Eight years ago I put together a list of the Top 10 Futurist Websites, a post that continues to be the most popular on the site. Now that it’s 2020 and the future is officially here, the time has come to update the list and see if anything has changed. Interestingly, all of the sites… Continue Reading
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World War Privacy (Part IV: China)
We all need to be talking about China. Long-known as the world’s censoring superpower, the degree to which China has embraced modern surveillance technology and invaded the privacy of its citizens (and dissenters) is a glimpse into what a dystopian surveillance society looks like. Part IV of the World War Privacy series, this article looks… Continue Reading
The Future is Now: Utopian Technology of 2020
Remember when 2020 represented what the future could be? The original Bladerunner movie was set at the end of 2019 and depicted holographic advertisements, flying cars, bubble hair-dryers and AI-replicants so advanced that they were indistinguishable from humanity. Soylent Green presumed that by 2022 overpopulation, pollution and climate change would be so devastating that we… Continue Reading
Revolver (When Winter Calls ONS – Track VI)
I’ve found some time in an increasingly busy life to put together another track for the Original Novel Soundtrack tied into my novel When Winter Calls. This track continues my explorations into hardware production and particularly the eurorack modular format, whilst adding on the sampling capacity of an Elektron Digitakt and the editing capacity of… Continue Reading
It’s Philip K. Dick’s World: Interview with Daniel Abella, Founder of the PKD Sci-Fi Film Festival
Header Image: Tears in the Rain still, Directed by Christopher Grant Harvey. Blade Runner 2049 has arrived, allowing us to once again delve into the mind of Philip K. Dick and the echoes that he left behind in popular culture. During these troubled and duplicitous times, the inherent understanding in his work that reality is… Continue Reading
Novek: An Interview with the Sci-Fi Indie Firman Brothers
I’m always on the lookout for interesting projects that relate to deep-seated issues of the human condition and the future of society and, as anybody who has read my recent novel When Winter Calls will know, I also enjoy interesting dystopian fiction that takes us away from the usual post-apocalyptic visions and into more unique… Continue Reading