Future Journeys Archives: March 2007
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6 March 2007
Life Like Robots
Candy Sidner, a competing roboticist has an Albert Einstein Robot which is very realistic and lifelike. Their skin is textured and realistic and this poses a threat to polarizing the market. Hanson, the artist who used to work for Disney says that he flirts with being too realistic, but this has the possibility of reducing [...]
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6 March 2007
Gen X and Y's Media Multi- Tasking
Anyone who has anything to do with young people know that the way that they are consuming and viewing media is changing massively and in a recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation has examined trends in media multi tasking in young Americans.
The reports focuses on increases in multiple media time (26% of media [...]
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6 March 2007
Virtual Terrorist Bombing
Sick of the increasing commercialization of the cult virtual world, Second Life a group of virtual terrorists have bombed a virtual American Apparel outlet and Reebok store. The so-called ‘Second Life Liberation Army’ is a group of users were calling for democratic decision making in their virtual community. The SLLA believe that, “The population of [...]
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2 March 2007
Melbourne Futures Dreaming Weekend March 31 – April 1
Set amongst the beautiful Albert Park this weekend is a time to get away from normal life, relax and think about the future. Everyone feels uncertain about the future we are creating and by using these processes we feel less anxious about the future and find steps and tools we can use to create the [...]