Imminent.sea
From doktorsleepless
Imminent.sea was a group blog started to track outbreaks of the future. Thirteen people contributed to the blog during its four year run, but with only seven members writing at any one time. Each wrote about a different field, which gave the blog a well-rounded and wide-ranging view of future trends.
The blog was paid for by John Reinhardt, who conned ICANN into creating the domain name. Six months after Professor Zero left the blog, the site went static. The remaining members claimed he'd left software and management services locked behind encryptions they couldn't break. The blog ended three years ago.
According to the Nurse, the authors "did some naughty things" and Max Cale was the one who got caught.
Current Imminent-style sites are Darkening and grinding.be[1].
Known members of imminent.sea:
- Max Cale, criminologist (also wrote about intel)
- Gabrielle Pritchett, environmentalist
- Irene Adler, sex futurist, pseudonymous
- Captain Swing, security specialist, pseudonymous
- Professor Zero, human-computer interface expert, pseudonymous (RFID, interfaces, street tech)
Who are the other 8 contributors?
www.imminent.sea was a groupblog -- a magazine-style journalling website created and written by a team of participants -- addressing the state of futurism in this first quarter of the 21st Century. Each writer came from a different discipline or field of interest, creating what was an unusually well-rounded and wide-ranging view of new trends and possible future conditions. In all, thirteen writers contributed to Imminent over its four-year run, with seven people on the groupblog at any one time. Contributors included criminologist Max Cale, environmentalist Gabrielle Pichette and three pseudonymous writers (sex futurist “Irene Adler,” security specialist "Captain Swing" and the human-computer interface expert "Professor Zero").
As suggested above, the site was usually referred to as Imminent. However, the purchase of the .sea domain name, created for the "independent state" of Sealand, was intended to lend the site the name "imminentcy". The site's "about" page says that the idea came from a repeated phrase in Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson's ILLUMINATUS! novels -- "immanentising the Eschaton." The page indicated that this was Professor Zero's idea. It means, loosely, "bringing on the end of the world."
Blog metric sites record that Imminent was one of the one hundred most-read and authoritative websites in the world for much of its run. The site went static six months after Professor Zero ceased writing for it, the remaining six authors claiming that he had disappeared and that he'd left software management and other services locked behind encryptions they couldn't break.
Many similar groupblogs sprang up in its wake, but none had the impact of Imminent. In the last few weeks, it has been noted that Imminent-style sites are emerging from the Grinder culture, emanating particularly from the subculture's home in the American city of Heavenside. These sites include Darkening and grinding.be.
