futurism

Mute Post-Crunch Fiction Special (2009)

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short fiction
the future

Mute magazine has published a special edition featuring some fictional futurism.

Posted on December 23rd, 2009

Nineties Retro: A Visit to the Human Genome Project (1998)

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Posted on April 21st, 2009

Nineties Retro: Interviewing Arthur C. Clarke at Megatripolis (1996)

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Tron  Hari

Recently uploaded on Youtube, a reminder of quite how absurd the nineties really were. Megatripolis was a deranged London club which tried to combine psychedelic trance music, innovative pharmacology, lots of day-glo and consciousness-raising discussions with the likes of Alan Ginsberg and Terence McKenna.

Posted on April 20th, 2009

Dubai: Sim City (1998)

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travel
Burj Dubai




Posted on April 14th, 2009

1999 AD

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futurism

A clip from the 1967 film 199AD, predicting, among other things, the 'home post office'.

Posted on December 31st, 2008

After Farming (2001)

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futurism
Catherine Story

 Four satirical land use scenarios by Hari Kunzru and James Flint, illustrated by Catherine Story.

Posted on December 17th, 2008
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