Keely Adler

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.

By addressing concerns rooted in our felt localities and establishing social models for others, we can catalyze truly global public goods.

We appreciate literary prowess, but engaging the reader matters more — we seem to want more than just spectacle from good writing. As readers, we need to feel like the writer is paying attention to us, trying to connect. ChatGPT cannot build a real connection with its reader — it can only imitate one.

Also above and beyond other “candidates” – and in line with futures studies - metamodernism promotes an anticipatory and proactive thinking about alternative futures (Baciu et al., 2015), and is interested to convey a newly born optimist metanarrative that would unite and reconstruct the broken identity pieces after postmodernism (Abramson, 2015b).

But orientation? Contextual discernment? Strategic ethics, systems thinking, cultural perception? Still (for now) fundamentally human terrain. This is where the new strategic edge emerges: Not in what you know, but in how you design, direct and distill your hybrid intelligence stack.

Instead of asking How long will it last? the policy question becomes How many futures can it sustain?

those who obsessively travel will tell you people are overwhelmingly good, while those who obsessively scroll will tell you people are overwhelmingly bad.