futurism

A.I. awakenings, sex spies and the shortest solstice + this day in history w/“Funky Drummer” and our song of the day by Best Coast on your Morning Monarchy for December 20, 2016.

Pokémon control, broader biometrics and the drone zone + this day in history w/the Bisbee Deportation and our song of the day by Mindz Of A Different Kind on your Morning Monarchy for July 12, 2016.

Randy Johnson
21st Century Wire

‘MIRROR MIRROR’ – Am I still just a movie concept?  Virtual ‘avatar’ technology is in its infancy – as far as we know (Image: Actor Sam Worthington from the science fiction blockbuster film, Avatar).

A move for the restoration of the Mont Order to its former status as a club of progressive thinkers and students has been successfully made. The Zero State, a techno-progressive activist group centered on the ideas of M. Amon Twyman, is now associated with the Mont Order.

Admittedly inspired by the Milgram Experiment, Veronica Roth's 'Divergent' is making easy money at the box office - but do the bad reviews show that youth are rejecting this latest batch of predictive programming?

As a futurist, one of my aims has been to bring forward some of the more challenging and insightful predictions of the political future. Of these, the most important is the idea that the Nineteenth Century nation-state model, currently accepted as sovereign, must go.
Bad politics, or politics of the future?