cosmic weltschmerz Bruce Sterling on the next 50 years of climate-wracked maker architecture Cory Doctorow

speculative design Design fiction, speculative design, and "creepiness" Cory Doctorow

Ames New hi-res scans of NASA's 1970s dreams of space colonies Andrea James

Santa Fe Santa Fe: Come see Neal Stephenson, NASA's Pete Worden, Los Alamos's Nina Lanza, JPL's Sasha Samochina (and me!) at the Interplanetary Festival! Cory Doctorow

aesthetic Artists pay tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey at the half-century mark Andrea James

adjacent possibilities Science fiction, predicting the present, the adjacent possible, and trumpian comic dystopias Cory Doctorow

pessimism optimism hope and despair The Polak Game: an exercise to help reveal your theories of the future Cory Doctorow

34c3 Charlie Stross's CCC talk: the future of psychotic AIs can be read in today's sociopathic corporations Cory Doctorow

optimism Erik Davis's Expanding Mind podcast: the Voyager Record, Institute for the Future, and optimism David Pescovitz

cities Exhibit of the futuristic New York City that never was David Pescovitz

predictions Here's a great rundown of major moments to come between now and 2050 Andrea James

collective unconsciousness William Gibson: what we talk about, when we talk about dystopia Cory Doctorow

something to be enthusiastic about Bruce Sterling: science fiction won't make the future better Cory Doctorow

soviets A great look back at Soviet futurism Andrea James

authors Animated interviews with "futurists" Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut, and Aldous Huxley David Pescovitz

modern prometheus Mary Shelley's Frankenstein shows us how science fiction predicts the present and shapes the future Cory Doctorow

futures New podcast about the future from Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz David Pescovitz

turin Bruce Sterling's SXSW 2017 keynote: what should humans do? Cory Doctorow

today's printing press A futurist looks to the past to understand the present "Gutenberg Moment" David Pescovitz

noir Illustrations depict future noir in brooding shapes and shadows Andrea James