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futurismic

If you don't already, check Futurismic (also on sidebar, to the right) for all kinds of wild, hopeful, or at least interesting tech and culture aritcles (e.g this National Design Triennial entry, "Wave Garden"). My good friend Jeremy runs it, and I sometimes contribute there as well. The term "futurismic" captures the spirit of futur-ism, since "futuris-tic" anymore conjures images of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," or the Apollo astronauts. Where has our future gone?

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