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Sep 23, 2016
Watch the first teasers for the new Ghost in the Shell movie
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, futurism
As you’ve probably heard, there’s a live-action version of the classic manga The Ghost in the Shell with Scarlett Johansson coming next year, and now the first teasers have arrived.
The spots, which initially aired during tonight’s Mr. Robot season finale, are glitchy and weird; impressionistic moments rather than traditional teasers. (As somebody that grew up on ‘90s visions of our inevitable cyberpunk future, it’s an aesthetic I happen to personally enjoy. The only shame is that Ralph Fiennes isn’t around to sling some black market MiniDisc memories.)
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Sep 23, 2016
Uber drivers in China are pretending to be zombies to scam cancellation fee
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
Sep 23, 2016
Tesla e-Bike Could Be the Future Motorcycle You Never Thought You Wanted
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: futurism, transportation
What better way for Tesla to outdo itself than by dominating the motorcycle market as well!? — B.J. Murphy for Serious Wonder.
Sep 22, 2016
Interview: Education Minister Hekia Parata on Preparing New Zealand’s Future Generations to Take on the World — By Michelle FlorCruz | Asia Society Asia Blog
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: education, futurism
“Asia Blog spoke to Parata ahead of the launch of the Center for Global Education at Asia Society to discuss the importance of globally-minded future generations.”
Tag: Asia
Sep 21, 2016
How ‘superforecasters’ think about the future — Faye Flam
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
SEPTEMBER 15 — When it comes to making forecasts — whether it’s predicting the outcome of an election or determining whether a marriage will last — what good is intuition? Can our gut instincts guide us to correct outcomes, or are they too unreliable to be useful in a world ruled by data?
People can use intuition to make remarkably accurate predictions, social scientists have shown. In an experiment published earlier this year, for example, psychologists found that call-centre employees speaking with registered voters a week before an election could foresee with surprising accuracy which ones would flake out on their plans to vote. “It’s surprising to me because it’s such a short exchange for callers to be able to make useful inferences about whether respondents are actually going to do what they say,” the lead researcher, Todd Rogers, told me when the study was published. He cited other studies where ordinary people showed extraordinary abilities to intuit others’ personality traits, sexual orientation and racial attitudes.
At the same time, unconscious judgments can be contaminated with biases. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman laid out many of the perils of gut instinct in his 2011 best-seller “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” Among them are anchoring (being overly influenced by the first information you receive), hindsight bias (wrongly believing past events were predictable or predetermined), and the availability heuristic (giving too much weight to what you already know and not enough to what you know you need to look up).
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Sep 21, 2016
Extreme Futures and Technology Forecasting Conference — Fall 2016
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: futurism, transhumanism
The EFTF Conferences first event in San Francisco. Lots of Lightning Rounds by industry luminaries, and local technologists on the future of technology. Profits from the conference will be donated to a Non-Profit focused using technology to help humanity through the use of new and emerging technology. This conference is about the future of technology, networking and how we can help each other with a holistic approach. Come join the conversation and the futurist trends and technology. There will be an after party but the location is still TBD (tickets for the party are seperate then general admission).
This time we have an exciting device bar and personal technology bar from watchs to cybernetic implants or just to plug in your personal hardware.
Sep 21, 2016
Allo is a messaging app that makes conversations easier, more productive, and more expressive
Posted by Elmar Arunov in category: futurism
Sep 21, 2016
The Secret Lab Where Nike Invented the Power-Lacing Shoe of Our Dreams
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: futurism
Nike’s Tinker Hatfield and Mark Parker created the original power-lacing sneakers for BTTF. Now go inside the lab where Nike just invented them for real.