SF Signal: INTERVIEW: Dr. Michio Kaku The blur between future fictions popularised as such and those expounded as forecasts or predictions is a tricky space to navigate, as illustrated by an interview between ‘SF Signal’ and Prof. Michio Kaku (tags: blogs anticipation future futurology uncertainty science scifi)

BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | Satellites track school journeys “More than 1,000 youngsters are taking part in the two-year study into their physical activity and eating behaviour. Global Positioning System (GPS) watches and waist monitors are worn to measure their movements to and from school.” (tags: science gps surveillance [...]

SENSEable City “The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed – al (tags: academic architecture urbancomputing urban

The Associated Press: Amazon Launches Text-Message Shopping (tags: technology mobile commerce) Matrix-style virtual worlds ‘a few years away’ – tech – 03 April 2008 – New Scientist Tech (tags: future anticipation futurology endofcyberspace internet) OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting and Using Your [...]

How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients – ReadWriteWeb “We used the Twitter API to monitor the public feed and capture data on 37,248 tweets over a 24 hour period.” The Web interface is by far the most popular with 56% of postings, then IM 8%, Twhirl 7%, Twitterific 7%, [...]

Payer le taxi avec son mobile?! at BLOG NFC “NTT DoCoMo, Japanese mobile operator, has announced the use of a new contact-less payment terminal for taxis…” (tags: nfc mobile payment Japan docomo) Adult social networking sites attract young users | Technology | The Guardian “Millions of children are [...]

Technology Review: TR10: Augmented Reality (tags: future anticipation innovation nokia research mobile forecasting technology) Technology Review: TR10: Reality Mining “Some people are nervous about trailing digital bread crumbs behind them. Sandy Pentland, however, revels in it. In fact, the MIT professor of media arts and [...]