Minority Report
The NYC Collective Providing Free Art Workshops to Kids of Color
After receiving backlash for making T-shirts that read "white artists bore me," artist Danny Castaneda decided to start Minority Report, an art collective focused on uplifting people of color within art spaces.
We’ve Already Seen the Future ‘Altered Carbon’ Has to Offer
There’s nothing “punk” about today’s cyberpunk.
We May Already Be Living in the Terrifying World of 'Minority Report'
The new doc 'Pre-Crime' asks us to be skeptical of predictive databases used by police to identify "probable" risks to our security.
Centrelink's Debt Crisis Shows How the Government Can Abuse Big Data
"This is a political failure dressed up as an an IT failure... [Big data is] a powerful tool. How that tool is used—for good or evil—depends on how accountable the people are who wield it."
What Sci-Fi Gets Wrong, Design Fiction Could Get Right
Waving our hands at the future, from 'Minority Report,' to tablets, to drones in our faces.
The World’s Largest Clairvoyance Experiment Has Begun
I met with Hunter Lee Soik, the 33-year-old behind Shadow—an app that lets you record your dreams upon waking and enter them into a massive database.
Face-Scanning Screens That Can Determine Your Age and Gender Are Coming to a Gas Station Near You
And they're going to target you with ads while you wait to pay for gas.
The Long Eye of the Law: So Who's Ready for a 'Minority Report'-Style Future?
So-called "predictive policing" isn't an exact science. But what if it could be?
Clyde's Corner: Skateboarding Rules
I was kinda stumped on what to write this week. Truth be told, I had my head in these books pretty tough the last few weeks and wanted nothing to do with words, whatsoever. I did finish this semester with an A and a B for all you smarty-art ass cats...
Yesterday's Tomorrow Is Today's Colossal Disappointment
For 100 years, movies have tried to show us what the future might hold. Now, in 2008 (which is officially "the future"), we can look back and say: They were almost entirely wrong. Nevertheless, here are their best efforts.