Analog Nation

The Florian Haarschnitt Center for Advanced Thought presents
Futurismology: What Will Life Be Like In Fifty Years?
We assembled some of the most progressive thinkers of our time at a retreat in the Swiss Alps. Sequestered far from interruption, our “tank of thinkers” spent two weeks debating the likely course of events over the next half-century. Pausing [...]

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Behold, one of the strongest forces in nature: the iron-clad grip of popular fiction.
The page-turner, the blockbuster, the serial drama that sends us diving for the DVR — they sink their hooks into our fleshiest bits, and keep piercing until they hit daylight on the other side. Having witnessed my Dad get a fishing [...]

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The Scots called it Dùnrath. It lay on the northern coast of the isle, keeping watch as the cold waves broke upon its shore. No one’s quite certain where the name came from, but it is thought to derive from an ancient stone fort nearby, called a “broch.” In 1437, invaders from Clan MacKay met [...]

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At first there were just a few in southern California. Within a few days they were appearing in New York and Texas. By the beginning of last week, it was nationwide, rapidly spreading to other countries. Now, less than a fortnight since the initial outbreak, it has spread to every corner of the Earth, except [...]

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