Building Visions of Humanity’s Climate Future – in Fiction and on Campus
Unhooked: Wonder in the Digital Age
Our neocortex is very adept at automation – at habitualizing complex behaviors and routines of thought. Consider: how much of your day is patterned? How much of your thoughts are processes you’ve repeated before? A lot! And this is a good thing: automation frees up our minds for the good life, the life examined, the life of the mind.
Unhooked: Wonder in the Digital Age
Corey S. Pressman
New ASU Futurist-In-Residence On The Future, Imagination
Intel futurist Brian David Johnson heads to ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination
Futurist Brian David Johnson leaves Intel, joins Arizona State University
Renowned futurist, technologist, and author Brian David Johnson, who left his position at the Intel Corporation in January, will be joining Arizona State University as Futurist in Residence for spring 2016 at the Center for Science and the Imagination and as a Professor of Practice in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society.
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Casts Diverse Actors
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Evokes Passion From Nontraditional Fans
What Algorithms Want
We spend an awful lot of time now thinking about what algorithms know about us: the ads we see online, the deep archive of our search history, the automated photo-tagging of our families. We don’t spend as much time asking what algorithms want.
We Can Build the Future
By Ed Finn, Computer, IEEE Computer Society 48
Clockwork Conversation: Not Everything Could Be Half of Something
In 1562, Don Carlos, the seventeen-year-old heir apparent to the Spanish throne, falls down a flight of stairs. Tragically, he sustains a terrible head wound. His father, King Philip II,
Clockwork Conversation: Not Everything Could Be Half of Something
Corey S. Pressman
‘Star Wars,’ ‘The Martian’ Show Science Fiction’s Role In Pop Culture
From Science Fiction to Science Fact
Fluxing Futures: A Practitioner’s Guide to Probable Near-Term Developments in Publicity Rights Law
By Michael G. Bennett and Libbie Richards, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Using digital storytelling to grapple with scientific progress
Researchers at Arizona State University have received a four-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to use the interactive, engaging nature of digital narratives to invite deeper conversations about questions of scientific creativity and responsibility.
Researchers Reanimate Frankenstein to Bring Science to Life
Science fiction anthology explores futures shaped by journeys through time and space
Just in time for the United Nations’ World Space Week (October 4-10, 2015) comes Journeys through Time and Space, a new anthology of creative, thought-provoking visions of the future shaped by excursions through space and time, and into the labyrinthine caverns of the human mind.