andreworford

futurologist

[andreworford @orford]

Constructing a healthy walk / heritage trail
(via my curated tweets)
I hope to develop this into a facilitation tool
https://t.co/QT4poAPFi3

[Dennis Severs' House @DennisSeversHse]

''I have recently come to accept what I refused to accept for so long: that the house is only ephemeral. That no one can put a preservation order on atmosphere.''⁠
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Extract from The @Guardian ⁠
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Dennis Severs 1948 - 1999⁠

[Blake Quarterly @BlakeQuarterly]

Even better, as of 1 July 2026 our contents are now free to read (no paywall).
You can find the summer 2026 issue at
https://t.co/nEjlBe6MOO

[David Wood @dw2]

Just announced: a @LondonFuturists webinar on Saturday 15th August: "Disruptive Climate Futures - The physics, the feedback, the levers, and the implications of possible responses", with Dr Tom Harris

More details and RSVP here: https://t.co/5Blxi6TsnD

[Lady Pamela @LadyPam56529437]

While visiting a park in Lewisham, I unexpectedly noticed an historical London County Council Boundary marker. Thrilled. @orford

[Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi @genmon]

Realism of the movie WarGames vs time

[andreworford @orford]

https://t.co/aGo6sVTMve

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Star Axis is complete. Fifty years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory on a mesa in New Mexico. A staircase, aligned with Earth's axis, climbs to a open lens that tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's gravitational wobble.

Read the beautiful feature in the NYT: https://t.co/vXco4bZcNB

[Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi]

https://t.co/qZ0p2do2w1

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

One kilogram of crystal pulls up to 2.8 liters of drinking water out of dry desert air every day, powered by nothing but sunlight. It's called MOF-801, and the chemistry behind it shared the 2025 Nobel Prize. I build chemical plants. MOF-801 is zirconium nodes linked by fumarate molecules, with pores sized to catch single water molecules. Omar Yaghi's company Atoco is building container-scale units for 1,000 liters of clean water a day, off-grid. Prototypes have already run in the California desert. In Dune they were called wind traps. They remained science fiction for 60 years. The bottleneck has moved from chemistry to manufacturing. Growing these frameworks by the ton, pressing the powder into forms that survive years of use, and building the systems around them cheaply enough to matter.

[Christchurch Steve @SRChristchurch]

Camille Pissarro, born on this day in 1830 - revolutionary Danish/French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, who was the only artist to exhibit at all 8 Paris Impressionist exhibitions between 1874-86. He died 13 Nov 1903 aged 73 #history #France #art

[Lady Pamela @LadyPam56529437]

Astonished by the ripple circle the Pond Skater had made in the Model Boating Pond at St. Mary Cray, as it came over to investigate me while I was looking at it. @orford

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Historians have used AI to restore lost verses of Gilgamesh, decipher carbonized papyrus scrolls sealed for millennia, and fill in gaps in 2,000-year-old Greek inscriptions.

What ancient languages will AI decode next?

@grescoe reports on the quantum leaps in ancient language decipherment, and which codes AI can’t crack (yet) ->
https://t.co/dcBjQS2XlW

[Ladywell Live @LadywellLive]

This Sunday: Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries is holding an open day. Come and explore one of Lewisham's great green spaces - a place of memories and history, a haven for wildlife. Guided walks, plant sales, refreshments, community stalls. 11.30-4.30. Admission free.

[Joe Brown @JoeBrownLondon]

#OnThisDay 85 years ago Leman Street station closed. Barely a stone's throw from Fenchurch Street, halfway between there and Shadwell, it was one of several East End wartime casualties that never reopened. Photo / map: L A Blount/ Disused Stations https://t.co/B6wpI6aEL0

[Ladislav Hagara @x14c3]

https://t.co/D9vYVYSCyV

[David Wood @dw2]

"David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82" https://t.co/a8v8NL5Ctt

[Peter Stone @LondonStone]

When it opened today in 1840 it was one of London's strangest railways. A year later it became the first to enter the City of London. Read here about the London & Blackwall Railway https://t.co/8WBAyIGQRr

[Van Neistat @v_neistat]

An interview (of me) that got my marbles rolling: https://t.co/wMldSORO0u

[Peter Stone @LondonStone]

This windmill at Shirley, a suburb of Croydon, is one of six surviving windmills in Greater London. You can visit it on an open day this Sunday. And you can discover all London’s windmills in my video https://t.co/pawRZhwwjV

[Ben Goertzel @bengoertzel]

https://t.co/4xmtxG4YZP