collective dreaming
by Keely Adler · updated 3mo ago
collective dreaming
by Keely Adler · updated 3mo ago
ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital
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“The imagination creates the future,” writes Lewis Hyde, professor and author of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World .1
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we are losing our capacity to “conceptualize a tomorrow that [is] radically different from our present.
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‘Engaging with the future … imagining that we are willing to author it together as opposed to having it given to us, is important. And “radical”’ is to say that we should be ambitious and slightly crazy and idiosyncratic about how we think that future could be,’ he told me. ‘It shouldn’t just be a future imagined by politicians, technologists and p
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What we need are visions of the future of technology that are values-driven, but we don’t need just design fictions. We need business model fictions, engineering feasibility study fictions, interop protocol specification fictions, investment return fictions.
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If you have ever found yourself hoping for the future, yet, at times, it feels too big or too impossible; I hope you can carve out some space to dream in your own way and keep building on those dreams. Keep imagining what could be, even if you don’t know how it makes sense yet.
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History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread
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What incremental changes do we make to our internal algorithms to lurch our way to ever-more confident means of thriving in this world? The question is not only what injustices are you fighting against, but what do you in your heart of hearts want to create?
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