The Future Is Ours – remarkable, necessary short film by Michael Marantz pays tribute to those pushing humanity forward and reminds us that the future is, indeed, in our hands.
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Truth from writer and futurist Alvin Toffler, creator of Future Shock.
Rockstar-statistician Hans Rosling has previously explained why the washing machine sparked the reading revolution and how 200 countries changed over 200 years. In this shortest TED talk ever given, Rosling uses a stack of stones to explain how global population growth will affect wealth distribution in the future and what will happen to the gap between the rich and the poor.
What ends up happening in the world, on a very, very large level, has a lot to do with what people believe will happen. Because these things are self-fulfilling — when enough people start to believe in a certain future outcome, their subconscious ends up acting on their behaviors, and that outcome ends up kind of happening. And so I think it’s so important to put forth beautiful, and also believable, visions of how things can be in the future, because then many people will believe in these things, and then those things will begin to come true.
And, conversely, this is why it’s so dangerous to do this kind of fear-mongering, cynical hopelessness you see every time you turn on the cable news or open up a newspaper — because if people are exposed to that enough, that’s what they will believe the future is going to be like, and they’ll start to act accordingly, and that’s what we’ll get.
Cowbird founder Jonathan Harris at the PSFK Conference.
After predicting the digital convergence in 1964 and the iPad in 1968, Arthur C. Clarke predicts the Internet, networked society, and personal computers in 1974.
“The book reader of the future,” envisioned in a 1935 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics – a delightful addition to these vintage visions for the future of technology.
Where to find a creative class job in 2020 – a map of projected growth.
In the 1930s, as synchronized recorded sound began to replace live musicians who played in movie theaters to score films, the American Federation of Musicians formed a new organization called the Music Defense League and launched an ad campaign against the “menace” of recorded sound — an approach not too far from contemporary techno-paranoia about how the Internet is destroying society, and proof that innovation and anxiety seem to go hand-in-hand.
