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Future @ AT 304

Future @ AT 304

This is a school presentation about the Future.
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Filip Dědic

March 24, 2013
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  1. 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
  2. „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
  3. •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.
  4. „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
  5. „The future is already here — it's just not very

    evenly distributed.“ – William Gibson
  6. „ It’s not a kind of fiction. It’s a kind

    of design. It tells worlds rather than stories.“
  7. „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
  8. „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