The Future
Looking, exploring, designing what is to be - perspectives into what's ahead of us
The Future
Fascinating Future
“Civium is a way of looking at cities, and specifically what a post-city world might look like.
It imagines an alliance between technology and the countryside replacing the city as the focus of creativity and wealth-creation.
It is the idea that there is no longer much point living in the middle of a large conurbation when you can n
... See moreIn the age of infinite information, the competitive advantage isn't knowledge—it's wisdom. Not those who know the most, but those who can discern what matters. Not processing power, but purpose. Those who can extract meaning, connect dots across domains, and make wise decisions despite uncertainty are more likely to thrive.
Michael Simmons • Information Singularity: What Happens When Even AI Experts Can't Keep Up With AI
Why are we futuring to find solutions to the problems created by extrapolative, exponential, and extractive systems, when we should be futuring to imagine emerging novelty and construct transformative realities that would allow us to elevate our human, planetary, and universal experience above and beyond those systems?
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
"empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them"
Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society
It’s happening in the background, away from performance, away from the algorithm. Rather than worrying about audience, these are intimacy tools.The most powerful cultural spaces right now are ones you can’t search for. You’re invited in, or you miss it.We spent a decade learning how to go viral. Now, the clever ones are learning how to go quiet.
There's a new cultural infrastructure. An invisible layer powering… | James Kirkham | 49 comments
This is the new cultural infrastructure. It is lo-fi, discreet, decentralised.
Intelligence today means staying open. It means unlearning old frameworks, following genuine curiosity, and letting go of the need to appear sophisticated. It means practicing sense-making in public, without fear of being mid-thought.
Uncredentialed Futures
The path to becoming future proof comes down to shifting from consumer to creator. When you solve your own problems, publish the solutions in the global town square, and help an audience of like-minded people, even if that audience is a "tiny" 1,000 true fans, I find it hard to believe you won't find the power in you to create a good life. At that ... See more
Purpose & Profit – A Guide To Discovering Your Life's Work
“Moving away from an Anthropocene into a Symbiocene requires a biological, psychological, and sacred perspective in our foresight & futures thinking work.... See more
Why? When we leave out the interconnected, vibrant, and emergent qualities of life in favor of only serving dominant systems of productivity, efficiency, and hyper-monetization, we fail to re
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
Armed with a traditional film background, we faced a dilemma: shed the principles of our training to feed the algorithm's insatiable appetite for content, or hold fast to our ideals and risk missing out. Multiply output for likes and follows, or cultivate vision for something that seemed very distant, unpredictable, and way harder to reach. It was ... See more