Predicting Possible Futures

This article was written by Charlie Stross in May 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.Worldchanging ally Charlie Stross is not only a science fiction writer of some reknown, but one of our best thinkers about technology and the future as well. Recently he published the following speech on his blog. It's a sharp piece of thinking, which informs in new ways all sorts of subjects we've covered here before, and he's graciously given us permission to post it here as well. -AlexShaping the futureGood afternoon, and thank you for inviting me here today. ...Original article link