Futures Thinking
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Are you ready when the Internet disappears?
This scenario is based from our monthly scenario club at the Urgent Optimists. Urgent Optimists is a community that brings “together people who want to feel authentically hopeful about the future, and who are working to create positive transformation in society and in their own lives.” I’m a member of Urgent Optimists, and I think Read more
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Is this the future of dying?
Can you take your life at your bidding if it means that you don’t have to suffer through your terminal illness? Here’s a story about how Gabriella Walsh, who had bone cancer, made the most of her life and arranged the day of her death. What could be the moral implications of this kind of Read more
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Are you ready for a world in which facial recognition technologies allow regular people to face search you on the internet?
This scenario is based from our monthly scenario club at the Urgent Optimists. Urgent Optimists is a community that brings “together people who want to feel authentically hopeful about the future, and who are working to create positive transformation in society and in their own lives.” I’m a member of Urgent Optimists, and I think Read more
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Exploring MidJourney and the future of AI art
In one of the webinars that the Urgent Optimists regularly offers, I learned about MidJourney. And the moment I joined the open beta community run on Discord, I became so into it that I didn’t want to leave. What’s it about? MidJourney is an AI that generates art from your text prompts, a text-to-image tool. Read more
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Meet your future guide
Can you imagine what your day looks like tomorrow when you get out of bed? How about imagining yourself ten years into the future? Can you imagine yourself as far as 2050? If you’re wondering what 2050 might look like, take this interactive “digital museum” from the future. Open your mind to a world of Read more
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