MetaFilter posts tagged with wired and future

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zarq — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:28:18 -0800

For WIRED magazine's 20th anniversary, they've "gathered stories for, by, and about the people who have shaped the planet's past 20 years—and will continue driving the next."

"If you’re not getting it wrong really a lot when you’re creating imaginary futures, then you’re just not doing it enough."

Artw — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:02:27 -0800

Wired talks to William Gibson: on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong, on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions, and and on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and ‘Gangnam Style’.

Futurama

gman — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:06:11 -0800

The New York World’s Fair of 1939 and 1940 promised visitors they would be looking at the “World of Tomorrow”. (second link is similar to the second one here)

Music Is the Weapon of the Future.

Lutoslawski — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:35:58 -0800

Acoustic Levitation. (wiki) In related news: Sound Kills Humans.

Deep Space Pharma

BLDGBLOG — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:38:29 -0800

Growing drugs in space. If the rainforest runs out of undiscovered medicines, just grow new drugs in space: Wired reports that "a swaggering Texas investor" wants to turn the International Space Station into a kind of orbiting drug lab: "If people knew what I already know," he says, "the International Space Station would be considered one of the most valuable resources our world possesses." Think of it as New Jack City in zero-G – full of weird, crystallized proteins (and billion dollar cures).

endquote — Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:57:59 -0800

Anyone else remember Wired's theory of The Long Boom from 1997? I guess they were wrong.

Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

Sean Meade — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 07:43:49 -0800

Why the Future Doesn't Need Us is the cover story in this month's 'Wired'. It was written by Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun. In it he makes a very convincing case for strict regulation of genetics, nanotech, and robotics, given that any of these could cause the extinction of the human species in the next 30 years. What do you think?