Category: Hieroglyph
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Interview: Author and Hieroglyph Community Member John C. Havens
John C. Havens is a Hieroglyph community member, a contributor to Mashable and The Guardian and the author of the book Hacking Happiness. I had a chance to read John’s new book, Heartifical Intelligence (to be published February 2016 by Tarcher/Penguin) and chat with him about his work studying the intersection of emerging technology and…
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Spotlight on the Community: April Davis
April Davis is a new member of the Hieroglyph community. She is studying geophysics and astronomy at Cal Poly Pomona and can be found doing field work in the Arctic, Hawaii, and at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. I caught up with April over email to talk about her latest adventures and how…
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Just How Realistic Is Buzz Aldrin’s Plan to Colonize Mars?
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/buzz-aldrin-colonize-mars-within-25-years The second man to walk on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin – along with the Florida Institute of Technology – has joined the growing ranks of space colonization advocates that foresee the settlement of Mars in the near future. Other groups, such as SpaceX, NASA, and the much-harangued Mars One, all have plans in…
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Excerpt, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
John C. Havens is the author of Hacking Happiness: Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Save the World (Tarcher/Penguin, 2014). His work has appeared in Mashable, The Guardian, Slate, and Fast Company. He is the founder of the non-profit Happathon Project, which combines emerging technology and positive psychology to increase well-being.…
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Robert Buelteman: Painting with Energy
Following Joseph Campbell, I also believe that the purpose of art is to “break windows through the walls of culture to visit eternity.” This particular collection of images, titled Life and Shadow, is my fifth series of energetic photograms. Unlike my previous portfolios that were geographically based, this selection is intended to be an evolutionary…
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Hieroglyph Anthology Recognized by Association of Professional Futurists
We were surprised and honored earlier this week with the announcement that our anthology Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future was honored with an award for Most Significant Futures Work (MSFW) by the Association of Professional Futurists. Established in 2007, the MSFW Awards honors works that advance the work of foresight and futures…
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Margaret Atwood and Hieroglyph Authors Explore Climate Fiction
Science fiction often heralds a change in our collective understanding of the world. From H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine to Toho’s Godzilla, the genre has provided us guideposts as well as enormous flashing yield, slow, or stop signs to help us navigate the path forward. Today, the rapidly expanding subgenre of “cli-fi” is beginning…
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The Hieroglyph Reading List: Tell Us Your Favorite Visions of the Future
A few days ago, a Hieroglyph community member directed our attention to a poster in their library called The History of Science Fiction, by the artist Ward Shelley. In the image, Shelley maps the genealogy of science fiction and all of its branches and sub-genres to create a tentacled amoeboid. It’s exactly the kind of…
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Poetry for Robots
We understand the world through metaphor. Our minds seek and spin patterns and connections, likenesses and equations. Biologist and anthropologist Gregory Bateson observed that metaphor is “how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.” As above, so below. The most effective and explicit specimens of…
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Where the Holograms At?
Microsoft recently unveiled a new demo for their HoloLens and my inner child did a little backflip. I remember playing arcade games like Sega’s Time Traveler or Holosseum as a kid and thinking that I was witnessing the future of entertainment. In my mind, a working Holodeck was right around the corner. Then, almost as…