Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
whereas science fiction “..wants to invoke the grandeur and credibility of science for its own hand-waving hocus-pocus” he was more focused at the time on the tactile and practical implications of emergent technologies. He referred to this as ‘design fiction’, which he described as a practice that “sacrifices some sense of the miraculous,
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we all have needs that need to be tended to. I always wonder, what if care is the work? What if caring for ourselves is the revolution, meaning, what would happen if we divested from dismantling white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and invested our energy in equitizing the care we are able to provide one another?
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
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Traditional prayer is all well and good when you’re wishing for the wellbeing of others, but it’s slightly frowned upon to get God on the case when you simply want a new partner or a Porsche. Most manifesting sessions, I noted, end with our palms pressed together in a prayer-like pose, though it’s “the universe” we’re told to give thanks to.
Stuart McGurk • Making dreams come true: inside the new age world of manifesting
TL:DR — It is impossible for organisations to “demonstrate their impact” if they work in complex environments. Asking them to do so requires them to create a fantasy version of the story of their work. This corruption of data makes doing genuine change work harder because it is difficult to learn and adapt from corrupted data.
Rodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🛗✨The Nexialist #0133
before the advent of electronic communication, the regulation of information was partly a function of our being bodies in place. Immediacy was structured by place rather than time.
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
What makes us messy also makes us magical. Social experiments are every bit as important as scientific ones, even if they make for a bumpy ride.
Packy McCormick • Social vs. Science Experiments
If time is water then small actions reverberate - sometimes to distances I cannot see, maybe to a generation that I won’t meet.
