Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
when it comes to belonging, what the Long Tail, A.I. and mass-customization offers on a personal scale, it erases in the macro sense.
ZINE • Will Smith, Cultural Synchrony & A Climate Crisis
We mine, disassemble, reimagine and call on past, present and future. We are a protopian collective advancing toward fully empowered communities, personal selves and others.
Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
These trends work together to keep us stuck in a permanent past because they make it harder to follow different trajectories, to see meaning, to grow as people. It’s a world that rewards predicting over inventing.
stealing • Retrofuturism
It really isn't normal for points and leaderboards and achievements to be attached to everything we do.
Adrian Hon • How Did We Get So Obsessed with Streaks?
“The way we find and then occupy our ultimate place is through an ongoing conversation with the world in which we grow gradually clearer about what that place is. One life you can call your own. A life in this sense is your way of being in the world — your place in the world. To be living that larger story is to be a particular character in a web... See more
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
The result of all these trends is an odd distortion in our perception of what governments can and should do, and a stunted imagination in relation to what it could be.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
A Future In Sync and
I want to be realistic about how the mind works today, which is on multiple streams. And this situation isn’t going to change. We can set up full attention as an ideal, but our digital devices are producing a different way of attending.
Dirt • Dirt: Disordered Attention
The aim of all of these was to shift the culture so that citizens felt a shared responsibility for their city, while expanding their sense of what might be possible after a long period of depressed fatalism.