Entries tagged with: Eschatology

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The End of the World As We Know It (and I'm rather annoyed)

Fast Company's Co.Exist just put up my latest piece for them: "The End Of The World Isn’t As Likely As Humans Fighting Back." It's the latest in my series of short essays under the working title "Stop Complaining About the...

Posted on May 28, 2013 12:39 PM

Where's Waldo? (and by "Waldo" I mean me)

This has already been a busy year, and it's just getting more hectic. Over the past couple of weeks, I've talked bioterrorism near DC and sustainability in the snows of Minneapolis. I'm now immersed in the Institute for the Future's...

Posted on March 19, 2013 10:45 AM

Ready or Not (Doomsday talk in San Francisco, June 2012)

Jamais Cascio @ "BAASICS.2:The Future" from Selene Foster on Vimeo. This past June, I spoke at an event in San Francisco for a group called "BAASICS" (Bay Area Art & Science Interactive Collaborative Sessions). My talk -- on the...

Posted on January 3, 2013 10:54 AM

Not Giving Up

About ten years ago, I found myself sitting on the floor of my San Francisco Bay Area apartment, hoping that the call I was on wasn’t going to drop yet again. At the other end of the line was a...

Posted on June 28, 2011 1:17 PM

Real Eschatological Taxonomy Poster

Peer-pressured into it, but it was quite fun to play with: Available at Cafe Press. The text reads: Being a scale for comparing, contrasting, and understanding the sundry manners in which the Apocalypse may arise, as structured by Jamais Cascio....

Posted on November 29, 2010 11:54 AM

More Quick Links

Tired & busy with Superstruct. But check these out: • We're Doomed! DOOOOOMED! Hey, want to see six seven (see comments) middle-aged white guys talk about the end of the world? You're in luck! GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building A Resilient...

Posted on October 8, 2008 4:48 PM

Epic

(Getty | Chip Somodevilla) | (lifted from Atrios) Pushed with little time to examine or debate, with explicit demands for no transparency and no oversight, and at a scale that undermines (frankly, destroys) our flexibility to deal with emerging...

Posted on September 23, 2008 4:11 PM

A Few Quick LInks

Nothing of any particular depth, but all worth a glance: • You Can't Destroy the Earth. Really. Not even with a Death Star. • Prediction Markets as Futurism? Eh, not so much. • Petabyte-scale Climate Modeling. GEAS, here we come....

Posted on September 18, 2008 1:53 PM

Singular Sensations

The Singularity concept remains inescapable these days, although rarely well-understood. Both are unfortunate developments, for essentially the same reason: the popularity of the term "Singularity" has undermined its narrative value. Its use in a discussion is almost guaranteed to become...

Posted on July 3, 2008 6:51 PM

What the Heck?

Taking a quick scan through my logs, I noticed something odd. Like many blogs, much of my traffic comes from people searching for particular terms. Normally, the searches that lead OtF are for topics I've written about (geoengineering, metaverse, etc.)...

Posted on December 27, 2007 3:14 PM

Tuesday Topsight, December 18, 2007

Hey there, folks out there in Internet-land -- do you find these "topsight" posts useful or interesting? I sometimes puzzle over whether the various individual entries would be better off as individual short posts, rather than as a catch-all post....

Posted on December 18, 2007 3:30 PM

Eschatological Taxonomy -- Now Suitable for Framing

(click for larger version, of course)...

Posted on January 23, 2007 12:12 PM

An Eschatological Taxonomy

Eschatology: (noun) The study of the end of the world.Taxonomy: (noun) A classification in a hierarchical system. What do we mean when we talk about the "end of the world?" It's a term that get thrown around a bit too...

Posted on December 31, 2006 4:01 PM

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