I hope to get the opportunity to do a little of this myself.

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

as documented by Technovelgy 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-americas-leading-science-fiction-authors-are-shaping-your-future-180951169/?no-ist

Stuck for inspiration in your fantasy? What about a geologically, politically, and linguistically realistic random map to get you going?

Originally shared by Shaun Duke

Fantasy Shaun:

This is so cool!

http://flip.it/1TXJ_M

A collection of “philosophically interesting” SF recommendations from 48 philosophers, with pitches about why they are interesting.

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/PhilosophicalSF.htm

Originally shared by Arduino

MIT’s Open Style Lab is developing adaptive wear for those with disabilities.

(via Fast Company)

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3062726/the-mit-lab-thats-quietly-pioneering-fashion-for-everyone/1

Via Larry Panozzo.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

The dream of nanomachines traveling your body and repairing it on the cellular level is a little closer thanks to the development of nanoengines and nanorockets. http://bit.ly/2b46cDE

http://bit.ly/2b46cDE

Originally shared by ExtremeTech

More bad news for VW owners — this time, 100 million of ’em.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/233468-bugs-in-the-bug-100-million-cars-especially-vw-may-be-at-risk-from-unlock-hacks

“What could go wrong?” is often a good starting point for a story. It’s also something designers need to be good at asking themselves.

Originally shared by Damn interesting

https://www.propublica.org/article/looks-can-kill-the-deadly-results-of-flawed-design

There are a lot of these, and they’re very beautiful and cool. Medieval clockmaking, even early on, was clearly sophisticated.

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

http://io9.gizmodo.com/astronomical-clocks-were-a-wonder-of-the-medieval-world-1484069867

Although it doesn’t use the term “Universal Basic Income,” this article describes a possible mechanism (and justification) for it: corporations profit from free use of resources that belong to all of us in common. If that use is no longer free, but costs money which flows to everyone equally, you have a flow of money to the people who will be most likely to spend it (on, yes, goods which now cost more, but the money keeps on going round).

http://evonomics.com/dont-ditch-capitalism-tax-extractive-side-effects-fuel-growth-barnes/

Just started listening to this unusual episode of Writing Excuses on futurism – interesting for SF writers in particular.

http://www.writingexcuses.com/2016/07/31/11-31-futurism-with-trina-marie-phillips/