Bookmarks tagged with Futurism
Moon Life
Moon Life speculates on the possibility that humans will live in space in the future. The project examines the potentialities and challenges of life on the Moon not only in the fields of architecture and design but also for social, public and political life. Artists, architects and designers are encouraged to radical thinking towards concepts of habitat design for the Moon to create a platform for the public to engage with these notions and discuss the ‘publicness’ of the possibility for living on the Moon.
SOL 2012
SOL, a continuously staffed library in the high mountains. The SOL research facility will preserve backups/copies of scientific and cultural achievements important to mankind. SOL will aim to safeguard important world culture and literature from future natural and unnatural calamities. In the event of a global crisis, the SOL station will be prepared to reintroduce lost knowledge, and even help to re-establish society again.
Mataha Foundation
The Mataha Foundation’s mission is to ensure the continuation of human culture. The organization contributes to this goal through research, preservation work and the promotion of art, science and spirituality. The Mataha Foundation pursues this goal by realizing and supporting holistic projects that draw on knowledge of the past and present to enhance the cultural, scientific and spiritual prosperity of future generations.
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.
Constantinos A. Doxiadis
"What human beings need is not utopia ('no place') but entopia ('in place') a real city which they can build, a place which satisfies the dreamer and is acceptable to the scientist, a place where the projections of the artist and the builder merge."
Beyond the Beyond - Wired Blogs
I'm Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, critic, blogger. I'm best known for writing science fiction novels, but I like to go mess around with all kinds of weird events, places and issues in order to introduce some useful grit into my compositional process.
IFTF's Future Now
The Institute for the Future is an independent nonprofit research group. We work with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. We provide the foresight to create insights that lead to action. We take an explicitly global approach to strategic planning, linking macro trends to local issues in such areas as technology and society, health and health care, and global business trends.
TED: Ideas worth spreading
Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers
Futurismic
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future
WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together.
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