The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented public health crisis highlighting many of the gaps in modern society that are unable to cope with ‘black swan’ events. Fortunately, people are also realising that many of the professions we take for granted (from nurses to garbage collectors) are vital parts of a functioning society and deserve greater… Continue Reading
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Philip K. Dick Film Festival Announces 8th Annual Award Winners for 2020
Thankfully avoiding the widespread shutdowns of events around the globe (including the Tribeca Film Festival that has been postponed), the PKD Film Festival completed another successful year and has announced winners for its 8th annual awards. The festival featured a lineup of screenings, premieres, panels, virtual reality demonstrations and the launch of a new screenplay… Continue Reading
Alternative Storytelling: An Interview with Daniel Abella, Founder of the Philip K Dick Film Festival
It has been almost three years since we last interviewed the founder of the Philip K Dick Film Festival, Daniel Abella, as it now enters its eighth consecutive year. Daniel returns for us today, on the opening day of the festival, to answer a few more questions. I was also fortunate enough this year to… Continue Reading
Top 10 Futurist Websites (2020 Edition)
Eight years ago I put together a list of the Top 10 Futurist Websites, a post that continues to be the most popular on the site. Now that it’s 2020 and the future is officially here, the time has come to update the list and see if anything has changed. Interestingly, all of the sites… Continue Reading
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[Review] Moving to Mars at the Design Museum
The colonisation of Mars is on the horizon. Although we might not meet the ambitious timelines put forward by a private company such as SpaceX (a million people on Mars by 2050), and the headline-grabbing PR effort that was Mars One went quietly bankrupt last year, there are still a number of more measured government-backed… Continue Reading
Artificial Evidence and the Death of Public Truth
Truth in the public sphere is dying and there doesn’t seem to be much we can do to stop it from happening. What’s needed is a movement towards critical thinking and interrogation of all narratives presented to the public, building a more nuanced picture of truth that does not merely rely on what were previously… Continue Reading