Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Participants said the workshop helped them notice they were not considering certain groups in their future thinking. Socially oppressed groups are left outside their typical future imagination. This was one of the aspects that participants considered central learning, the necessity to think about others.
Another learning that participants identified... See more
Another learning that participants identified... See more
On The Social Complexity of Neurotechnology: Designing A Futures Workshop For The Exploration Of More Just Alternative Futures * Journal of Futures Studies
Futures thinking and
As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the
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Longevity habits
recent research offers a reassuring perspective—that AI-delivered therapeutic interventions have reached a level of sophistication such that they’re indistinguishable from human-written therapeutic responses.
Marc Zao-Sanders • How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025
Spines Targets 8,000 AI-Generated Books by 2025, Sparking Debate In The Publishing Industry
timesnownews.com
publishing and AI
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023
Exploration of the top 10 emerging technologies of 2023 and their potential impact on society, covering areas such as healthcare, energy, and sustainability.
www3.weforum.orgFutures thinking and Imagination
WEF- emerging technologies
the imagination is a neurological reality, that it is lodged in specific parts of the brain, that it consists of an identifiable set of components and processes, that these components and processes have adaptive functions, and that in fulfilling its functions imagination has been a major causal factor in making Homo sapiens the dominant species on... See more
Joseph Carroll • Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts
Physically speaking, humans are a middling mammal with an odd hair pattern, a badly evolved back, and a mouth that no longer fits all our adult teeth. All of which is why we really like brains.