Futurism
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Futurism
It’s crazy to me that every optimist talks about “going to the stars” as the A+ perfect future scenario
The universe supports qualia, experience, the only natural resource that inherently matters. We can shape that resource how we wish. What matters is what it’s like to be alive
How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure
youtube.comTo be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
Saffron Huangletterstoayoungtechnologist.comtomorrowing — an active mindset of anticipating challenges and opportunities rather than passively waiting for the future.
Sarah DaVanzo • Gen Z’s Curiosity Fingerprint for the Future
Try as we might to utilize reason and logic for our arguments, the human race is first and foremost an emotional species. On a base level, I might even say that the most important aspect of foresight is the ability to create emotional connections between people and their possible, probable, preferred, and preventable futures.
Seth T. Harrell • Affective Foresight
At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagining possibilities of what the future could be. And if there was ever a time we needed such imagination, it is today.
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
