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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Lecture-Performance in Amsterdam (Alan N. Shapiro and Regan O’Brien), with video clips

June 6th, 2012 in Category: Car of the Future, Performance Studies

On March 14, 2012, I did a lecture-performance in Amsterdam, together with the choreographer and performance studies scholar Regan O'Brien.
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The Car of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko

February 15th, 2012 in Category: Car of the Future, Donna Haraway, Future Design, Gregory Bateson, Marshall McLuhan, Paul Virilio, Real/Virtual Reality

In November 2008, Alan N. Shapiro was invited by Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany to speak about his ideas about "the car of the future." He spoke in front of an audience of people from the Human-Machine Interface Dept. and and the Infotainment Dept. This text was written as accompaniment to that presentation.
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The Car of the Future, folding study, by Nick Pugh

August 5th, 2010 in Category: Car of the Future, Future Design

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh.
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The Car of the Future, alternate modes, by Nick Pugh

August 5th, 2010 in Category: Car of the Future, Future Design

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh
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The Car of the Future, detail sketches, by Nick Pugh

August 4th, 2010 in Category: Car of the Future, Future Design

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh.
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The Car of the Future, more sketches, by Nick Pugh

July 22nd, 2010 in Category: Car of the Future

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh.
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Bayerischer Rundfunk programme on Alan N. Shapiro

June 20th, 2010 in Category: Android Data, Androids & Artificial Life, Baseball, Car of the Future, Casino Gambling, Dance Theory, Hans-Peter Dürr, Humanities Informatics, Rethinking Science, Star Trek

On June 13, 2010, Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast a 38-minute programme (mostly in German) about the ideas and projects of Alan N. Shapiro. The show was produced by Florian Fricke. It includes a segment on the social choreography ideas and practice of Alan's close friend Steve Valk.
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Sketches of the Car of the Future, by Nick Pugh

May 26th, 2010 in Category: Car of the Future, Future Design

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh.
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The Car of the Future is a Virtual Reality Game Platform

May 26th, 2010 in Category: Car of the Future, Future Design, Paul Virilio

In our concept of the Car of the Future, people will use their cars a good deal of the time for activities that take place in a virtual reality environment, and less for the physical activity of getting from point A to point B. This will have the direct outcome that less petroleum will be used, and less pollution will be given off.
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The Car of the Future is a Shapeshifter, by Nick Pugh

May 26th, 2010 in Category: Car of the Future, Future Design

As population continues to increase and our cities become ever more dense the need will arise to develop new technologies that actively compact and minimize the products we use, especially the automobile.
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Wir brauchen künstliche Intelligenz

April 15th, 2010 in Category: Car of the Future, Humanities Informatics

On February 5, 2010, Shapiro was interviewed for a second time on Deutschlandradio Kultur, talking about the New Computer Science and the Car of the Future.
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Transmediale: The Car of the Future

April 15th, 2010 in Category: Car of the Future

On February 3, 2010, Alan N. Shapiro gave a lecture at the FUTURITY NOW! Transmediale Festival in Berlin, talking about the Car of the Future, and presenting visualizations of the ideas first elaborated in the essay "The Car of the Future," made by the designer Nick Pugh.