The Imagined Future of 02013
Long Now’s Long Bets project is founded on the premise that we can improve our long-term thinking by holding ourselves accountable for the predictions we make about the future. By revisiting our forecasts as time goes by, we reveal the subtle mechanics of society’s evolution, and teach ourselves something about what kinds of visions might turn into reality.
Jerry Lockenour, a professor of engineering at the University of Southern California, has turned this premise into a lesson plan. Students in his Technology Development and Applications class are going back to the future: they are studying a 01988 issue of the Los Angeles Times’ Magazine, which offered a vision of the futuristic LA of 02013…
Introducing the new HTML5 template Tag - SitePoint
Have you ever needed to reuse or repeat document fragments in your page? The W3C has finally agreed a standard way to define DOM templates — Craig looks at the new HTML5 template tag.
