the creation of art by chance, exploiting the principle of randomness. The word derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice. Not to be confused with improvisation or indeterminacy, aleatoricism is harnessed through many forms of expressive action.
In literature, an example of aleatory writing is the automatic writing of...
What Futurists Actually Do
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on Jul 15th, 2010 |
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Enjoy this highly recommend introduction to GOOD‘s new series from the Institute for the Future by Mathias Crawford.
Never Google the word “futurist.” Besides the conflation with Futurism, the early 20th century fascist-leaning art movement, the world’s gateways to knowledge are far from instructive on the subject. Clichés and caricatures abound, with media coverage dominated by allusions to crystal balls and prophesy and the messianic predictions of techno-utopians. The general public’s sense of what futurists are is not entirely flattering, and rarely...
Building a Brighter Future
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on Jul 8th, 2010 |
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All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of a single candle.
The Current Situation
Together, we can and will build a brighter future. Yet in order to give meaningful suggestions for this, we first need to speak candidly about what’s happening in the world at present. It appears that there are factions within the world’s power elite which desire to exert as much control as possible over the world. Their primary means for establishing control are through promoting fear, secrecy, and polarization, and through distracting people from their deeper purpose in...
14 Tips for Becoming an Active Futurist
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on Jul 7th, 2010 |
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Looking for ways to become more future-activist? Check out these tips and suggestions by Alireza Hejazi of Futures Discovery.
1. Be Open to New Ideas
Have you ever heard anything about “bicameral mind” theory offered by Julian Jaynes? He was a Princeton University psychologist who died at the age of 77. He is famous for one book only: “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,” first published in 1976. Although Jaynes’ perspective is not directly related to Futures Studies, he gives a new...
The Secret Powers of Time
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on Jul 5th, 2010 |
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GRASPING THE PARADOXICAL NATURE OF TIME is one of the most crucial understandings a future-orientated person can have. Among other things, time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships, and how we act in the world. In this delightful RSAnimation created by Cognitive Media, join Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and perhaps the most distinguished psychologist alive today, as he expertly conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our lives, work, health, and overall well-being.
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12 Events That Will Change Everything
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on Jun 30th, 2010 |
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Science can transform our conception of the universe and our place in it, helping us understand and cope with changes beyond our control. This special interactive infographic of the feature, “12 Events That Will Change Everything,” which appeared in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American, confronts with twelve plausible and pivotal things like contact with aliens, cloned people, nuclear wars, extra dimensions and asteroid impacts that are most likely to happen by 2050. According to the Editors, these events, both natural and man-made, can happen suddenly and at any...
Quotes To Live By
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on Jun 22nd, 2010 |
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Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it
is the only thing that ever has.
–Margaret Mead
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Ten Suggestions for Effective Activism
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on Jun 21st, 2010 |
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Effective activism’s a long-haul process, not “save the earth in 30 days, ask me how.” But there are some principles that seem to reoccur for people addressing every kind of challenge from the Gulf Oil spill to inadequate funding for urban schools to how to deal with Afghanistan and Iraq. When I was updating Soul of a Citizen, an activist rabbi who was teaching the book at Florida Gulf Coast University suggested I gather together the Ten Commandments for effective citizen engagement. Calling them Commandments seemed a bit presumptuous, but I did draw together ten suggestions...
Before the Music Dies
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on Jun 15th, 2010 |
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Before the Music Dies is a documentary that explores the reason why so few companies currently control the music played on the radio and for sale at retail stores, and whether corporations really have the power to silence musical innovation. Filmmaker Andrew Shapter shows the development of American music, using artists to reveal a current schism in the field, which separates into a homogenous corporate product and into more innovative and distinct work. Before the Music Dies is a great primer for those unaware of the reasons for the decline of popular music in the US. Ever wonder why...
Inform, Inspire, Act
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on Jun 13th, 2010 |
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TakePart.com is an independent online community that connects its members directly to the issues that inspire them to engage, contribute and take action. Their team of editors, writers, and researchers curate and deliver actions in context with in-depth primers to the social, environmental, political and cultural issues of our day.
