February 26 2008 / by Alvis
Category: Other Year: 2008 Month: Feb Rating: 20
“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to
spend the rest of my life.”
—George Burns, late
great cigar smoking comedian
As a species, we just can’t get ahead.
Despite the many innovations that have bettered humans’ ability
to look into the future, the ongoing convergence of these
technologies and information structures has accelerated the pace of
change, 
making it harder for us to imagine what’s just around the
corner. New blogs (Tech Crunch, Mashable, Gizmodo), trend trackers
(TechMeme,
Buzz Market,
Trendio) and
prediction markets (Inkling, Predictify, Zii Trend) are useful and
necessary attempts to claim back our forecasting advantage. Adding
to such efforts is the brand new Future Blogger, a site
that aims to take discussion of the wider future to the next
level.
On behalf of the Future Blogger team:
Welcome!!
Future Blogger is a blog network focused on exploring
ground-breaking information related to the future. The site
combines rich top-down reporting and images with broad bottom-up
content generated by a community with diverse interests. Experts
and amateurs alike can contribute predictions, scenarios, trend
analyses, future fiction, illustrations, videos and any other
future-related content. Guided by a community feedback system, the
best posts are funneled to the top, to the front page and a broader
audience, where they receive increased community feedback. These
posts are also submitted to Future Scanner, a future-focused
digg-clone that both amplifies the signal of Future Blogger and
serves as a valuable resource for future bloggers working on new
posts.
All that being said, what does all of this mean for you, the
future-interested web surfer?
For one, you can regularly check out the main pages of both
Future Blogger and Future Scanner to quickly get an overview of the
wild future ahead of us. Go deeper by filtering content by future
year and category or by exploring other posts by your favorite
future bloggers. And make sure to take advantage of our various
RSS feeds and Facebook widget if you’re
pressed for time.
It’s also easy (and free) to open an account that lets you
comment, vote, submit cool links and keep track of your favorite
content. Taking a moment to setup a MemeBox account will not only
help organize your simulation of the future, it will serve to
incorporate your feedback into the broader site, helping shape the
overall direction and content.
For those of you looking to contribute memes to the global
future dialogue, there’s no better place to post your thoughts,
predictions, illustrations and scenarios than Future Blogger.
Whether you’re an established writer looking to extend your reach,
or an up-and-coming thinker seeking feedback and an audience,
teaming with the Future Blogger community is a win-win proposition.
You can easily submit original or cross-posted content through your
user account to engage an active future-focused community.
Together, Future Blogger and Future Scanner represent a new
method for imagining the future ahead of us. As Burns said, we’re
all going to spend the rest of our lives there, so it’s important
that we better our simulation of what’s coming next. We’re psyched
that you’ve ventured our way and hope you’ll stick around as we
build a valuable resource and thread together visions of the
possible tomorrows ahead of us.
Holler at Your Future-Focused Boys & Girls, -vis
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