(This is written for Russell Davies’ Lyddle End 2050 project. The photos are all of models I made for it, and you can also see them as a set on Flickr).

We’ve lived through a lot of futures and most of them, we didn’t see coming. We’ve imagined many more, and I have a lot of [...]

It’s an odd climate in which to coin such a post title, but a few things I’ve observed have been rattling around recently.
The ongoing economic crisis seems to drive people to more conservative tactics, which aren’t necessarily safe (i.e. retreating to currency in the name of liquidity doesn’t seem like a very sure bet…). The [...]

While 3D printing will remain the territory of geeks and tinkerers for quite a while to come, an impressive step was achieved with the RepRap last week: It can now print its own components. Not quite full self replication, in the sense of a second, fully assembled printer appearing end on out of a first, [...]

After the jump there’s a written version of the keynote talk I gave at Under The Mask, Perspectives on the Gamer on Saturday the 7th of June. You can find slides to go with it here, an embedded version with image credits here, links to most of the things I’m talking about here, the conference [...]

Here are the slides for the Game Culture Talk I did last Saturday at Under The Mask:

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These are also mirrored with transcript on the Pixel-Lab site.
If the embed doesn’t work for you, here’s a link to the slide page.
Photo credits after the jump. Most images were used under creative [...]

I’ve been reading Jon Taplin recently. He and John Robb seem to be a slightly eerie source of pragmatism on current economic problems. Jon:
At the beginning of last week, Bear Stearns had $18 billion in cash. Today it has no cash, but lots of unsellable bonds.
and
We were astonished last week that Carlyle Capital was [...]