TakePart’s growing global community includes citizens, activists, and large and small non-profits. They invite local and community groups to interact, explore issues, share resources, develop campaigns and use their platform to promote the causes they...
State of the Arts
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on Jun 10th, 2010 |
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On Saturday, June 19th 2010 c3: VisionLAB will present STATE OF THE ARTS: a symposium addressing future trends in the Arts and Media and their function in Culture and Society. Inspired in part by the LA Opera Ring, this inquiry will function as a celebration of the Ring Festival LA and key themes around Richard Wagner, as well as serve as an inaugural event that will launch the creation of a global arts and media node in partnership with the The Millennium Project and the 2009 State of the Future annual report. This unique symposium will function as a transdisciplinary inquiry into...
Summer Hot List
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on Jun 7th, 2010 |
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As the sun gets hotter we offer up some excellent ways to keep cool
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Article: Why the Internet Is Ground 0 in Global Consciousness War
Zine: Scientific American’s 12 Events That Will Change Everything
Confab: VisionLAB’s State of the Arts Symposium
Event: Mindshare LA’s enlightened debauchery
Drink: Solixer’s sparkling botanical blends
Catalog: Adbusters Whole Brain Catalog
Music: Futurechill by Mars Mercury
Channel: Current’s The...
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
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on May 26th, 2010 |
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The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is a US nonprofit organization that promotes and publicizes the work of thinkers who examine the social implications of scientific and technological progress. Founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James J. Hughes, the IEET seeks to contribute to the understanding of the impact of emerging technologies on individuals and societies. It also aims to shape public policies that distribute the benefits and reduce the risks of technological advancement.
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies was formed to...
Quotes To Live By
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on May 19th, 2010 |
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The future belongs to
those who believe in
the beauty of their dreams.
–Eleanor Roosevelt
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Gulf + Oil = Catastrophe
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on May 19th, 2010 |
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THE DEEP HORIZON INCIDENT, a catastrophe of epic proportions, is an outrage and a tragedy, simple as that. Read about it here:
As Oiltastrophe Rages on, Public Health in Danger
http://act.commondreams.org/go/811?akid=70.87233.4xPxyR&t=2
BP Oil Spill Confirmed as Worst in U.S. History; Environmental Groups Challenge Continued Oil Operations in Gulf Excluded from New Moratorium
http://act.commondreams.org/go/813?akid=70.87233.4xPxyR&t=6
Live Coverage from BP’s Oil Volcano
http://act.commondreams.org/go/799?akid=70.87233.4xPxyR&t=12
Medea Benjamin | Getting Naked to Expose...
The Doomsday Clock
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on May 14th, 2010 |
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a vital resource that informs the public about threats to the survival and development of humanity from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in the life sciences. Through an award-winning magazine, our online presence, and the Doomsday Clock, it reaches policy leaders and audiences around the world with information and analysis about efforts to address the dangers and prevent catastrophe. With fellowships for students and awards to young journalists, they help educate the next generation.
The Bulletin of the Atomic...
The Meaning of the 21st Century
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on May 10th, 2010 |
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James Martin is a world renowned author, philanthropist and pioneering information technologist, business leader and social entrepreneur in the fields of digital technology, education, and international development. The British-born Pulitzer nominee for his 1977 book The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow is known as “the Guru of the Information Age” and is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the social and commercial ramifications of computers. In addition to an MA in Physics and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford, Martin has honorary doctorates from all...
Our Bodies, Our Quantified Selves
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on May 4th, 2010 |
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How well do you know yourself? How well, quantifiably?
At one time these questions may have prompted self-reflection or even deep, psychological analysis. But new technologies are now affording a completely different take on this old question. A growing movement in self-tracking–most commonly known as Quantified Self or Lifeblogging–explores this riddle with the gimlet-eyed clarity of an actuary accountant, poring over Excel spreadsheets and Processing data visualizations.
The Quantified Self movement is a hyper self-reporting strategy that sheds light on our everyday...
Quotes To Live By
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on Apr 26th, 2010 |
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Take hold of
your future
or the future
will take hold
of you.
