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New Fast Company: World Water Day

My latest Fast Company piece went up last night, in commemoration of World Water Day 2010. This was the perfect opportunity to talk a bit about my time at the LAUNCH inaugural event, which focused on -- surprise -- water....

New Fast Company: Augmented (Fashion) Reality

My latest Fast Company piece is up: Augmented (Fashion) Reality takes a look at what happens when the world of fashion gets ahold of AR technology. It starts out with a scenario. Here's a bit of it: I remember the...

Futures Thinking: Mapping the Possibilities, and Writing Scenarios

(tap tap... this thing on? There's dust and cobwebs all over the place.) My most recent three Fast Company pieces are all of a set, part of the Futures Thinking series. Mapping the Possibilities (Part One, Part Two) give some...

New Fast Company: iWorry

(Well, "new" in the sense of it's the most recent; it actually went up earlier this week, I just didn't get around to linking to it here. Ahem.) "iWorry" is my foray into the iPad discussion, focusing less on the...

New Fast Company: Vampire Loads, White Roofs, and the Quest for Efficiency

Latest Fast Company is now up: Vampire Loads, White Roofs, and the Quest for Efficiency gives a shout-out to the newly-retired head of the California Energy Commission, Art Rosenfeld, and the benefits his policies have provided to California and, as...

New Fast Company: Innovation as Resource

I'm back to blogging at Fast Company, and my latest piece is now up: Innovation as Resource and China's New Magnetism. The U.K.'s Independent reports that China has been gradually cutting the amount of rare-earth elements it exports, now down...

New Fast Company: Futures Thinking: Scanning the World

...And just now my latest Fast Company piece popped up on the site. "Futures Thinking: Scanning the World" is the third in the occasional series on thinking like a futurist. In my opinion, it may actually be the hardest step...

New Fast Company: The Meowtrix

My new Fast Company essay is now up, looking at the news that IBM researchers have produced a cortical computing system with the connection complexity of a cat's brain. (My original title is shown here on the illustration; the...

New Fast Company: Multifractals in the Sky, With Power-Laws

My latest Fast Company essay is now up. "Is the Atmosphere Simpler Than We Thought?" takes a look at some recent research claiming that the atmosphere demonstrates a multifractal power-law structure. McGill University physicist Shaun Lovejoy kept coming back to...

New Fast Company: 350

My latest Fast Company piece is up. 350 takes a look at the global movement to limit CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million. If this sounds like I think the 350 movement is a bad idea......

New FC: Futures Thinking: Asking the Question

My latest Fast Company essay is up, and with it I return to the "Futures Thinking" series. This one, "Asking the Question," looks at how to craft a question for a foresight exercise that's most likely to generate useful results....

New FC: Singularity Scenarios

My latest Fast Company essay goes up today, talking about the different scenarios for a "Singularity" that arise when you take into account different cultural and political drivers for both before and after the development of greater-than-human intelligence. Three...

New FC: The Singularity and Society

My Fast Company essay this week is a long one, offering up an overview of the Singularity concept for people who haven't following it closely -- as well as some thoughts about what might be missing. Despite the presence of...

New FC: Futures Thinking - the Basics

This week's Fast Company is now up. Futures Thinking: The Basics is an introduction to foresight and futurism, with the goal of making it something that many people can engage in productively. Long-time futures practitioners may find the method described...

....and another FC: APIs Are Not A Substitute for Ethics

Building on a Twitter post from the other day, my latest Fast Company essay looks at what happens when we try to limit misbehavior through tools, not rules. The best kind of rules are those we apply to ourselves, those...

New Fast Company: Awareness is Everything

I'm a bit late in noting this, but last week's Fast Company article is indeed available. "Awareness is Everything" looks at what happens as we keep adding sensory awareness to our personal devices. Imagine a desktop with a camera that...

New Fast Company: 3 New Economies, Part II

The second part of my "Three Possible Economic Models" post is now up, with extended scenarios for Resilience Economics, Just-in-Time Socialism, and Robonomics. Resilience Economics (RE) emerged out of the realization that Neoliberal Globalized Corporate Capitalism made money hand-over-fist when...

New Fast Company: 3 New Economies

My new Fast Company essay is up: Three Possible Economic Models talks a bit about what 21st century economics might look like, given certain disruptive drivers. Yes, Resilience Economics is there, but so is "Just-in-Time Socialism" and "Robonomics." Speaking as...

New Fast Company: Rust Never Sleeps

Ug99 is a scary fungus that could DESTROY THE WORLD... well, actually, could devastate global wheat crops, which is a pretty fair approximation if you dislike famine. It started in Uganda in 1999 (hence Ug 99), but is now being...

New Fast Company: New Rules for the Photoshop Era

My new Fast Company essay, "Five New Rules for the Photoshop Era," takes on the participatory decepticon, and discovers that it was apparently born in Kenya. If you're annoyed by the "birther" churn, get used it--this kind of political...

New Fast Company: Autonomy Sans

My latest Fast Company essay is up: Autonomy without Intelligence asks what "high-frequency trading" says about the future of military robots. But that situation--humans on one side, humans + computer/robot systems on the other--won't last. And when both sides of...

New Fast Company: Kindle and Orwell and Clouds

Oh my. New Fast Company essay is now up: Head in the Clouds looks at cloud computing in light of Amazon's nuking of purchased Kindle copies of 1984 and Animal Farm. Now, the Kindle is not a cloud computing system,...

New FC: Material Issues

My new column for Fast Company is now up. The Desktop Manufacturing Revolution looks at the possible impact of 3D printing, which seems to be on the verge of the same breakthrough we saw 25 years ago with desktop publishing....

New FC: #cleanse

My new Fast Company article went live this morning, "The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution." It looks at some of the less-savory implications of the heroic use of Twitter in Iran. Consider, for a moment, what we're seeing happening...

New Fast Company Column: iPhone Augmented Reality

Because it's actually a blogging requirement to write something about new Apple hardware when it's announced. One of the more important features of the new iPhone may be the least-widely heralded by the tech punditry: it has a compass. This...

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