A collection of online discoveries about the future (week 15/2011) includes e.g. a timeline of inventions in science fiction, examples of new kinetic architecture, insights about “resilience” theory/design, social analytics report 2011 and how the space travelers get lucky…
Online discoveries (week 14/2011) include e.g. deep thoughts about design principles, neuroscience of music, patterns for communication revolution, what’s iPad really for and recent views about our instinct to belief in supernatural. Have a look!
During the last year, I’ve been discussing many times about the role of reading and writing in a creative process and future thinking. Does reading/writing lead to concrete actions or rather, make you sink deeper into the world of abstractions and speculations?
Some short reflections and thought sketches (or the micro-evolution of ideas revealed part 2, if you will). In the real-time web perception becomes reality. Information and experiences have to be provided in snack-sized portions and facile packages to catch the attention of “infoholics”…
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My full-length article “FutureSelf: Emerging digitized life patterns and a personal future simulation system” was just published in internationally acknowledged “Futures, The journal of policy, planning and futures studies” (Volume 42, Issue 9, November 2010, Pages 981-994). The article concentrates on personal future simulation systems that enable the creation of micro-future scenarios…