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Age of Entanglement
The rush evoked by fractal imagery, the algorithms used for habitat selection, metastasize into art. Thrills that once had to be earned in increments of fitness can now be had from pointless introspection. Aesthetics rise unbidden from a trillion dopamine receptors, and the system moves beyond modeling the organism. It begins to model the very proc
... See morePeter Watts • Blindsight (Firefall Book 1)
These are just a few of the ways that the pure chemistry of ideas mutates into new compounds through exposure to the oxygen of real societies, patterns which mean that the originators of ideas can rarely know what will happen to them. Nor is there any easy way to situate imaginative ideas in time—to know whether they might bear fruit in a decade, a
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Now is perhaps the time to examine this transition systemically. To prototype the institutions, instruments, and intelligence infrastructures that can thrive in this new landscape. To design not just for simplistic returns, but for capacity to navigate the systemic complexity unfolding.
How we think about learning, cohesion, time, youth, aliveness, nature, and value is being upended. The legacy frameworks that have defined these core human conditions are giving way to new, emerging narratives.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
