alexi gunner
@idlegaze
cultural strategist
writes idle gaze; a newsletter exploring the undercurrents of the modern zeitgeist.
founder @ idle gaze consulting
cultural futurist @ RADAR
alexi gunner
idlegaze.substack.com
Mayor launches independent new Nightlife Taskforce to help support capital’s life at night
london.gov.uk
People are going to start aggressively revoking access to their attention.
Ping minimalism is coming.
Ping minimalism is coming.
Anu Atluru on Substack
what is prompt engineering besides spellcasting? ... Given that “sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” (Clarke’s third law), the users of sufficiently advanced LLMs will be indistinguishable from wizards. The quality of mind that will allow one to excel as a wizard will have little to do with intelligence or knowledge.
... See morePeople 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
The possibilities for use cases of a living foresight model become endless with structured analytics. Imagine anticipating emergent genres for film producers, preemptively knowing which rights to secure, or identifying talent and untapped audiences. In the realm of industrial design, a living foresight model serves as a catalyst
for innovation,
... See morereadwise.io • Culture_Mapping_Strategic_Primer
Sometimes I think of it in this way: if the words already exist to describe something new then maybe it is not truly that novel after all.
