Category: Futures

  • in Copenhagen, “The Future” is dead

    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…

  • Västerbotten bound

    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…

  • bear discovers fire: on the erroneous over-estimation of generative systems

    bear discovers fire: on the erroneous over-estimation of generative systems

    Oh god, OK—yes, I’m sorry, more “#AI” discourse, and believe me, no one finds my repeated returns to the topic more wearing and ironic than I do, but we are living in A Moment, and I have been wrestling with that moment on the personal and artistic front, but I have also been looking at…

  • divestor storytime: reading “Village People”at Media Evolution

    divestor storytime: reading “Village People”at Media Evolution

    I keep promising an in-depth post about the Media Evolution collaborative foresight cycle I was involved with late last year. Apologies, but this is not that in-depth post—partly because I’m currently very busy working on the next collaborative foresight cycle (of which ME do three each year), among various other client-facing things. But this post…

  • preludes to enantiodromia

    I’m seeing enough of them, now, and discussing the concept with enough people online and off, that I think it’s time to start clipping examples of people pointing at harbingers of enantiodromia—the sudden inversion of a paradigm into its complete opposite. Here’s yer man Dougald Hine—a far better-known and more widely read Brit-who-fled-to-Sweden—in a longer…