Entries tagged with: Asteroid Impact
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Long-Run vs. Long-Lag
All distant problems are not created equally. By definition, distant (long-term) problems are those that show their real impact at some point in the not-near future; arbitrarily, we can say five or more years, but many of them won't have...
Monday Topsight, June 30, 2008
• Flooded London: Media designers Squint/Opera have come up with a project they call "Flooded London: 2090," a set of illustrations of London in a late global warming world. As a piece of anticipatory illustration, it's startlingly idyllic -- pictures...
Monday Topsight, December 10, 2007
Let's see what's bubbled up through the Intertubes recently... • Oh, No: In their never-ending quest to make ordinary citizens rise up and destroy capitalism, the advertising community has discovered a new place to put hard-to-ignore ads: in your skull....
Tuesday Topsight, August 15, 2006
Today's Topsight Tuesday is all about things that worry and frighten us: massive asteroid impacts, terrorism, and Powerpoint. • Boom: This video at YouTube apparently comes from a Japanese program on global disasters. It shows what would happen if we...
What's the Opposite of Triage?
I've been thinking quite a bit lately about how we make long-term decisions. The trite reply of "poorly" is perhaps correct, but only underscores the necessity of coming up with reliable (or, at least, trustable) mechanisms for thinking about the...
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