Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
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Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
In a world where multiplayer mode is the norm, we transcend the traditional boundaries of collaboration, extending the concept far beyond gaming or professional teamwork to reshape the very fabric of society. Maybe then, they’ll start building statues of groups of people (and include our more-than-human co-conspirators, too)
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Quantitative indicators — faulty proxies for qualitative truths — are our primary measure of success, and considerations of life beyond our own have, until now, been largely absent from our day-to-day decision making. What magic might unfold if we just adjust our aperture? And what’s at risk if we don’t?
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
as Dr. Eleni Papadnoikolaki, architect, engineer, and professor of integral design & management at TU Delft points out, “We typically don’t discuss how we can make human lives better. Despite all of the technology around us, we don’t understand how we can improve the quality of human life – only how we can make it more efficient.”
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
“AI will lift the ceiling, leading to more creative outputs made possible by more powerful tools; it will also lower the floor, making it easier for anyone to design and collaborate.”
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
When the gap between the ceiling and flow increases, the way to prevent unrest is by adding more steps between. It’s important to see clearly how to level up to the ceiling, and not only enable people who have the ability to make the leap between the existing steps. More people being able to do something shouldn’t threaten the existence of anyone currently doing the thing.
Just as factory owners of the 19th century dismissed the skills of their workers in favor of profit and productivity, so do the tech leaders of today dismiss human craft in favor of what they believe is “good enough” productivity. It’s telling that in the development of AI, tech companies often use the term “ median human ” to describe the aspirati... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
And more than anything, it feels particularly, uncomfortably, acutely uncertain.
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
The biggest thing we can do is give people a sense of a secure present from which to explore potential abundant futures.
Whether it’s in our cities, our homes, or our social relations, Mattern continues, “Breakdown is our epistemic and experiential reality...What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together.”
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
As Kader Attia writes in Repair: Architecture, Reappropriation, and The Body Repaired, “While in the Western world, the act of repair aimed at simply restoring an original shape, in traditional cultures the repairs aimed further, towards the creation of a new aesthetics. For the West, repair was an illusion of reappropriation of the self, but for n... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
When you start to disentangle production, identity, and the matter of survival from one another, that relationship to doing can become much clearer, especially for those in the spaces of art and craft.