Recently in Future Category

Beware the killer robots posted in global post by Tom Abate explains how warfare technology will change to include weapons design to fight on their own.  It is not far fetched.  The growing use of semi-autonomous military robots has occurred, but when will robots make the life and death decisions?

I have blogged about FutureMonitor before, but I continue to be impressed by the content posted and the editorial care that Chris Meyer and his team are taking to make the site valuable.  Since I am particularly interested in Trend Scanning, one of the sections that I recommend is the bibliography of Articles and Reports on discerning trends.  The discussions are also beginning to generate a lot of paricipation and comments, making for interesting moderated conversations.

In an email today, Chris mentioned that the site has entered a public beta and that new content is being added regularly.

FutureMonitor is a new platform for discussing the future.  Chris Meyer and his colleagues at Monitor Networks and the Financial Times  have designed a compelling new site that aims to capture insight about the near-term future.  By near-term future, they mean trends that will matter most to business in the next two years.  The team is very ambitious; they want the collaboration to be... "the primary source of insight into the future, generated through on line conversations with people who are shaping the future every day".

So far, a small number of users are contributing to the site and posting on a small number of example topics that have business implications.  As the site opens up to more discussion and a wider variety of views, it will become much more interesting.  Right now, I am participating in a conversation on who owns the content that one posts on collaborative web sites like Flickr or del.icio.us.