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Mt. Rainier one more time
So last week I mentioned I was taking a day off to go snow shoe hiking on Mt. Rainer with our son David. He is the David Ryder of Ryder Pictures here in Seattle, a photo journalist and film maker. It was an epic...
Continue ReadingVisions from the Edge
I am looking forward to working next week with collaborators Kate McCallum and Ron James as we record interviews for our Visions from the Edge project, still in formation stages. We’ll be at the Future In Review conference all week. With luck we’ll be...
Continue Reading3D Printing and Hollywood
A few years ago I had the opportunity to work on several television projects, for producers like Steven Bochco, on shows that were to be set in the future. In providing technical advice, one thing I mentioned to prop and set designers was that...
Continue ReadingHunger Games, dystopian books and the future
I have not yet read the books that inspired the new hit movie, Hunger Games. But the website Goodreads has produced a nice guide to dystopian novels, tracking their themes and popularity, in this infographic.
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