Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Thanks to these redundancies, the wood wide web is remarkably resilient; only a clear-cut can destroy it.
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
science-fiction prototypes are imagined laboratories based on (scientific) fact, that challenge creators ánd readers to critically reflect on the impact of science and emerging technologies and on the social and emotional responses of the world - including themselves. It offers a great tool to envision possible and hopeful futures, and could be an
... See moreMarjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
Like the Depp-Heard coverage, the forces that Sacasas describes can be deeply cynical and destructive. They’re also almost always exhausting for those of us consuming them.
Charlie Warzel • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
it seems that in the lack of play we face in adulthood (and in modern childhood too) in the west, reality shifting emerges as a way to rescue playfulness.
Rodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🪈✨The Nexialist #0176
Dressed in a purple and turquoise seashell bra and an iridescent green tail, the professional mermaid Carrie Wata swam through a hula hoop that a group of children held underwater in a pool at a birthday party outside of Atlanta, Georgia.
The birthday girl was astonished to see that Wata was a Black mermaid. “You look... See more
instagram.comI can imagine that in the not-so-distant future, retail will be revolutionized by the metaverse. Sometimes I don’t want to buy something on Amazon. I go to a store because I want to pick it up and I want to see it. I want to find out if it fits me. A lot of that will be things we can do in the metaverse. We can create avatars that have the same... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
We realised that the tools we have created to master the world are re-mastering us. But more importantly, it became evident, that the desire for mapping, tweaking and ultimately, controlling, deeply complex systems is hubristic. As Tega Brain writes in her exceptional essay “we must acknowledge how deeply entrenched we are within a computational... See more
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Limits cannot hold when it comes to pleasure. What is too much one day is not enough on another. What is too much for one person is just enough for another. And so on. This trouble with pleasure can be lived with. What seemingly can’t is the feeling that the basic laws that shore up our society are only just functioning; every day we face new
... See moreNew York Times • I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
These moments where one world-system is dying and another is being born are experienced emotionally - as loss, grief, dissonance, confusion, excitement; socially - as contention, struggle, polarisation; and spiritually - as a breakdown in encompassing narrative, meaning and purpose, and a longing for home.