“It would give everyone in the world more than four billion addresses each, but most of the internet industry has so far been reluctant to introduce it. It would require each device that connects to the internet to be reconfigured or upgraded, with some users even being forced to buy new hardware, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.”

(Via Geekologie, FoxNews)

“Global Mundo Tapas, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia, has replaced its menus with the MenuPad app for iPads…”

1.    What does the future look like? the face of a newborn babe
2.    What color is the sky? blue
3.    What does the future smell like? unwashed hair
4.    What does the future taste like? peach
5.    What color is the future? the color of tears

6.    What’s the future’s name? lolita
7.    What’s it like to sleep in the future? everyone is asleep and sleepless
8.    What’s it like to wake up in the future? not possible except for the few nonconformists
9.    What’s it like to dream in the future? there will be no difference between life and dreams because everyone will be dreaming or involved in virtual dream worlds.
10.    What’s it like to die in the future? no more burials. everyone will be either turned into coral reefs or diamonds.
11.    What is your bedroom like in the future? awesome
12.    What is home in the future? internet
13.    What’s it like to walk down the street in the future? walking is obsolete. atom to atom teleportation.
14.    What does skin feel like in the future? fake-natural
15.    What is light like in the future? disco
16.    What is God in the future? God
17.    What is unknown in the future? the future
18.    What is young in the future? the age of the universe
19.    How do you communicate in the future? cell phones
20.    What is lost in the future? data. hard drives crash. oceans. areas will mysteriously disappear.
21.    What is found in the future? infinity
22.    What is bright in the future? the past
23.    What is dark in the future? hearts

suggested by mactonnies, via fashiongonerougue

There’s a sound piece, if you’re interested, that I made that goes with the photographs. The words you hear in it are phrases I chose from the interviews I collected.  Listen to it here.

You like?

[Photographed by Justin Langley, Photoshopped by me, make-up and lack of hair by Amanda Egle]

For more info about this photo, check out my post about it on Fantasy IRL.

[via posthuman blues via oobject]

[via NOTCOT]

I thought of doing a project like this not too long ago but it looks like someone beat me to it.

[via io9]

In England, surveillance cameras are being installed into a number of government-subsidized homes.   Their purpose? To watch over the children of “problem families” (whatever that means), making sure they do their homework and get to bed one time.  So parents are incapable raising their children themselves now, I guess. I mean, yeah, there are some people out there that aren’t fit to be parents but could this new system of child welfare also ultimately encourage even more parental neglect and laziness than got them put into the special housing in the first place?

Also, special security will drop by each home from time to time to check in on the kids.  With constant watch over them, the government hopes that fewer of these potentially troubled children will turn to crime or drug and alcohol abuse as ways to cope with their tumultuous family lives.

Like I said, sounds to me like the government is just putting families into a situation where they can be more lazy, knowing that someone is already always watching out for their children.  That or parents and children alike will learn, if they haven’t already, to fear the government.

I think at this point it would be too obvious mention Orwellian future, Big Brother or hey, I wasn’t aware it was still 1984.  Oh wait… I just did.

[via Gizmodo via Daily Express]