Barring the invention of a stupidly cheap and non-polluting superfuel (or better still but more unlikely, some kind of antigravity propulsion system), the age of cheap and ubiquitous air travel is going to have to end, by choice or otherwise. Continue reading “Armchair Travel”
Will the human race exist in 100 years’ time?
That’s the question posed by the people at Seed magazine to their stable of science bloggers. Continue reading “Will the human race exist in 100 years’ time?”
Tags: Blogging, future, Futurism, human, hundred, prediction, race, Science, speculation, Transhumanism, years
Autopia Ampere: The City From the Sea
Carbon Dioxide…it’s bad news, that stuff. Causing us no end of problems at the moment. But a lot of it gets absorbed by the sea. So why don’t we use it for something (literally) constructive? Continue reading “Autopia Ampere: The City From the Sea”
Digital libraries
The European Commission have been holding their first summit on digital libraries. From PhysOrg.com:
“Our goal is to make Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage available to all European citizens and researchers for their studies, work or leisure. With its immense expertise and knowledge, this group can make an essential contribution to the European digital library,” said Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding.
This is a subject close to my heart in many ways. As I am sure I have mentioned before, I am a book junkie. I love books; I couldn’t imagine life without them, fact or fiction, whatever – books are great things. I am also a library employee, and it is plain to see (from the inside at least) that as an industry we are somewhat flat on our arses thanks to a lack of funding from the government. Falling rates of use have been met with cuts in funding, creating a vicious spiral of decline. Libraries desperately need to modernise and move with the times… Continue reading “Digital libraries”
UK Government looks to the future
The last thing I would ever have accused the UK goverment of doing would have been thinking ahead. Continue reading “UK Government looks to the future”
Tags: colonies, Environment, future, Futurism, government, infrastructure, planning, resources, transport, UK, urban
Publisher decides to pre-empt Google book scan project
As a library employee and lover of books, I’ve been following the ongoing ‘upload-the-books’ debate as closely as I have been able to, given time restrictions (y’know, full time employment, feeding myself, my online writing jobs and, of course, this here blog). Continue reading “Publisher decides to pre-empt Google book scan project”
Welcome, Futurismic readers!
Hello there! I’m hoping that the inclusion of a link to VCTB on the front page of Futurismic is going to bring me a bit of click-through…this week’s site stats should tell me if that’s the case or not. Continue reading “Welcome, Futurismic readers!”
Tabletop Fusion gets another crack of the whip
Nature.com reports on Rusi Taleyarkhan of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is once again courting controversy with his claims for the efficacy of ultrasound to induce fusion in the form of collapsing bubbles in deuterium enriched acetone. Continue reading “Tabletop Fusion gets another crack of the whip”
