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WorldFuture Preview: Lee Rainie and Brian David Johnson Forecast the Next 10 Years of the Web, Entertainment, and Human Life
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Future of the City: Virtual Mirrors
Disney's EPCOT Center pays tribute to Walt Disney’s dream of what the city of the future might look like, or more accurately what that city might contain. This "Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow" would have plenty of robots, to be sure. He envisioned a city that would entertain, inform, foster human connection and collaboration, improve overall quality of life, and serve its inhabitants...And though the two parts of EPCOT are separated from one another for the sake of entertainment, staging and creating the magic for which Disney is so very famous, it’s in the meshing of these two images that a more accurate "city of tomorrow" is realized.
The Rise of the SuperProfessor
For colleges and universities, the great age of experimentation is now upon us.Harvard and MIT recently announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.
The Minerva Project recently announced it will become the first elite American University to be launched in over a century, at the same time, transforming every aspect of the university-student relationship. The Ronin Institute is promising to reinvent academia, but without the academy.
Will Iran get to the Moon?
On February 29, 2012, Iran’s Alborz Space Center, with much public fanfare, was opened to the international media for the first time. Situated 40 miles west of Tehran, the space facility is one of the keystones of the country’s ambitious space program, which has plans to land an astronaut on the moon by 2025.
The Theory of Opposites (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Amendment One)
The Internet is lit up with hand-wringing about a referendum in North Carolina regarding the passage of a referendum aimed at making gay marriage illegal in the state forever more. On Facebook, Twitter and in the comments sections of all the usual Internet hangouts, well-thinking people are lamenting this step toward a new Dark Ages, a further deepening of injustice, a coarsening of society.
More Eyes in the Sky
While a solo unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is starting to become a common sight over war zones and, to a lesser extent, over civilian communities, researchers in Germany are taking on the next great challenge: UAVs that fly in pack formations.
The Coming Bubble of Obsolete Advice
Last week I read a piece in Forbes about how young people today should not complain about "underemployment," the phenomenon of working part-time or at a job unsuited to one's level of education.
The 22nd Century at First Light: Envisioning Life in the Year 2100
When imagining the changes we may see by the turn of the next century, we might no longer find it very useful to look back to changes occurring in the same amount of time in the past. Eighty-eight years ago, in 1924, movies were silent, and the Great Depression was an inconceivable wild card. But change is accelerating exponentially, as The Singularity Is Near author Ray Kurzweil has argued, and the next 88 years could see the equivalent of the last 10,000 years worth of change.