–Patrick Dixon
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Headlines
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on Apr 26th, 2010 |
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April’s hot stories and articles courtesy of Common Dreams
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The Obscenity of War
‘Food Hero’ says to Value Soil, Not Oil
Walmart: The Inhuman Essence of a Corporate ‘Person’
EFF Backs Yahoo! to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search
Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People: New Book
Viacom’s Legal Attack on YouTube Threatens Online Speech and Innovation
Your Tax Dollars at War: More Than 53% of Your Tax Payment Goes to...
The Warrior Diet
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on Apr 26th, 2010 |
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Along with the many benefits of leisure-class living comes obesity and its attendant ailments. In The Warrior Diet, Ori Hofmekler looks not forward but backward for a solution–to the primal habits of early cultures such as nomads and hunter-gatherers, the Greeks, and the Romans. Based on survival science, this book proposes not ordinary dietary changes but rather a radical yet surprisingly simple lifestyle overhaul.
Drawing on both scientific studies and historical data, Hofmekler argues that robust health and a lean, strong body can best be achieved by mimicking the...
Five Ways To Help Save Life on Earth
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on Apr 25th, 2010 |
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40 years after the first Earth Day, we’re still staring down the barrel of environmental catastrophe. Here are five big approaches we can take to saving life on the planet. Courtesy of AlterNet by Tara Lohan
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Quotes To Live By
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on Apr 24th, 2010 |
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Do not go where
the path may lead,
go instead where
there is no path
and leave a trail.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Scientist
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on Apr 23rd, 2010 |
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The Scientist follows a brilliant physicist, Dr. Marcus Ryan (Bill Sage), who anguishes over the tragic death of his wife and daughter while secretly constructing a mysterious energy generator in his basement. The multi-dimensional energy unleashed by the machine triggers a series of events that propels Ryan toward a higher level of consciousness. In short, it is a story about traveling from the darkness into the Light.
The film stars Bill Sage (Precious, American Psycho) and Adam Lefevre (She’s Out of My League, The Bounty Hunter) and is the US theatrical film...
Top Trends of 2010
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on Apr 23rd, 2010 |
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The purpose of trend forecasting is to provide insights and directions in anticipation of what the future may bring – and to be prepared for the unexpected. Gerald Celente, a Close Combat practitioner and black belt trainer, well understands the importance of proacting rather than reacting: “The first rule of Close Combat is to attack the attacker. Action is faster than reaction. The same holds true for the future. You know the future is coming … attack it before it attacks you.”
Celente is a pioneer trend strategist. He is author of the national bestseller Trends 2000 and...
Digital Detox Week April 19-25
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on Apr 18th, 2010 |
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We are all living through the digital revolution, an amazing, exciting time where knowledge is free and the world is at our fingertips. But there is a dark side to our digital emancipation. Jumping brain syndrome, decreased creativity, isolation and depression all stem from an overload of instantly accessible media.
Next week during Digital Detox Week, Adbusters urges us to take some time to pull back from the wired world and assess the damage. Rethink our love affair with technology, stop obsessing over our virtual life, get outside and reignite our relationships with each other. We...
George Leonard 1923-2012
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on Apr 17th, 2010 |
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George Leonard, President Emeritus of Esalen Institute and one of the giants of the Human Potential Movement through the second half of the 20th Century, died peacefully at his home in Mill Valley California, surrounded by friends and family, on January 6, 2010. Often called the “third Founder” of Esalen for his decades of leading contributions to the Institute and its work, George Leonard was one of the leading voices of the past two generations in shaping American culture and our world today. Read more at http://www.esalen.org/tributes/george-leonard.html.
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World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
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on Apr 14th, 2010 |
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Talks will give a voice to world’s poorest and encourage governments to be ambitious after Copenhagen…
In what is becoming the hippest environment meeting of the year, presidents, politicians, intellectuals, scientists and Hollywood stars will join more than 15,000 indigenous people and thousands of grass roots groups from more than 100 countries to debate climate change in one of the world’s poorest nations.
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth which opens next week in the small Bolivian town of Cochabamba, will have no...
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