Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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Anticipating the Future through Knowledge of the Fiction in Social Reality

November 17th, 2011 in Category: Future Design

I was the keynote speaker at the conference on "Das Wissen der Zukunft" ("Knowledge of the Future") that took place at the University of Vienna on November 4-5, 2011. These are the lecture notes for my speech.
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Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Mattia Nicoletti

November 16th, 2011 in Category: Uncategorized

On November 3, 2011, Alan N. Shapiro was interviewed by the Italian journalist Mattia Nicoletti for the Milanese daily newspaper "Il Metro Quotidiano." This is the English version of the interview that appeared in Italian.