Multiplayer Futures
As Rebecca Solnit wrote for The Guardian, “Our greatest power lies in our roles as citizens, not consumers, when we can band together to collectively change how our world works.
Em Howell • Multiplayer Futures
If the future really does belong to those who think about it (and we believe it does), then we believe that should include more, and we mean way more of the population than it does today. We’re not talking about individual daydreaming or even about creating new pathways into the same old industries. Rather, we’re talking about engaging the collecti... See more
Keely Adler • Multiplayer Futures
Who thinks about the future today?
Brands after their own self-interests. Agencies after their own self-interests (or, if we’re lucky, after their clients’ interests). Employees in trendy offices surrounded by like-minded co-workers and like-minded networks, courting cookie-cutter clients with cookie-cutter visions of tomorrow.
At least, that’s who... See more
Brands after their own self-interests. Agencies after their own self-interests (or, if we’re lucky, after their clients’ interests). Employees in trendy offices surrounded by like-minded co-workers and like-minded networks, courting cookie-cutter clients with cookie-cutter visions of tomorrow.
At least, that’s who... See more
Fancy • Multiplayer Futures
We don’t just report research, we bring to life visions of better worlds in better futures to motivate the many and activate change. Because when you think of better futures like memes (by which we mean, the academic, Richard Dawkins, OG definition of memes), you can start to see the potential in their propagation. You open up, in Kiana’s words onc... See more
Em Howell • Multiplayer Futures
orchestrated by tokens, aligns the interests of the individual with the collective — and, importantly, vice versa. It’s a positive-sum environment, where cooperation is in all of our best interests; where scale beyond the confines of a typical company is healthy and invigorating, not bloated and problematic. In these environments, co-ownership is t... See more
Matt Weatherall • Multiplayer Futures
we wanted to break the legacy paradigm where research too often sits static; we wanted to hold ourselves accountable to turning passive reporting into forward motion that could result in products, services, and concepts that would bring us closer to the better future we’d discovered
Fancy • Multiplayer Futures
Collective ownership unlocks what was previously behind closed doors; the second stage of emergence: communities of practice.
“When local efforts connect as networks, then commit to work as a community of practice, a new system emerges at a greater level of scale.” — The Berkana Institute
“By making (ownership) a multiplayer game, it becomes a t... See more
Keely Adler • Multiplayer Futures
As public theologian and faith leader Rev. Jennifer Bailey has said, “change happens at the speed of relationships.” And yet, today, so much of our infrastructure is built — purposefully or not — to slow relationships down, making single-player mode the default and dooming us to the status quo.
Fancy • Multiplayer Futures
It’s collective change that starts with collective vision.
Fancy • Multiplayer Futures
“Maybe we need to go underground — working in networked, symbiotic companionships, like mycelial arrangements, to generate infinite micro-revolutions.” — Anab Jain