Lawyers are under a “huge threat” and risk being run out of business unless they come to grips with a new legal order instead of trusting that big profits will bounce back when the economy recovers, says a legal futurist.
Lawyers are under a “huge threat” and risk being run out of business unless they come to grips with a new legal order instead of trusting that big profits will bounce back when the economy recovers, says a legal futurist.
Working in Silicon Valley has not traditionally been the best way to cultivate a fashion sense. Spending all your time coding with fellow nerds, working weird hours at companies that began in their founders garagesit all has led to a pretty simple dress code: jeans and a tee-shirt, more often than not. (Add a turtleneck for stage presentations if you happen to be Steve Jobs.) Then, around a …
The Anybots telepresence robot promises to give remote workers the experience of actually being there. We spent a week with one to see how it works. Anybots – Robotics – Telepresence – Robot – Competitions
Four who grooved to the space age After all, the future is scary, but the past is fun. Stereolab Inside the retro-futuristic world of Stereo Total. By Jonathan Donaldson. The ’90s produced a generation of musicians gorged on the pop culture of the ’60s and ’70s who conceived themselves as simultaneously retro and futuristic. After all, the future is scary, but the past is fun. Picking up on …
One futurist’s vision of the coming interface singularity contrasts with the reality of today’s prototypes. Reto Meier, an “Android Developer Advocate for Google” recently laid out a fairly science-fiction account of where computer (or at least mobile) interfaces are headed.
There are thousands to choose from, but here are a couple dozen that caught our attention. SXSW Interactive – Fast Company – Arts – Richard Nash – Publishing
A brilliant essay outlines a new path for thinking about the future of reading and writing Publishing – Jason Kottke – Technology – Futurism – Shopping
# androidapps There was a time, before GTA, when parents let their children play video gamesas long as those games were Windows freebies like Hover! and SkiFree . Or Win95 screensaver “game” 3D Maze , which has reappeared as a Layar add-on. More »
New Wave godfather Gary Numan will cross the Atlantic this fall to perform his 1979 album The Pleasure Principle in its entirety — replete with its iconic single, “Cars” — on a slew of North American tour dates. See the full schedule below! Numan is celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Pleasure Principle , which SPIN dubbed “a study in droll futurism,” calling “Cars” “a Beach Boys song …
In his self-portrait, Stefano Savioli looks a little like the singular Dutch post-Impressionist who became famous only after his tragic life ended. Same deep, cruel lines. Same wild colours.
Prolific author of exhilarating works of ‘hard’ science fiction James P Hogan, who has died aged 69, was the author of 30 science-fiction novels and five collections of short stories and essays. His work was generally considered “hard” SF technologically possible and adhering mostly to scientific fact and his best work was an exhilarating mix of optimistic futurism and a central mystery to …
First came the beams of light, each one tracing an ellipse on the stage. Still as statues, dressed in robot gear, the four Black Eyed Peas emerged from trapdoors at the start of their Wednesday night concert at the…
Listening to the car radio one morning, I took in an interview with a Matt Novak, an American who collects past visions about the future and posts them on his website, paleofuture.com.
This week I have reinstated the Singles Bike Ride system of appreciating music and then writing about it. I dont know why I abandoned it. What a fool.
I came across a quote from John Waters in the current issue of Juxtapose magazine that neatly threaded together three things in a way I hadn’t previously realized: What I loved most about his last solo exhibition (titled “Rush” at Rena Bransten Gallery , San Francisco, May 27 through July 10), one of the primary draws I have to looking at art, and why I’m also so drawn to the current solo …
There are many ways to view the lush, colorful, dreamlike and apparently naive art of Marc Chagall, one of the undoubted greats of 20th-century painting. “Marc Chagall and the Russian Avant-garde, from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou” at The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of Arts, makes a brave attempt to set him within the context of his times, something that doesn’t quite work …
Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock was first published in July 1970. The book includes insights into the effects of rapidly changing technology and “information overload.” People may not be as shocked by change as 81-year-old Toffler had imagined, but he says there’s still value in envisioning possibilities.
Ringling Bros. is for kids; for a real circus experience this summer, Littlefields got you covered.On July 31, party people Gemini and Scorpio throw The Lost Circus, a late-night extravaganza at the Gowanus space where the big top and cabaret collide.Theres no wheel of death or…
If nothing is enough, why have any more? The difficulty is that nothing cannot be achieved. We might well be satisfied with nothing, but we can’t get hold of it. Everything is something. Every gesture, however we strive to empty it, is loaded. The aim of minimalism in a universe of loaded gestures is to arrive at the emptiest possible gesture. A minimalist masterpiece is a gesture that …
Residents have voiced a lot of concern since it was announced that county libraries could be cut, and some of those residents gathered at the Yreka Library on Thursday to hear how state officials might be able to help change the situation.
I’m less certain, however, that the industry is sending readers and advertisers a clear signal of what newspapers are changing into. Or, for that matter, that the execs know themselves where they are headed.
It may not be as immediately easy to love as Autechre ’s last, but a real heartbeat lurks just beneath the surface, perhaps closer to fully revealing its personality than their music has been for quite some time.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PC) From the return of complex A.I. to mechanical augmentations.
Yes, the future comes in dystopian hues, but there are also moments of peace