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Why Casablanca is the future of the world

Just before the uprisings now known collectively as “Arab Spring,” I took a short trip to Casablanca, the wealthiest and largest city in North Africa. And there I had a vision of the future. It’s become a truism to say that cities like Tokyo and Shanghai represent the future of the world, but as scifi…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 4

Why the Singularity isn’t going to happen

I don’t believe in the Singularity for the same reason I don’t believe in Heaven. Once I met a Singularity zealot who claimed that eating potato chips after the Singularity would induce sublime ecstasy. Our senses would be so heightened that we could completely focus our whole attention on the ultimate chippiness of the chip.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 14

How the Google/Verizon proposal could kill the internet in 5 years

Earlier this week Google and Verizon pledged to uphold a set of network principles that could transform the internet into a husk of its former self. Let’s look down the barrel of the Googlezon* future. Keep in mind that the two-page Googlezon proposal, which you can read here, isn’t law, though both companies have requested…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 11

An imaginary city that changed the twentieth century

Before he invented the safety razor, King Camp Gillette was a futurist. In 1894, he published plans for a porcelain, hexagonal city with transparent sidewalks. Why do so many innovators dream of building the perfect city? I’ve been thinking about that question a lot since seeing Christopher Nolan’s new film Inception, which is in part…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 22

Your fantasies are not acceptable

When does a science fiction story or game stop being a fantasy, and start becoming an unacceptable desire? It’s one of the criticisms that fans and people in the fantasy-making business hear all the time: “Why would anybody want that to happen?” Or, put slightly differently, “Why do you enjoy this? What is wrong with…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jul 8

Three ways that women are about to change the world

Now that women dominate the US workforce, will they become our new robot overlords? Nope. According to current labor statistics, they’ll be the new working class. Here are three ways a female working class could change the world. Image via Shutterstock. “Women’s jobs” will become everybody’s jobs In this month’s Atlantic cover story, Hanna Rosin…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 30

Editor’s column

Why Casablanca is the future of the world

Why the Singularity isn’t going to happen

How the Google/Verizon proposal could kill the internet in 5 years

An imaginary city that changed the twentieth century

Your fantasies are not acceptable

Three ways that women are about to change the world

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