Sawyer and Schroeder on the future, improvements outpace planned obsolescence, Doctorow interviewed…

• 1 – Here’s looking at you, kid
  What will the future hold for the first-borns of 2007? The Toronto Sun talks to Schroeder and Sawyer (and others) for some heavy futurism. Put my name down for an implanted computer!
  (tags: interview authors writers sf scifi fiction science Sawyer Robert Schroeder Karl foresight predictions technology futurism)
• 2 – Product Improvements Outpacing Even Planned Obsolescence?
  “…a new article suggests that even planned obsolescence is a thing of the past as the pace of innovation is such that people feel compelled to upgrade relatively quickly, not waiting for their gadgets to break.”
  (tags: replacement upgrade obsolescence planned technology gadgets)
• 3 – France: UFO sightings are no X-Files
  “The French space agency plans to publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online but keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from the pestering of space fanatics.” Via Engadget.
  (tags: release archive records phenomena sightings conspiracy UFO agency space France)
• 4 – CSI: TCP/IP
  “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Why the Pentagon’s toughest Internet crime fighter likes hanging out with blackhat hackers.” Like a Stross novel, but real.
  (tags: security research network contact hackers black-hat crime internet Pentagon DOD US)
• 5 – ‘The Edge’ Annual Question — 2007 : “WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? WHY?”
  “While conventional wisdom tells us that things are bad and getting worse, scientists and the science-minded among us see good news in the coming years.” Lots to read and mull over here.
  (tags: trends thinking philosophy optimism opinion knowledge ideas analysis futurism 2007)
• 6 – Some ideas for achieving your goals in 2007
  Tobias Buckell extols the virtues of ‘credible threat’ to get results with new year’s resolutions. Food for thought.
  (tags: leverage psychological personal threat credible goals achive resolutions)
• 7 – Cory Doctorow interviewed at SFRevu
  “You could give writers a million years of copyright and the right to behead people who infringe their rights and it wouldn’t change the word-rate at Asimov’s.”
  (tags: economics creativity p2p copyright interview author writer sf scifi fiction science Doctorow Cory)

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