Futures Thinking
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Internet outage world map
Did you know? At the beginning of 2022, the Philippines’ internet penetration rate was 68.0 percent of the total population. So if you just look up from your smartphone when you go out, you’ll see how most people you come across are holding one or using one. How dependent are you on the internet these days? I… Read more
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Letter no. 29
Dear reader from the future, I can finally breathe open air again without feeling guilty about removing my mask in public spaces with fewer people to almost none. Thanks to the President’s executive order, my lungs feel happier now that I can enjoy the smell of dew and green grass at the University. COVID-19 even… Read more
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Making things happen
If you want things to happen, your desire to do it helps set the environment that allows you to do the very thing you want. And even how you want it done! It’s incredible how your mind can imagine things and make them like a map of your future. So if you think about hope,… Read more
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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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