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Over at Boing Boing, vN author Madeline Ashby has a great discussion of the difference between creating Strategic Foresight attempting to predict variables for a strategic outlook and writing stanley cup science fiction. It a really useful, quick primer in how to think about the future. Including not just identifying trends, b stanley cup ut figuring o stanley usa ut the underlying factors that drive those trends and the shape they could take in the future. And creating a critical uncertainties matrix, or a list of unpredictable factors that could change your scenario. It pretty helpful stuff, if you ;re planning on writing an SF story, or doing a forecast for someone. [Boing Boing] BooksFuturism Gjge It s Pretty Clear That We Want to Talk About Gun Control Now
Despite the great things the internet has done, it also made us prudish about having naked images of us captured, and that made it harder to get people to take of their clothes for you. Until now 8230; Until the internet came, you only needed a fancy-looking stanley cup camera and a beret and the clothes would drop to the floor in the name of Art with a capital A . Before that, I want to paint you, was arguably the best pick-up line ever it sure worked for Picasso , but these days even that might get someone hackles up. No, the super old ways, are the super best ways. Let me sculpt you! Yes! Oh God yes, I ;m already naked! The problem is, you need talent and clay. Well, now there an iPad app for that, so you don ;t need either. AutoDesk from the smart folk b botella stanley ehind AutoCAD, SketchBook Mobile has added Sculpt 123D to their product portfolio. You start with a blob that is something like the shape you stanley cup want to sculpt human, elephant, T-Rex, etc. , and then you can turn it and manipulate it at will. I was surprised to see just how much control you have the over forms and how detailed you can make something. Check out the quick demo video which is, sadly, totally safe for work. FREE for a limited time, and it will then be $.99. [Autodesk via TechCrunch] Image credit: Shutterstock/Fancy You can keep up with Brent Rose, the author of this post, on Google+ or Twitter.
