Another year, some more predictions on the Future Conscience blog. Here are seven trends to look for in 2014.… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Communications & Technology
Bitcoin: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Bitcoin is the new media darling, but is it the right kind of attention? Is Bitcoin something you should be paying attention to? What is the good, the bad, and the ugly about this new cryptocurrency?… Continue Reading
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[Review] Propaganda: Power and Persuasion
Expectations were set high for the British Library’s most recent look at the history of propaganda – the methods it uses, the topics it focuses on and the ubiquity of its existence.… Continue Reading
Stop Watching Us! PRISM, Surveillance and the Hierarchy of Privacy
The dramatic travels of Edward Snowden keep us suitably enthralled, however it’s important that we don’t allow a focus on the whistleblower to overshadow the far more impacting societal issues the saga continues to shine light upon.… Continue Reading
Kickstarter Roundup for Futurists – May/June 2013
Crowdsourced funding is going from strength to strength these days, and when the Pebble ePaper Watch achieved more than 10,000% of its funding goal to raise $10,266,845 the new era had officially arrived.… Continue Reading
Taking a Digital Holiday: Are We Digital Natives or Addicts?
It was quite clear that I had become habitual in my smartphone use over and beyond its capacity to enhance my lifestyle, mindless in my use that allowed impulsive behaviour patterns to lead the way. I was a digital addict, and my paraphernalia of choice was manufactured by Samsung working in tandem with those Android peddlers over at Google.… Continue Reading