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Futurist Friday: De-extinction. Conservation’s Fallback Plan?

By Elizabeth Merritt

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” –William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun If some scientists and visionaries have their way, Faulkner’s pronouncement may …
Futurist Friday: My Mind to Your Mind

By Elizabeth Merritt

While we are not ready for the Vulcan Mind Meld (yet), researchers are already making great leaps in brain-to-computer interfaces. Now scientists are beginning to play with brain-to-brain communications. Recent experiments include: fitting …
Futurist Friday: A Plug for Reading Science Fiction

By Elizabeth Merritt

Rather meta–today’s Futurist Friday is about why you should read (good) science fiction for a glimpse of realistic futures. This 8 minute video from PBS Digital Studios includes clips and quotes from many of the greats, notably …
Futurist Friday: Wandering

By Elizabeth Merritt

Much of the time futures work is about foreseeing, and avoiding, the worst possible outcomes. Rising seas lap at the toes of our communities (and sometimes our front steps), technology spawns ever more sophisticated ways to invade our …
Summer Reading: What’s on my iPad

By Elizabeth Merritt

I never have enough time for long-form reading, but every summer I queue up a few things and make time to dive into them. Preferably sitting on the porch. With lemonade. And cats. Here are the next four on my list—these summaries are based …
Futurist Friday: Building the City of the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Eugène Hénard, ‘The Cities of The Future’, published in American City, January 1911. I just downloaded a report that looks like a fascinating futurist read. “A Visual History of the Future” looks at how past …
Futurist Friday: Alt History & Alt Futures

By Elizabeth Merritt

Ever wonder how the present would be different, if some some key event in our past had torqued just enough to propel us into a different sector of the Cone of Plausibility? Exploring such scenarios is the realm of “alternative …
Recommendations

By Elizabeth Merritt

If you aren’t exploring Medium yet, you should. This blog publishing platform is turning into my go-to place for browsing and expanding my horizons. The recommendations by Medium itself seem rather random (no, guys, I really am not …
Futurist Friday: Cities of the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Just to switch things up a little, this week’s Futurist Friday assignment is a listen rather than a read.Jacob Morgan interviews Deb Acosta, the chief innovation officer for the city of San Leandro, CA, for his Future of Work …
Refreshing the Blog Roll

By Elizabeth Merritt

Guzel and I took some time this week to review and refresh the CFM Blog roll (see right-hand column). These blogs are some of my “go to” sources each week for news and thoughtful commentary. In addition to checking URLs, deleting a few …