Nathan Acks
Welcome to a very short website all about me!
When I'm not working, I take pictures and write about the future. You can also find my occassionally updated journal here, as well as an automatic log of potentially interesting miscellany.
Delphi Foresight Strategy
A project to understand the future as part of, rather than apart from, the history of humanity, life, and ultimately the Earth itself. A place to begin thinking about thousand-year projects.
Digital Orrery
Over the years I’ve taken a lot of photos using everything from disposable point-and-shoot film cameras to high-end digital cameras. These days I focus mostly on smartphone photography, which is really coming into its own. Digital Orrery is where you’ll find my most recent work.
Journal
Shorter thoughts, random speculation, and other tidbits that don’t fit into the mission of Delphi Foresight Strategy can be found here. Updated approximately whenever I feel like it.
Lifelog
I use IFTTT to record interesting things that I’ve found around the web, books I’ve read, and other bits of my digital exhaust. Automatically updated.
About Me
I've lived in the Western United States for most of my life, a place I sometimes like to call "the ancient shore of Laurentia", though there's precious little water here now. I studied physics as an undergrad and then applied mathematics (specifically operations research) in grad school, but ultimately chose to pursue political activism after my experiences volunteering as a photographer with the People's Law Project (now the National Lawyers Guild of Colorado) during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
When not working to change the world, I spend my time thinking about the future and practicing my photogtaphy.
Work History
| 2009—Present | The Public Interest Network |
| 2007—2009 | Tattered Cover |
| 2005—2007 | University of Colorado Denver |
| 2003—2004 | ImageNative Worlds, Inc. |
Education
| 2005—2009 | Master of Science in Applied Mathematics |
| 1999—2003 | Bachelor of Science in Physics |