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2012 Trend Predictions | Culture, Tech, Ideas

Here's a round-up of 2012 cultural, tech, news and idea predictions from JWT, Marian Salzman - CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, The Guardian, Wired and iMediaConnection...

JWT: 10 Trends for 2012

JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2012
 

The Big Little Book of Nexts: Trendspotting for 2012
http://mariansalzman.com/?page_id=1674

The Guardian: How will technology influence the news in 2012?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/29/technology-med...

Predicting the next year's news is a fool's errand, but looking at technological trends could give us a hint. Subjects covered: Social revolutionaries | Tools for repression | Information cartels | Patent insanity | Apple power | Mobile madness | Cloudy weather | Journalism's shame

Pic: Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Wired: 25 Big Ideas for 2012
http://www.wired.co.uk/tags/25+Big+Ideas+For+2012

Subjects covered: 3D Surfaces | Cloud Gaming | The New Haptics | Wireless Mind Control | Crowd Restoration| Epigenetics | Olympian Biomechanics | Open-sourced Construction | Drone Hacking| Robowriters | Neurocinema | Always on sousveillance

Pic: Robowriters

The 10 hottest media trends for 2012
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/30723.asp 

Subjects covered: HTML5 | Mobile Rich Media | Facebook apps | Targeted Coupons | Social Buzz | Brands as Publishers | Dual Screening | Planet of the TV apps | Cross-media measurement | Audio watermarking

Syd Mead | The Space, Cars & Retro Future Collection

Just fantastic!

A few of my favs from the set...
Cockpit. For Leonov?

Sketch for the Leonov Ship for '2010' film.

Future heavy transport, 70's futurism.

More future transport.

Playboy Van Concept - a piece for Playboy in the late 70's, early 80's era when custom vans were all the rage. Mead pimping rides big time.

Decker's bathroom, Bladerunner.

Decker's car interior, Bladerunner.

Blade Runner, distant view of old and new architecture.

The Big Space Colony Art Collection

Space Colony Art from the 1970's
A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.
http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArt/art.html
http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/allyours.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/20/spacecolonies.html

Roy Scarfo
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2010/3/3/lunar-colonies-of-the-future-1969.html http://dedales563.canalblog.com/archives/2010/12/07/19793103.html http://www.fabiofeminofantascience.org/RETROFUTURE/RETROFUTURE22.html

Disney | Toroidal Space Colony of the Future (1982)
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2009/5/5/toroidal-space-colony-of-the-future-... 

Disney | Mars & Beyond (1957)
http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/02/mars-and-beyond-1957.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_and_Beyond

Wernher Von Braun's Blueprint for Space (1950's)
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2008/6/12/wernher-von-brauns-blueprint-for-sp...

And finally, Sport in Space Colonies (1977)
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/3/29/sport-in-space-colonies-1977.html

Futurist Art by Arthur Radebaugh

The illustrative work of Arthur C. Radebaugh, 1906-1974 - a dynamic joy to behold...(especially the artwork for BOHN). See more in a great collection here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/sets/72157622518584561/

"Radebaugh was a top-notch commercial illustrator who worked for companies as diverse as Chrysler and Coca-Cola. He was based in Detroit from the 1930s to 1960s, and much of his work anticipated design revolutions in the automotive and other industries. He once described his work as "halfway between science fiction and designs for modern living." from http://www.cartype.com/pages/2913/radebaugh

See more futures that never happened in my new favourite blog: http://www.paleofuture.com/