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Unlike forecasting, foresight does not aim to create accurate predictions of future events, but instead draws on the present to shape what might come next. It is frequently used to “mitigate technological surprise” and “discover patterns of emergence for concepts that will likely emerge in several years”. Careful Industries . What about foresight lying in the continuous co-existence and interconnection of multiple realities for different communities?
Forward: Futurism still - Belonging, Repair, Care report (Possible, Plausible and Just Futures for Civil Society): three possible futures.
Jane McGonigal [Reality is broken - Gamification] takes on Imaginable futurism.Signals: NYV gives robots to its isolated elderly residents. (and Nigeria makes its elderly VR dance). Past Tamagotchi, episodes on robots companions for seniors (LDR #19 ) and teens (BM S05E03).
Can software be a patent 'inventor'?
Games: UK Parliament want to control loot boxes.Silicon Valley: not listening to its own privacy concerns.
Bacteria playing tic-tac-toe. Cheap chips becoming blockers for production: will we finally commit to an electronics circular economy? Some are doing - because of these supply tensions.Consumed: The Dead Don't Die. LDR,S03E01,02. Both great.
Read Radicalized from C. Doctorow, novellae #1 and #3 are amazing. “Unauthorized bread”, about software lock in, awfully similar to Bob the dishwasher hacking.
Play: George Kaplan (details below), by Frédéric Sonntag.
Produced: Playing with resumes classification and tagging.
Backlog: Watch Social Dilemna. The Pentaverate. Crimes of the Future.
"George Kaplan" is a play in three parts with multiple narrative links, a play on the political stakes of myths and stories, on the role of coffee (and beer) in the smooth running of meetings, on the influence of 'Hollywood in our portrayal of global geopolitics, about Alfred Hitchcock's participation in an international conspiracy, about information warfare and crowd manipulation, about a hen that could change the face of the world.