ARTICLES

Lady Gaga and the Dead-Planet Grotesque

Over the last year Lady Gaga has come to embody—for me and, I imagine, for her fans—a kind of posthuman life strategy... (March 2010)

Get Up Make Love: 21st Sentury Space Sexploration

I can't say that I'm particularly surprised by Obama's new plan to scarper plans of government-funded human space exploration... (February 2010)

Lost in the Filth Simulacrum

They say the children are our future. But if 4chan is any indication of what they have in store for us, we are in for a very rough time indeed... (December 2009)

Interview With Alexander de Laiglesia

Alexander de Laiglesia is currently Managing Director at Banco Santander's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong... (March 2009)

What We Can Learn From Iceland

I landed in Reykjavik on a cheap flight shortly after the fall of Iceland. It looked normal, but then, prices were equal to the dollar instead of nine times it. What was once Europe’s most expensive city was now looking positively affordable... (March 2009)

The Cloud of Unknowing: Web 3.0, Cloud Computing and the Future of the Internet

Web 3.0 and Cloud Computing—catch-all terms for the next developmental stage of the Internet, from 2010-2020—are poised to change our lives at the most fundamental levels. The Internet up this point has been the warm-up... (September 2008)

The Pitch: Save the Tasmanian Devil

Tasmanian Devils, the rather unpleasant animal that inspired the Warner Bros cartoon character, are dying from an infectious face cancer caused by industrial pollutants. The Tasmanian government needs money in order to save the species. Somehow, this became my job... (July 2008)

The Pitch: Planet Green

Pitch mode. It’s harsh. It’s brutal. You’re up all night filling notebooks with ideas, every night, until the job gets done. Social relations take a back seat. Meals get eaten in front of the computer. You take cabs home at 2 AM each night only to wake up at 7 and do it all again... (July 2008)

Another Mr. Lizard

Recently I rewatched The Persuaders, Douglas Rushkoff’s PBS documentary about the advertising industry, during the course of a pitch I was working on for some PBS advertising. It’s a great TV adaptation of some of his research in Coercion, my favorite of his books (I once edited a companion to it)... (July 2008)

Interview With Jamais Cascio

Jamais Cascio is a writer, ethical futurist and co-founder of WorldChanging. He also blogs at Open the Future. He is a Global Futures Strategist for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. Jamais was a natural person to ask about the Future of Green... (May 2008)

Can Green Business Survive the Red Tape?

With the world entering a recession, how will the green movement fare? Is green, in fact, essential to how business must be done in this century, or is it just another luxury? (May 2008)

After the Virus: Advertising in the Age of BitTorrent and YouTube

If pornographers are inevitably the first to take advantage of any new medium, advertisers are often the last, perpetually in a race to discover how to capitalize on new modes of communication just as artists race to find ways to use them to show the human experience from new angles... (May 2007)

Bringing a Better Future Into Frame

In a world of infinite availability of information, context is king. The age-old truism that it’s not what you say but how you say it has never been truer than it is now. (May 2007)

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