cultural futurism
Categorizing Traits into Taxonomies
Taxonomies play a crucial role in various aspects of human endeavor, offering systematic frameworks for organizing information. At their core, taxonomies ensure that everyone is speaking the same language and using the same terms, fostering clarity and coherence across diverse contexts, from culture
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How is it even possible to maintain a data-driven approach to a world that simply does not make sense?
This is the future of work skill, which no one wants to talk about: Knowing when to look beyond the data, because only human intuition, leaps of logic, and sense-making can come to ‘an’ answer. (Note: Not ‘the’ answer... that’s another trapping of
... See moreMatt Klein • 3_TRENDS_Vol.27: Elliot Aronow: Sarapocial Relationships, Senseless Data + Boy Talk
People who spend a lot of time exploring these subcultures feel like they can see into the future, and for good reason. What happens online often shows up in the headlines weeks, months, or even years later. The internet has become the petri dish of culture — the soil in which new movements and novel conversations find root
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
As Robert Hughes wrote in his 1980 book The Shock of the New, “Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future.”
In a casual aside, Duke sociologist Keiran Healy offered a simple but terrifying observation.*
Culture has changed fundamentally.
It used to be the ballast of our world.
Now it creates chaos.
Culture has changed fundamentally.
It used to be the ballast of our world.
Now it creates chaos.