Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
now that AI has given us the gift of semantic search—which surfaces information based on meaning and vibes rather than keywords—we no longer need to rely on rote categorization.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Future of Retail and
Because of the nature of the ‘wicked’ challenges now faced by societies worldwide—and almost all urban challenges are wicked—there is no state of perfect understanding.
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
One Minute Park
oneminutepark.tv
Challenging the past as a viable template for the future is an important part of envisioning and enacting new futures. The parts of the brain responsible for creative imagination are directly linked to those that store and manage memories. Our ideas about the future are essentially tapestries remixed from of our memories of former days.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
The texture of our experience is flattened out as a result.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
While similar to Disney’s “transnarrative” strategy, in which characters are interspersed throughout various media, most projects don’t cohere around a central figure or storyline. Instead, the emphasis is placed on the world itself.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
We carry our backstories with us, and many who leave are eventually summoned home, whether by familial duties or an abiding affection for the complicated place that shaped them.