Future @ AT 304

This is a school presentation about the Future.
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Transcript

7. 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar. 2023 Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires in the United States under current copyright law. 2134 Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System
9. „There hasn't been a ground-breaking new vision of technological futures in at least 10 years, probably closer to 15. The closest thing to an emerging paradigm of technological futures concerns the role of sensors and mobile cameras in terms of privacy, surveillance, and power. [...] In many ways, we can argue that the major drivers of The Future, over the past decade and very likely to continue for some time, areprimarily socio-cultural.“ – Jamais Cascio, openthefuture.com
10. •The effective collapse of American hegemony. •The inability/unwillingness of world leaders to respond to global warming. •The death spiral of the European Union. •Accelerating economic inequality. •Major changes to global demographics, especially population forecasts. •The unregulated expansion of financial instruments based on little more than betting on other financial instruments. •That the Koreas would remain divided. •That there hasn't been a major biological, radiological, or nuclear terror event. •The speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world. •The Arab Spring, Occupy, Tea Party, and similar bottom-up political movements.
13. „The power of counterfactual thinking is that forces us to step outside of our comfort zones. When we think about historical events, we forget how confusing and uncertain they were at the time ...“ – Niall Ferguson
17. „Futurology“ „Future studies“ „Predictions“
21. „The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.“ – William Gibson
22. Cyberspace
23. Hype Time Space Space Hypersurface of the present Future Light Cone Past Light Cone Observer
25. „ It’s not a kind of fiction. It’s a kind of design. It tells worlds rather than stories.“
27. „We need a new concept of futurity whose image is not static, dated tinytape of the past’s future. We need a dynamic, interactive medium–we need to invent a general-purpose cultural interface for time.“ – Bruce Sterling
30. „To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.“ – Warren Ellis
32. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2012
34. „The Shitty Technolgical Singularity“
37. „When you cut into the present the future leaks out.“ – William Burroughs