Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The word “radical” was borrowed in the fourteenth century from the Latin radicalis, meaning “root.” Radical questioning is necessary because it is the roots, the essential foundations, of today’s problems that need to be excavated and interrogated. The more fundamental the question, the more fertile the ground for imagining.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
At this moment, we are unequivocally confronted with the need to reimagine our humanity and what it means to be living organisms sharing the planet with many other organisms, some living, some not. This is nothing new.
However, at this moment, we can plainly see how black, brown, queer and disabled bodies are devalued; how people who threaten the
... See moreStephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
In August of 2021, Statista reported that in an “internet minute,” Facebook users shared over 240,000 photos, Twitter users posted 575,000 tweets, and Discord users sent 668,000 messages. In the same internet minute, TikTok users watched 167M videos, Facebook Live videos received 44M views, and users conducted 5.7M Google searches.
Alexandra Sukin • Roadmap: Curating the internet
The advent of streaming, and cord-cutting, allowed viewers a more intentional relationship to TV, at least in theory. When Netflix and other platforms began dumping entire seasons of shows at once, binging became a byword for paying deep attention, as viewers gave themselves over to intricate drama or quirky comedy. But now we’re learning to stream... See more
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
What I've come to understand is that “negative” states aren't the enemy. As awful as they feel, they're not something to be eliminated or optimized away. They're signals. Navigation points. When I'm in a heightened state of anxiety, it's not a character defect — it's a compass. And if anxiety can be a compass, maybe it’s time to completely reframe
... See moreSara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
When everything is in flux, we need people who can move across worlds. In times of upheaval, grief, anxiety and rising discomfort, polymaths—those who wear many hats, blend skills, and cross disciplines—are essential.They thrive in the spaces between, finding connections others might miss.When things shift beneath us, it’s these transitional... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
A decade ago, Greed was signified by the rise of investing apps. Coinbase let us buy and sell crypto, minting thousands of Bitcoin millionaires. Fast forward to 2021, and 48% of Americans invested in crypto, with 63% saying the primary reason for doing so was to make money.
Rex Woodbury • The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
Disabled people are consistently written out of the future, philosopher Kafer (2013) notes, and perceived as having no future. To craft futures in which both realist and nonrealist disabilities are integral to liberatory worlds, then, is to reach for adjacent possibilities otherwise ignored and dismissed. It is to relocate possibility within the
... See morePerry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
All my experience tells me that such a level of fatalism isn’t realistic; we can, up to a point, design and choose the society we wish to live in. Besides, there have been few moments in history when we have needed creativity more—to work out how to get to net zero carbon emissions and avert climate change; how to cope with ageing populations; how
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