Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
We are currently living in a time when the lines between fantasy and reality are blurring and virtual worlds are creating room for new rules of self-expression and identity. Success in virtual realms like the metaverse won’t be driven by those who adhere to traditional norms but by those willing to establish entirely new ones.
Rebecca Johnson • Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’
Identity and
What they don’t see, and what we continue to experience, is that while collaborating can be hard, it’s also a more rewarding, fruitful, and uplifting experience than doing things on our own. Yes, it’s true that groups of people collaborating will run into some well-known problems, but it’s also true that we see ways to make that experience better,
... See moreYancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
“…we spent over twenty years investing heavily in engineering as a driver of competitive advantage, which ultimately metastasized into where we are today: A world built by engineers.”
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
A simplistic explanation of Hong Kong’s anorexia surge—along with koro and hysterical fugue—would be that mental illness is always and everywhere a case of social contagion. That’s wrong. What we call worry and sadness are universal human traits, and many psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, show up around the world. Watters’s most
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Just as factory owners of the 19th century dismissed the skills of their workers in favor of profit and productivity, so do the tech leaders of today dismiss human craft in favor of what they believe is “good enough” productivity. It’s telling that in the development of AI, tech companies often use the term “ median human ” to describe the... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
As such, the idea of Nusantara, I think, represents an interesting starting basis for constructing new kinds of what is beginning to be called planetarity.
Venkatesh Rao • Nusantaraphilia
Tinder is the canonical example of Lust. The company built its name on looks-based dating, with rapid swiping based only on a photo.
Rex Woodbury • The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
There is currently a quite monocultural digital life, especially compared to the digital world that we came up with in the late nineties and early two-thousands, when individuals created the web. We had our websites and our hodgepodge content management systems, which we’d built for ourselves. Because of that, the web felt more like a city with... See more
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
as someone who studies culture for a living, I can feel the violence of so easily dismissing people and places. The way it denies their humanity and creates false binaries. I know there is a lot of really important stuff to be vigilant against right now, but the best activists and leaders and researchers I know see issues as good and bad, but
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