working notes of Future Fabulators

• prediction_markets
• can we use predictions to help separate/isolate important, predictable events within a “A Nonpredictive View of the World”? (cf. fragility → robustness → antifragility)
• what is the question? can it be answered diceisively at a particualr point in the future? what is at stake? what are the consequences or impacts?

• divination / invocation

• open formats > closed formats
• utf-8 > ascii/latin-1/etc+
• documents
  • utf-8 text or ODF (libreoffice, openoffice) for editable docs
  • pdf for reference & archiving
  • VUE for diagrams
• semi syncronous; email, twitter, irc (freenode → #ff ?)
• asyncronous; dokuwiki, django, gitlab
• algorithmic sketching; racket, common lisp, python, git
• online
  • libarynth for text, tangents and collation → http://libarynth.org
  • flickr for image matter → https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/
  • vimeo for video matter → http://vimeo.com/fo4m
  • zotero for library and references → https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library
• potentially
  • tumblr, cargo, diasp, other?
  • prediction book
  • wikipedia

• various scifi threads re. possible future cultures, shifting relation between humans & their environment, exploration of 'biosphere dividend'. near and far futures
  • bloom, ventus, mars trilogy, incrementalists, etc+
  • “A History of the Future in 100 Objects ” » notes and quotes
  • 'the culture' (iain_m_banks)
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
    • notes_on_the_culture
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_ideas_in_science_fiction
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_ideas_in_science_fiction
• The Hermetic Library reading room » http://hermetic.com/reading-room/
• Erwin Wagenhofer's movie about the crisis of creativity in education: http://www.alphabet-film.com/