1. You’re invited to predict the next 100 years

    Up to the challenge?

    Brian Suda and I (and many others!) seem to continually discuss what may be.

    We’re geeks, obviously, but as Chris Messina quoted while at Reboot, “Alpha-geeks are becoming alpha-citizens.“, and thus we discuss all manner of subjects:

    • technology
    • sociology
    • ecology
    • business
    • ethics
    • psychology

    The list goes on. But all these conversations eventually evaluate the past, and then try to work out how things may change. Sometimes for the worse, but hopefully for the better!

    Finding inspiration from an article written 100 years ago in The Ladies Home Journal, predicting the year 2000, we decided to try and do what they did and predict the future, 1 year from now, then 10, and then 100 years to the year 2100!

    You’re now invited to join us in these predictions, firstly online, and then at a short meet up just before the dConstruct conference in Brighton. When we meet, we’ll also discuss the predictions submitted online.

    So go submit your predictions, and then join us on the day!

    http://predictions.sudabot.com/ < -- This is the important bit!

    We’ll meet on September the 4th in Brighton at 5.30pm (upcoming), location TBD.

    P.s. don’t feel any pressure to be 100% accurate, this is supposed to be fun too :)


  2. Harold Pinter

    I’m watching Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, that he reads on film being too ill to travel to Sweden.

    He’s painting a horrific picture of war.

    He tells a story of a child of 4 years old asking “when do i get my arms back?”, having lost them along with his family to the Americans.

    Some phrases stuck in my head:

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