resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene And here's my former McGill colleague Bernhard Lehner's 200 yrs of world dam data https://t.co/dO4721U8U4 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene Here's James Syvitski in 2011 of 200 yrs of USA dam construction http://t.co/qDj1nEpU9d May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @erleellis: Abstract time for the 2014 Global Land Project Open Science Meeting in Berlin http://t.co/dn7Wo8I5y8 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading UNEP's: #City-Level DeCoupling-urban resource flows & the governance of infrastructure #transitions http://t.co/9B3IFBoJ5R May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Agricultural regime shift in Texas: long term aquifer depletion+drought= loss of vast areas of farm land http://t.co/fsYyuaJxD5 #resilience May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Listening to 1st 1/2time seminar in SRC's sustainability science program: Rebecka Malinga on managing ecosystem services in ag landscapes May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Fun SRC discussion on useful approaches to linking models (ABMs to causal loops) to statistics (regressions to random forests) in #SES May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Diversity of and trends in inequality in OECD great to see important after tax & transfer inequality key http://t.co/hcIZIqGlbO May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reforming Global trade networks - Public Outrage Over Factory Conditions Spurs Labor Deal #ranaplaza http://t.co/LKp8IEZiOP May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @leafwarbler: An open letter from Prof. Madhav Gadgil to the Kasturirangan panel: Shocking betrayal on Western Ghats http://t.co/UWiwwX1… May 18, 2013
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William Gibson does not think our present was anyone’s future
David Wallace-Wells has a long interview with William Gibson on the Art of Fiction in the Paris Review. The interview concludes Do you think of your last three books as being science fiction? GIBSON No, I think of them as attempts … Continue reading
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Pattern recognition
I quoted William Gibson‘s book Pattern Recognition in a workshop on Expertise for the Future the other day. Gibson wrote: … we have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Hubertus Bigend, narrative, Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
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William Gibson on the future
Novelist William Gibson interviewed by BBC News: The rapid rate of technological and social change means the future comes crashing towards us faster than ever before, says visionary science fiction author William Gibson. “In the 1960s I think that in … Continue reading