Category: Futures
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begin to remake who we are and how we live
On the one hand, [Buckminster] Fuller’s philosophy of change seems too hopeful now; it’s fair to wonder whether we have time for it.
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Malmö music futures: Waves of the Blue Sea
Three stories from me this time, based on three scenarios produced by a gloriously eccentric batch of participants in four full days of collaborative foresight exploration of “the futures of sound and song”.
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mister gotcha trend-lord douchebag
Trends Discourse is a genre unto itself, I have discovered lately, as I try to sustain some sort of engagement with what is arguably an adjacent profession to my own. But the self-satisfaction of its leading pundits, and the lack of reflexivity thereby implied, can make for some serious eyeroll material. Exhibit A is this…
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in Copenhagen, “The Future” is dead
As not-very-subtly hinted yesterday, I have another talk in the calendar, this one at the much better-known (and rather less polar-proximal) location of Copenhagen, taking place from 3pm CET on Thursday 25th April. It’s always nice to be asked to give a talk, but it’s extra special when they make and print a poster for…
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Västerbotten bound
I said I had announcements, and I wasn’t kidding. I’m doing a bunch of public stuff this month, which is nice—not least because it gets me out of the house. The first of these is on the afternoon of Tuesday 16th April, and this talk will take me further north than I have ever been…