Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
What if the next generation of user-generated content—for the next generation of the internet—is user-owned content? UOC, perhaps 🤔 The crowd not only creates the content, but owns it, sharing in economic upside all orchestrated by blockchain. In this future, a platform to power UOC would be massive.
Rex Woodbury • Mad Realities and the Rise of User-Owned Content
Our present-day solutions are born from the present-day problems of our present-day systems that are fueled by our present-day perspectives, and foresight/futures thinking should be offering us an entirely different way of perceiving the world that supersedes our limited assumptions, our system-defined problems and our context-limited solutions.
TFSX • The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
imagination is an extremely powerful force for change and humanity can build bridges and empower us to create worlds that are more in line with our values. Imagining allows us not just to see a different future but to explore the impacts of it happening
Medium • Rewilding the Imagination
Squads are both a product of—and a response to—contemporary social atomization.
otherinter.net • Squad Wealth
I like the term generalist, it’s one of the best descriptions of my career(s) and also a good representation of something I see as vital: being able to understand different domains and translate between them.
Patrick Tanguay • Generalists
the shared ability, cultivated from an early age, to explore the possible future is a vital muscle for any democracy—and one that needs to be exercised early and often.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The notion of what community is, it’s starting to expand. Certainly, physical community does matter, but the lines are getting increasingly blurry depending on where people spend their time and where they socialize. For that generation, an increasingly large percentage of their social time is spent online, which is not necessarily bound by physical... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
People building social experiments have no such luxury. While technology plays an important role – blockchains, token standards, zero-knowledge proofs, and the like are all major technical innovations – people are a necessary component of the product itself. And people are messy, flighty, scammy, fickle, excitable, and all of the other wonderful... See more