The Possibility Engine
You actually can contemplate creating a new (cognitive) foundation for the world, something that vast numbers of very different people will actually want to count on. It’s been done before. It doesn’t require anything literally impossible. It’s not wilder than stuff respectable people discuss freely like “building AGI” or “creating a new and better... See more
We can imagine almost anything, but only a tiny fraction of what we imagine can become real. There is no easy way to verify how much change is possible. Hard-nosed realists may be right much of the time, but then, periodically, they become dramatically wrong. Wild-eyed visionaries may be wrong much of the time, but occasionally they become dramatic
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Visions of dystopia are nothing if not plausible and realistic. We must also make just and liberated futures irresistible.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
In the end, lack of imagination is only a tiny part of why we don’t see more change; the more significant aspect is the friction between the status quo and those alternative futures. We need to understand those sources of friction in great detail and be articulate and convincing when discussing why they are causing friction and why they can be diff... See more
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
Every weary realist impulse inside us resists it. But possibilities are “what if” questions, the nourishment we get from being jolted awake by seeing the possible world made new, in tiny gestures or in big ones. By placing the otherwise in front of us, posing altered realities in concrete objects, Greene observed, works of art can “evoke an intimat
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