I have written before about how unprofessional it is for journalists and bloggers to say, "it may sound like science fiction but...." This statement is a reflection of the popular disdain for science fiction and of anyone who looks at the future. After the decades of journalists writing about science fiction predicting that which is … Continue reading Common Mistakes When Thinking About the Future
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My latest trend alert has been posted on machine translation, a near term maturing technology. Here is the repost with the original link: Breaking Language Barriers Learning a foreign language is exceedingly difficult for many people, but digital technology is making modest translations of text and voice faster, easier, and more accessible. Machine translators (MT) … Continue reading Breaking the Language Barrier
A friend and I have decided to try starting a more intensive blogging site. ad Futura is intended to be a foresight magazine for the masses--popular foresight in the same meaning as Popular Mechanics or Popular Science. ad Futura is taken from the latin to mean "to the future." We actually borrowed the often quoted … Continue reading ad Futura
I was lucky enough to take a holiday over Christmas, and my wife and I were able to visit my parents in the States. So, I was in a little bit of a rush to finish all my most pressing work at the beginning of December. While I still had plenty of work to finish … Continue reading Regulating Nanotechnologies
In the US, the Pew Research Center reports that Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. Likewise in the UK, IPPR reports that women are seeing severe discrimination when trying to borrow from British banks. It's not a big surprise to any cynic that minorities are hit the hardest in times of economic crisis, … Continue reading Minorities in Recession?
