While I’m on the subject, here’s a service for those who don’t want to wait for deathswitch (you know, the service that kicks in after you die and continue handling your virtual lif...
OK, it’s gone long enough now without a post about the wondrous dating opportunities in the world of any. So here goes. Nick Hornby knew it before people even knew of the internet, and even Sel...
I wonder if there will be a Moviestar Planet IPO soon? It’s a social network that is to tweens what facebook is to us old folks. Huge in Scandinavia. With the twist that YOU can be a famous sup...
Yesterday was Mother’s Day in Sweden. If you didn’t give your kids’ mom a real treat, make up for it. Now! Ashley Madison recently revealed some of their statistics. The day after M...
This is fabulous. A recent study from the University of California shows that checking your email is pretty much like bungee jumping: Hooking people up with monitors, they found that breathing become...
Not only is facebook to blame for a lot of people’s very recent financial miseries, a UK study suggests it could be to blame for marital misfortunes, too: Comparing the last two years’ di...
I love it. Finally someone, actually quite a lot of people, are suing nextopia. With all the terrible things nextopia is to blame for, ranging from stress to divorces to over consumption, it’s ...
Finally, a service for all of us who can’t wait to find out what some people will tweet next. Or for those of us who are stressing out over figuring what to tweet next ourselves to keep our nex...
About a month ago, getpebble informed the world that they want to produce the Pebble smartwatch, an e-paper wifi wristwatch, and invited anyone to fund the project on Kickstarter . In a couple of wee...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard it a thousand times already: Today is the IPO of Facebook, that is, anyone can buy stock in the company. Being the next big thing in f...
Combine warp consumption and Generation Boss and you get the natural next step after minisodes and 5-second movies: The Viddy! Now you don’t have to settle for editing a network TV episode or m...
In Sweden, we have a term, “Hemnet junkies”, for all the people that more or less compulsively browse the pages of the country’s major online real estate portal Hemnet. Makes sense,...
…Maybe it spells ruck.us? After all, we live in a time of warpolitics. I’ve written about it here before, how politics have warped in the last few years, so that monthly, or even weekly, ...
Nextopia business rule #1: Sell tomorrow today. Nobody knows it better than Obama. Last week, he kickstarted his nextopia campaign with the same-sex marriage explosion. This week, he cashes in. By th...
Obama is certainly calling on nextopia now. Using the next election to reinvent himself from sitting president to that wonderful next one, he’s rallying attention. First off, the next soundtrac...
The election is getting closer and closer, and it’s time for nextopia’s number one poster boy, the expectity before all others, to get moving: What will Barack Obama do this time? Last ti...
The world of any has made it easier than ever to begin and end relationships, setting all-time-highs for weddings and divorces. But what if, for some reason, you would actually wish for a lasting rel...
The unicorns are getting in the fastlane, indeed. I’m starting to find them anywhere, today I stumbled on them in Santa Ana, California: For 9o dollars a day, you can upgrade your prison cell f...
Patient readers of this blog would testify that, second to the bizarre ways and displays of love in the world of any, my favorite topic is probably the unicornification (think I just invented yet ano...
…the divorce hotel! As readers of this blog know, we marry like never before. Because we can. It’s never been easier, quicker, cheaper. The whole world can be invited to a ceremony that i...
Oh, how I love the Expectations society. This wonderful time and place where we are never, ever done. Where Justin Bieber is already working on his second autobiography, where Leo Plass graduates to ...
Half my head is already there, now the other half will follow. Hope to meet you here again when I’m back from space in May!
It’s exploding in Switzerland and on its way in France, and given the first country’s status in the financial universe, one can only imagine the impact to follow: Currency that can only b...
…N E X T O P I A: The movie premieres on Saturday. Since the prerelease of the tickets a month ago, it has already set a new box office record. On top American box office site Fandango, tickets...
Thanks Mattias for the tip.
These are exciting times, indeed. Encyclopedia is out. And the Federal Reserve is in. On Twitter, that is. I’ve written here before about how economies everywhere are warping – the last f...
We’re finally here: Encyclopedia Britannica just announced that they will discontinue printing “the world’s collected knowledge”. It took 244 years to get here: The world̵...
In the beginning of time, or at least the beginning of this blog, I presented a number of themes that plague our beautiful world of any and are symptomatic of nextopia. One of those themes were happi...
A couple of years from now, we could rid ourselves from racism. By downing a pill. Experiments at the Oxford University medical labs suggest that a formula for relieving high blood pressure, called P...
I’m old enough to remember the agony that came with the introduction of “Caller ID” oneveryone’s phones: “Is she not picking up the phone because she can’t, or bec...
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