Monthly Archives: February 2014

Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism?

Posted: February 26, 2014 at 4:40 pm

57074803 story Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @05:10AM from the i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream dept. Ellen Spertus writes "I'll be teaching an interdisciplinary college course on how technology is changing the world and how students can influence that change. In addition to teaching the students how to create apps, I'd like for us to read and discuss short stories and essays about how the future (next 40 years) might play out. For example, we'll read excerpts from David Brin's Transparent Society and Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near. I'm also considering excerpts of Cory Doctorow's Homeland and Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. What other suggestions do Slashdotters have?" You may like to read: Post

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Rise of BDSM – Video

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Rise of BDSM
Republicof Sandles talks about the potential problems of BDSM. What #39;s your take on the subject? Like us on FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/SexFuturist A...

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How To Prevent Ageing – Stay Young Forever – Future Pharma Health Care Futurist Speaker – Video

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How To Prevent Ageing - Stay Young Forever - Future Pharma Health Care Futurist Speaker
Keynote by Patrick Dixon on medical technology and ageing. Mitochondria are inefficient, making them more efficient reduces the ageing process. In the future...

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Why Cities have a Great Future: Futurist speaker – keynote on real estate industry trends – Video

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Why Cities have a Great Future: Futurist speaker - keynote on real estate industry trends
Future of cities, real estate trends and the future of London. Why Cities are growing around the world. Urbanisation / urbanization and migration to cities i...

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Challenger Learning Center Space Station – Video

Posted: February 25, 2014 at 8:46 pm


Challenger Learning Center Space Station

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Astronaut Mike Hopkins: Workout in Space 2 – Video

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Astronaut Mike Hopkins: Workout in Space 2
Astronaut Mike Hopkins, a lifelong athlete, worked closely with his strength and conditioning coach Mark Guilliams to develop these specially-designed workou...

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Soyuz Simulator – Video

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Soyuz Simulator
Learning to fly the Soyuz with ESA astronauts Andreas Mogensen and Thomas Pesquet in the Soyuz simulator at Star City, near Moscow. Latest installment from A...

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[ENG] KSP Space Station – Ep 7: Emergency Vessels & Cosmonauts – Video

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[ENG] KSP Space Station - Ep 7: Emergency Vessels Cosmonauts
In this episode: We #39;re sending the emergency vessels to our space station so if we have any emergency, our cosmonauts can actually escape form the space stat...

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Elysium 2013 – Video

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Elysium 2013
http://bit.ly/1fmbimP Watch Elysium 2013 1080p BluRay Online http://bit.ly/1fmbimP In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a manmade space station while t...

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Why Are Astronauts Weightless? – Video

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Why Are Astronauts Weightless?
I have been working with Catalyst on ABC1 to bring some Veritasium to Australian TV. In this segment I ask wh. A simple explanation to why astronauts feel we...

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