Transgressive Love: Cyborg Tenderness – Part 2
PART ONE: Techno Desire and Cyber Sex It is now easy to love our selves as cyborgs, cyborg love is here, embrace it. The essential notion of Cyborg love is constructive transgression, a spreading out of our sense perception, into new domains of feeling. More than stimulating, less than exciting, slightly uncomfortable, the cyborg symbiosis...
Back to the Futurist: Liam Young
The fourth post of the Back to the Futurist series is dedicated to Liam Young. Previous in Series: Noah Raford Who is Liam Young? Liam currently lives and works in London as an independent urbanist, designer and futurist. He was named by Blueprint magazine as one of 25 people who will change architecture and design in 2010. He...
Back to the Futurist: Melissa Sterry
Who is Melissa Sterry? For our second interview in the Back to the Futurist series, we interview an old friend of Urban Times Melissa Sterry. Melissa is a futurist and design scientist specializing in emergent and future sustainable innovation in the built environment, design, manufacturing, materials, publishing, media and communications. A PhD researcher at the Advanced...
Is There Anybody Out There?
Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The answer to this most fundamental question is either yes, meaning we are part of a cosmos dotted with other lifeforms and perhaps even other civilisations, or no, in which case we are unique, special and alone. What would it mean to us as species to answer that...
A Voyage to the Future
Technologies of the future will owe much to the space industry as they do today, but what of our future in space itself? Though the space cities that sprawl across our science fiction may be some way off, we have already taken our first faltering steps in that direction. The International Space Station continues to...
Natural Disasters in 2050 – Episode 1: Floods
With city-wide flood disasters predicted by 2070, it has become ever more paramount that humans hone their abilities to accurately predict and counter-act the dangerous forces of nature. Most of us are beginning to realize that if we treat the world as well as we possibly can, as a collective unit, the devastation will be...
