Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Those of us who recognize that we’ve been here before are the ones who have to call attention to where we are heading.
Digital feedback loops are helping us see that our media, technology, culture, economy, and natural world all have at least as much of a cyclical character as a linear one.
It’s not a matter of banishing linearity and progress
... See moreWhen the mind searches for the future, it sees the past.
Sohail Inayatullah • Foresight in Challenging Environments * Journal of Futures Studies
While early tech leaders hoped to liberate humanity from hierarchical governments, their products instead multiplied the available channels for exerting control.
Kernel | take back the future! the progressive case for techno-optimism
In recent years, neuroimaging has provided evidence to suggest that imagining the future relies on much of the same neural machinery as remembering the past. One hypothesis that such findings motivate is that memories must be reactivated in order to extract the information needed to “flesh out” detailed simulations. Indeed, if simulations involve... See more
Daniel L. Schacter • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
well-being and mindfulness 2.0
fragmented self-talk - referring to yourself as You
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
We need to fall back in
Erin Remblance • We need to fall back in love with Earth
well-being and
I need a greater facility with multispecies languages. I am engaging in a conversation across cultural divides with other multitudes, whose languages and modes of perception we have only just begun to explore.
David Waltner-Toews • On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size. Intermolecular forces flex beneath the feet of water striders on a pond, capillary forces shoot water impossibly upward through a plant’s thin roots, and electrostatic forces can ensnare any oppositely charged flecks that lie in... See more