3 posts tagged with Ecology by MetaMonkey.
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Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years (Feb, 1950)
Some more up-to-date predictions: science,
invention, space travel,
colonisation,
immortality, water
shortage, flooding, nanotech, techno-apocalypse,
extinction, mental health, smart machines, robots, mind uploading, AI,
Asia,
economics, demographics, goverance, cities.
What is your prediction?
posted by MetaMonkey
on Oct 5, 2006 -
54 comments
Altered Oceans: A Primeval Tide of Toxins The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour. When fishermen touched it, their skin broke out in searing welts. Their lips blistered and peeled. Their eyes burned and swelled shut. Water that splashed from their nets spread the inflammation to their legs and torsos.
posted by MetaMonkey
on Aug 1, 2006 -
32 comments
Designing the Next
Industrial Revolution [google video], an inspiring talk by William McDonough on design and ecology, beyond sustainability. Starts a little slow, but builds a powerful vision of a possible future. [transcript, via, see also]
posted by MetaMonkey
on Jul 26, 2006 -
5 comments
