Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Applying the notion of urban scale to technology reminds me of the current online trend of people looking for smaller communities, private groups, chat platforms and taking a step back from the well-known social networks.That’s what a neighbourhood is, right? You have a relationship with people within your neighbourhood, which is different from... See more
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
The future depicted here is one where European citizens reclaim agency through introspection. As prevailing narratives of perpetual economic growth and technological fixes falter, more and more individuals believe that changing the world begins with personal transformation.
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agency through introspection at a community level — what does this narrative look like through a post-individual lens, but still leveraging introspection and inside-out thinking
Erik Davis on The Ezra Klein Show recently spoke about “high weirdness,” saying that “‘weirdness’ isn’t just a quality of things that don’t make sense to us; it’s an interpretive framework that helps us better understand the cultures and technologies that will shape our wondrous, wild future.”
Rebecca Johnson • Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’
weird as a value and
Radical Curiosity is the greatest expression of what it means to be an entrepreneur, a futurist, and a leader: willing to raise the bar of our ambitions and expectations. It is an antidote to the apathy that leaves us content with how things are and emboldens us to ask what they might become.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Hilde Van den Bulck, a professor of communication at Drexel University, has studied the version of fandom that inverts its practices and creates a community of denigration. Where fandom tends to derive from a positive emotion (I love this actor; I love that character), anti-fandom draws from just the opposite, and nurtures negative feelings toward... See more
The Atlantic • Johnny Depp and the Dark Side of Celebrity Fandom
“leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.
donellameadows.org • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
What’s a 2022 company built on Envy? The NFT hype of the past 18 months was derived from FOMO (fear of missing out), a close cousin of Envy. People who bought expensive digital assets wanted a place to show those off, turning to places like the virtual world of Decentraland.
Rex Woodbury • The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
Language doesn’t simply describe organizations. It actively produces them. It signals what is valued, what is possible, what is taboo, and what counts as truth.1
“Realities are socially constructed in the conversational interplay between people.” John Shotter