“The future is a better key to the present than the past,” Ballard wrote.
Not a lot this week, disconnected a bit =)
Trends: Mining new sands in Greenland, thanks to global warming. New business model for Shutterstock: paying users whose images were used for AI training. AXA future risks for 2022. More office to apartment transitions.
Tech/SF: AI as a writer’s muse - even names like Ken Liu use it - or the other way around. Living with soft dragons.
Random: Collective thinking and futures canvases. Couple of futures-patented wearables. Bionics and prosthetics. Highest paid dead celebrities. A cognitive immune system.
!Social networks: Client-side encrypted pastebin. Anti-social text platforms.
