Keely Adler

@keelyadler

brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.

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The idea is that it's a system for imagining and executing big projects that actually works. The theory emerges from the intersection of two maxims.

First, there's William Gibson: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed."

Then, there's William Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

Mashing those together, we get

Eliot Peper • Robin Sloan: Binding the Moon

possibility studies

something critical is missing from its voice: a certain sense of connection. At its core, writing is about creating intimacy between writer and reader. It’s a relational act, not a one-sided performance, and its power is in the exchange of ideas. It’s the closest we can get to inhabiting the mind of another human, the closest to escaping our own

Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing

the human premium

while shared stories and singular sources of truth are comforting, they also run the risk of over-simplification and easy-to-ignore exclusion. On the face of it, it feels like the most dystopian of our existential themes — more fear than question. But what if there’s a potential upside to decentralized reality? What if the fragmentation of reality... See more

Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report

narrative change and personalization <> fragmentation

Big ideas don’t show up fully formed, standing in our path. They need to be coaxed unto the open through persistent inquiry and exploration.

composting

So is it helpful to think of a city as a computational kind of—I wouldn’t even say ecology because ecology is a separate metaphor itself—as a computational object or system? Is it a biophysical body? Is it an ecology? Is it a machine? And I think that different policymakers and reformers and other folks who kind of build worlds use different... See more

Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab

When i’m not doing little blue drawings, i’m writing longer bits on Substacky 💙

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in our analog bag

What we need are visions of the future of technology that are values-driven, but we don’t need just design fictions. We need business model fictions, engineering feasibility study fictions, interop protocol specification fictions, investment return fictions.

Matt Webb • Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab, V0.1

multiplayer futures and

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

∆ Alain de Botton

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when everything is important