http://www.metafilter.com/tags/future+scifi Posts tagged with 'future' and 'scifi' at MetaFilter. Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:43:52 -0800 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:43:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74807/Too%2Dbad%2Dthe%2Dguy%2Dwas%2Donly%2Dthirty%2Deight%2Djust%2Dtwo%2Dyears%2Dolder%2Dhed%2Dhave%2Dbeen%2Dworth%2Dthree%2Dtimes%2Dthe%2Dpoints Did you grow up anticipating sports where death would be likely, if not certain? Almost certainly played by convicts, possibly with robot limbs? And which would be even more likely to have chainsaws and flamethrowers not usually found in the sports of today? <a href="http://www.thoseweleftbehind.co.uk/">Those We Left Behind’s</a> look at Future-sports of the past, in <a href="http://www.thoseweleftbehind.co.uk/2008/05/futuresport-of-past-part-i-speedball-2.html ">videogames</a>, <a href="http://www.thoseweleftbehind.co.uk/2008/05/future-sports-of-past-part-ii-death.html">movies</a> and <a href="http://www.thoseweleftbehind.co.uk/2008/05/futuresport-of-past-part-iii-2000ad.html">comics</a> is for you! tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74807 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:43:52 -0800 2000AD chainsaw Comics DeathRace2000 Films flamethrower Future FutureSports games motorcycles Movies Nostalgia Rollerball ScienceFiction SciFi SF Speedball Sport Sports Videogames Artw http://www.metafilter.com/74124/Bricks%2Dfrom%2Dashes <a href="http://www.iftf.org/node/2098">Superstruct:</a> An alternate reality game of future survival from the woman who brought you I Love Bees. Starting soon. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74124 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:55:30 -0800 2019 alternatereality alternaterealitygame ARG forecast free future futurecast game instituteofthefuture JaneMcGonigal McGonigal narrative prediction scifi sci-fi speculative text-based klangklangston http://www.metafilter.com/51452/maybe%2Dnew%2Dideas%2Dwill%2Dcome <a href="http://interconnected.org/notes/2006/02/scifi/" title="'This presentation isn’t about telling. Just read and look at the pictures, and maybe new ideas will come. That’s all it’s about.'">A talk given by Matt Webb on fictional futures</a>, and a whole lot besides. Just some text and some pictures, but he takes you on a most excellent brain adventure, from <a href="http://www.themodernword.com/calvino/" title="There were nights when the Moon was full and very, very low, and the tide was so high that the Moon missed a ducking in the sea by a hair’s-breadth; well, let’s say a few yards anyway. Climb up on the Moon? Of course we did. All you had to do was row out to it in a boat and, when you were underneath, prop a ladder against her and scramble up.">Italo Calvino</a> to <a href="http://www.expasy.org/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl" title="'I have no idea what it means, like how to read it. Some people memorise parts of it; I just love looking at it.'">a map of all the biochemical reactions on Earth</a> to <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush" title="'The revolution in the Memex was the idea of the 'trail.' You could select any piece of text you want, and join it to any other piece. Thus you could make trails of ideas that you could share with people. That was the big step: He thought about the links between books instead of the books themselves.' (er, I mean, lol bush is teh dum am i rite?)">Vannevar Bush’s machine, the Memex</a> with dozens of stops in between. One of my favorite parts -- and the coolest use of RSS I've ever seen -- is a tool to subscribe to your <a href="http://interconnected.org/home/more/lightcone/" title="'It gives you a constantly updating list of all the stars that have been enveloped by your own personal lightcone. That is, when you were born, that was reflected in light which left the Earth. News of your birth is travelling away from the Earth, and at any given moment we can see which stars the news is passing.'">personal lightcone</a>. [<a href="http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/05/links_for_20060507.shtml">via</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51452 Sun, 07 May 2006 23:37:45 -0800 fiction future ideas lectures lightcone networks rss science scifi stavrosthewonderchicken http://www.metafilter.com/38207/Babes%2Din%2DSpace <a href="http://a23.com/babesinspace/contents.html">Babes in Space.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.38207 Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:09:55 -0800 art coverart future illustration pulp sciencefiction scifi space women greasy_skillet http://www.metafilter.com/33801/Wheres%2Dmy%2Dflying%2Dcar%2DI%2Dwant%2Dmy%2Dflying%2Dcar It's Official - the future sucks. Why has the future been such a let down? It's more 1984 than Barbarella. If we can have ID cards and video surveillance, then why can't we have intergalactic flying cars and hot chicks in skimpy plastic outfits? Clearly I'm not the only one wondering where all the cool stuff went - check out <em><a href="http://www.retrofuture.com/">RetroFuture</a></em> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.33801 Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:25:44 -0800 future scifi dodgygeezer