Services 2020

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. "

Found this whilst trying to set-up pipes for crowd sourcing / morphology blog......

are you trying to make me feel at home?

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

Do you want to write the book...

Imagine a 3-d printer so large that it can spit out entire buildings made from stone. Sounds science fiction-y, right? But that's exactly what designer Enrico Dini created with his prototype D-Shape printer. Dini hopes to use the printer to create buildin

wow, looks totally insane.

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

An open market for services - price fixed at $5.

this looks really cool, thanks Joe Voros!

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

An open market for services - price fixed at $5.

Interesting blog recommended by John Robb