Here’s an interesting question, and one that raises a number of points for us at Future Conscience: are educational institutions doing enough to address the reality of the workplace in the twenty first century?
Category Archives: Lifestyle & Society
Down at the pub with Kim Stanley Robinson, Geoff Ryman and Paul McAuley
In conjunction with New Scientist’s recent special on science fiction, they held a meetup in a pub with some of the greatest sci-fi writers of the current era. This intimate and relaxed setting was an experiment for New Scientist, we were told, and developed out of a somewhat failed attempt at a much larger event.
New Scientist and the return of science fiction
New Scientist today released a great issue, which has a number of pages devoted to the genre of sci-fi overseen by one of the genre’s masters Kim Stanley Robinson.
Ethical Blogging: Why do you want to blog?
One of the things that every blogger has in common is that first moment of inspiration, that point where we say to ourselves ‘I’m going to start a blog!’. So I wanted to look at what makes a good basis for starting a blog. What are the ethical ways to start blogging? More importantly, are there any unethical reasons for wanting to blog?
Ethical Blogging: Black, white, grey hat SEO?
I found this great post over on SiteProNews that explores the ethics of search-engine optimisation (SEO), and just who gets to define what is and isn’t acceptable (hint: Google). It really is a great introduction to some of the ethical issues that surround blogging as a medium, and I want to use it as a chance to spring-board a new post series that I will be beginning in the very near future.
District 9: Future ethics through alien eyes
Science fiction has always been a bastion for social commentary, and the latest cinematographic effort in the form of District 9 is no different. By planting the action in an accurate real-world setting, with believable motivations and agendas from all parties involved, the mirror is once more held up to our social conscience – and the result is anything but flattering.