looks like a pretty cool futures project, good to have this as background knowledge. "Societies are developing and investing in technological and scientific innovations that have ever longer-term consequences for human and non-human life. Current future-producing practices include biotechnologies, nanotechnologies, and nuclear technologies. Such developments unleash futures that we cannot predict, and set in motion processes that will affect untold generations to come. "

describe current use of oil as using 22 billion free slaves - echoes thomas homer dixon's metaphor

looks like an example of emerging public science and science communication - attempting to do science in a way that influences the public

latest thiing i've learned about from Darren. need to go through and actually have a play!

this looks really cool, thanks Joe Voros!

gets people involved in a variety of creative challenges - a way of crowdsourcing behavioural change

this is connected to panoptic and cyber civ