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...
Techno Desire and Cyber Sex – Part 1
That we are intimate with the world is not news. That we have extended this intimacy to our tools is a reality; the idea that we are becoming cyborgs is already here. There is nothing mysterious or futuristic about being a cyborg, part machine part biological organism. Using our smartphones to remember our appointments, a...
Waterless Washing Machine
When I first stumbled across Elie Ahovi’s brilliant idea of a waterless washing machine, the professionality of the campaign made me truly believe this was on the market already. Imagine! A more time efficient and ecologically conscious solution to one of the most hideous household chores that many of us endure day-in-day-out. Imagine having the...
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...
New Breeds of Cities – Fictional Solutions to Future Problems
Urbanization: The Rise With the rise of Urbanization, cities will soon face the issue of accommodating an influx of citizens. This will result in increased housing developments, and for land-scarce urban centers, increase in high-rises. After all, if a city cannot or will not expand outward due to any variety of reasons, the only way...
Life in 2050: An Infographic
Thanks to the smart people at GOOD, we now have a beautiful infographic displaying the crowd-sourced visions of the future. Using data from Pew Research and the Smithsonian Magazine, the visual map indicates the most vital breakthroughs we can expect to see. The over-arching message is that technological advancement will surge ahead offering up conversation-ready...
