Friday A/V Club: Orson Welles' Apocalyptic Trilogy
One man, three doomsdays
Future
Stop Complaining About That Flying Car. You Have Amazon.
Getting stuff gets more awesome every day.
Good News: The Bad News Is Overhyped
Optimism isn't just an attitude-it's an accurate assessment of how well the human race has fared over the past several centuries.
Elon Musk's Latest Transportation Innovation a Literal Pipe Dream
Introducing the Hyperloop, which is not the name of a power-up in a kart-racing video game
Imagining the World in 2030: "Driven by new technologies, nonstate actors take the lead in confronting global challenges."
The National Intelligence Council presents possibilites for how the next 20 years might play out
A More Better Future
A review of Abundance: Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think by X Prize guru Peter Diamandis and journalist Steven Kotler.
It's Hard to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future
The new book Future Babble explains why dart-throwing monkeys are better at predicting the future than most pundits.
Choosing Our Own Future
Will we greet new technologies with more regulation or more liberty?
Doomsday Criers & Technocrats
Optimism gives the technocrats no reason to plan for anything, while pessimism gives them sufficient reason to plan for everything.
