Futures Thinking
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Can you imagine a world where you can no longer trust visual information?
I really find AI tools empowering, enabling me to perform tasks and produce better results than I would on my own. As Ethan Mollick puts it: Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience The Cybernetic Teammate But like in this TED Talk, Mark Hoffman compares artificial intelligence Read more
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Letter no. 47
Dear reader from the future, Sometimes, I get worried about my lack of knowledge of how to make things grow like in subsistence farming. What if another global collapse keeps goods from being transported to where they should go, and I only know how to get food from the supermarket, and the shelves will run Read more
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Can you imagine a future of eternal winter like in Snowpiercer?
I first heard about solar geoengineering from one of the futures scenarios at the Urgent Optimists, where we were tasked to imagine waking up to a future where every day is winter after some governing body implemented a solar geoengineering program. Then, I read about it from The Ministry of the Future (a climate fiction Read more
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Letter no. 46
Dear reader from the future, Writing this as a 30-year-old (oh how I really like being 30), I realized how stubborn and even prideful I was in my 20s. I thought that ideals were enough to change the part of my world, graduating from one reality (academe) to another (workplace). I was too hot to Read more
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Living in a self-focused culture
Mainstream media would keep telling you about putting yourself first above all else which often leads to thinking only about immediate gratification within one’s lifetime without thinking about the next generation. This unsettling reality of short-termism got me thinking about how this generation has become lovers of self, which resonates with: For people will be Read more
jessa 