About

Justin Pickard is an MA student, futurist, infovore, and aspiring SF writer.

• BA (Hons.) in International Relations & Anthropology from Sussex (2005-2008)
• “GM” on the Institute for the Future‘s massively-multiplayer forecasting game, Superstruct (Sept 2008)
• editorial intern at Wired UK (Jan 2009)
• studying for an MA in Digital Media at Goldsmiths, University of London (2009-2010)

Current interests:

• the digital & the material – 3D printing, digital distribution, AR & VR, screen cultures, locative media, cartography, telepresence and notions of the digital or sentient city
• representations of the future – in science fiction, film, design fictions, concept art and public discourse
• remediation – the dynamic by which new media pays homage to, rivals, and refashions earlier media forms
• information politics – piracy, post-scarcity economics, intellectual property, open source, peer production and ethonomics

Long-term game plan:

• house made from reclaimed shipping containers
• sprawling magazine articles about science, technology, politics and culture – and the places they come into contact
• offbeat sci-fi stories, compiled in thin paperbacks with strange covers
• general gallivanting

He can also be found on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious and LinkedIn.