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What if we could distill the essence of what makes us humans so productive and capable into software, into an algorithm?

Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Early in 2012 we were approached by Alan Heeks—a social entrepreneur, writer, and consultant with a passion for sustainability in the fullest sense.

Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution

First, as we learn more about the processes by which the past manufactures the future, we will use that knowledge to accelerate the growth of digital infrastructure, provide more secure stewardship of collective and personal memory, and reduce the risk of losing our past. Second, we will gain understanding of the complex processes by which Nature o

Abby Smith Rumsey • When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

We create a machine with intelligence and self-awareness and push it out into our imperfect world. Devised along generally rational lines, well disposed to others, such a mind soon finds itself in a hurricane of contradictions. We’ve lived with them and the list wearies us. Millions dying of diseases we know how to cure. Millions living in poverty ... See more

Ian McEwan • Machines Like Me: A Novel

Futures of regenerative scale and shared growth, that combat monoculture through a stronger, broader, and more rooted ecology of adaptation and co-evolution.

Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse

Urban Hydroponic Farms In USA, Vertical Harvest Leads In Social Impact

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A speculative and imaginary future of the world's population of 10 billion people condensed into a small city with most of the world left as a wilderness. The city is built according to the principles of the circular economy, the planet is left for rewilding.Connect emotionally to challenges of our future through a fictional narrative. World buildi... See more

TED • Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future

As this technological trend accelerates, the capital requirements to produce a product will decline precipitously. To run a small robotic factory could be like running your own data center, well within reach of the individual entrepreneur.

Eric Jorgenson • The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future

Homogenization of creativity: As collaborative platforms become more sophisticated, there's a risk that the algorithms designed to enhance synergy could instead lead to a homogenization of ideas. This could dampen true innovation, as the unique perspectives and unconventional ideas are smoothed over in favor of consensus and algorithmic predictabil