(yet another) flying car

Damn thing just won’t go away…
This one is “practical”, though. I see. You can fly it on a light sport aircraft licence, apparently. Inevitably, it will be commercially available in “late 2011″. Orders taken now. I don’t care: I’m still tagging this as futures past.
Oh, and built by MIT students. Easy to forget they have [...]

how fiction shapes innovation

and vice-versa…
just a call for ideas, really. I’m talking next week to a group of budding architects and designers in Italy about Innovation and visions of our future (thanks to Massimiano Bucchi for the invitation)
The idea is to get them thinking about how fictional images can influence future design ambitions and help shape new technologies, [...]

Future Savvy

The title is by way of a small plug for the book of the same name by Adam Gordon, out last year but with a 2009 copyright line (future-oriented even there).
It’s a nice, user-friendly guide to forecasting, and especially to reading other people’s. The business-person-in-a-hurry style pull quotes on each page are sometimes, er, chosen [...]

The future: Where you and I will spend the rest of our lives.

media futures cartoon -
“it’s funny because it’s true” (Homer Simpson)
and blogging it makes it true, I suppose, ahem