MachineMachine /stream - tagged with future https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Survival of the Richest | by Douglas Rushkoff | OneZero]]> https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1 ]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:53 -0800 https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1 <![CDATA[How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history | The Economist]]> https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history

Among the more sombre gifts brought by the Enlightenment was the realisation that humans might one day become extinct.

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Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:51:25 -0700 https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history
<![CDATA[Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Is Worried About Crypto's Future | Time]]> https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/

In a few minutes, electronic music will start pulsing, stuffed animals will be flung through the air, women will emerge spinning Technicolor hula hoops, and a mechanical bull will rev into action, bucking off one delighted rider after another.

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Mon, 21 Mar 2022 04:51:23 -0700 https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/
<![CDATA[The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper]]> https://theintercept.com/2021/07/05/barrett-moore-brad-thor-doomsday-prepper-the-haven/

Barrett Moore had ordered 2 million N95 masks, held enough freeze-dried food to feed families hiding from global Armageddon for decades, owned a small arsenal of guns, and fortified a pole barn in which to wait out the collapse of civilization.

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Thu, 08 Jul 2021 23:55:34 -0700 https://theintercept.com/2021/07/05/barrett-moore-brad-thor-doomsday-prepper-the-haven/
<![CDATA[The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. — ProPublica]]> https://www.propublica.org/article/the-climate-crisis-is-worse-than-you-can-imagine-heres-what-happens-if-you-try?token=ZU9bIdak9Yj9jHy1Dq0FAhifc0-AgZUO ]]> Fri, 12 Feb 2021 23:55:28 -0800 https://www.propublica.org/article/the-climate-crisis-is-worse-than-you-can-imagine-heres-what-happens-if-you-try?token=ZU9bIdak9Yj9jHy1Dq0FAhifc0-AgZUO <![CDATA[Defuturing the Image of the Future]]> https://walkerart.org/magazine/defuturing-the-image-of-the-future

On the occasion of the opening of Designs for Different Futures at the Walker Art Center, we will be publishing a number of texts from the exhibition catalogue (Yale University Press, December 2019).

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Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:19:45 -0800 https://walkerart.org/magazine/defuturing-the-image-of-the-future
<![CDATA[How to Predict Culture in 2050?]]> https://app.milanote.com/1Kxgc81Lmfvj68

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Sun, 29 Nov 2020 06:36:22 -0800 https://app.milanote.com/1Kxgc81Lmfvj68
<![CDATA[An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried]]> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwvgeq/an-incomplete-timeline-of-what-we-tried

Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

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Thu, 22 Oct 2020 06:13:06 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwvgeq/an-incomplete-timeline-of-what-we-tried
<![CDATA[How Humanity Came To Contemplate Its Possible Extinction: A Timeline | The MIT Press Reader]]> https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-humanity-discovered-its-possible-extinction-timeline/

It is only in the last couple of centuries that we have begun to grasp that our existence might one day cease to exist forever. Today's attempts to measure and mitigate existential threats are the continuation of a project initiated over two centuries ago.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:13:48 -0700 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-humanity-discovered-its-possible-extinction-timeline/
<![CDATA[Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays]]> https://aeon.co/essays/revolutionary-archaeology-reveals-the-deepest-possible-anthropocene

Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere, even the Earth’s surface – all were irreversibly transformed.

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Fri, 02 Oct 2020 06:13:20 -0700 https://aeon.co/essays/revolutionary-archaeology-reveals-the-deepest-possible-anthropocene
<![CDATA[‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists – Voice of Action]]> https://voiceofaction.org/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists/

Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points that regulate the state of the planet have been activated.

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Tue, 30 Jun 2020 19:13:15 -0700 https://voiceofaction.org/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists/
<![CDATA[Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media]]> http://www.indigenousaction.org/rethinking-the-apocalypse-an-indigenous-anti-futurist-manifesto/

Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history of utopian fantasies and apocalyptic idealization.

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Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:13:38 -0700 http://www.indigenousaction.org/rethinking-the-apocalypse-an-indigenous-anti-futurist-manifesto/
<![CDATA[Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media]]> http://www.indigenousaction.org/rethinking-the-apocalypse-an-indigenous-anti-futurist-manifesto/

Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history of utopian fantasies and apocalyptic idealization.

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Wed, 03 Jun 2020 11:50:18 -0700 http://www.indigenousaction.org/rethinking-the-apocalypse-an-indigenous-anti-futurist-manifesto/
<![CDATA[How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics - MIT Technology Review]]> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615190/how-big-tech-hijacked-its-sharpest-funniest-critics/

Bruce Sterling wasn’t originally meant to be part of the discussion. It was March 13, 2010, in Austin, Texas, and a small group of designers were on stage at the South by Southwest interactive festival, talking about an emerging discipline they called “design fiction.”

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Sat, 22 Feb 2020 08:46:22 -0800 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615190/how-big-tech-hijacked-its-sharpest-funniest-critics/
<![CDATA[Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life]]> https://reallifemag.com/apocalypse-whatever/

Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is a cryptic but popular saying: “Praise Kek.

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Mon, 18 Nov 2019 05:26:21 -0800 https://reallifemag.com/apocalypse-whatever/
<![CDATA[The Abolition Of Man (No, Really) | The American Conservative]]> https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-abolition-of-man-no-really/

My libertarian friend Conor Friedersdorf has stared into the abyss, and has been jolted by what stared back. He writes about it in a must-read essay with the deceptively anodyne title “The Limits of Diversity”. Conor begins by laying out his own openness to diverse experience.

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Sat, 10 Aug 2019 13:20:54 -0700 https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-abolition-of-man-no-really/
<![CDATA[Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars if we are to ensure that humanity has a future]]> https://aeon.co/essays/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars

‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles. It was a sunny afternoon, a Thursday, one of three designated weekdays Musk spends at SpaceX.

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Sat, 10 Aug 2019 13:20:50 -0700 https://aeon.co/essays/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars
<![CDATA[Daniel Rourke - “We're trying to have the non-weird future get here as fast as possible.”]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47boeVR3VuI

Goldsmiths College Department of Art MFA Lectures 2018 - 2019

Series 1.1: Offence is the Best Defence: On the Success of Social Media Toxicity

8 Oct 2018 — Daniel Rourke (Goldsmiths): “We're trying to have the non-weird future get here as fast as possible.” 15 Oct 2018 — Isobelle Clarke (Birmingham): "Poor little snowflake, are you 'grossly' offended?": Quantifying Communicative Styles of Twitter Trolling 22 Oct 2018 — Zeena Feldman (Kings College, London): Beyond Time: On Quitting Social Media 29 Oct 2018 — William Davies (Goldsmiths): War of Words: Embodiment and Rhetoric in Online Combat

Daniel Rourke 8th October 2018 “We're trying to have the non-weird future get here as fast as possible.”

From the Latin ‘aequivocare’, for ‘called by the same name’, to equivocate is to use language ambiguously to conceal a truth or avoid commitment to a single meaning. In this talk Daniel Rourke will consider equivocation in the performative (social media) speech acts of figures such as Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

How their speech acts exposit a 'shared' future, or a means of ‘escaping’ our present conditions, has much to tell us about how the very idea of the ‘true’ or the ‘false’ has shifted in the era of algorithmic governance, and social media campaigns such as #MeToo.

Turning to Homi K. Bhabha's theories of postcolonial discourse, as well as introducing the project The 3D Additivist Manifesto – co-created with Morehshin Allahyari – Daniel will end by trying to reaffirm the equivocal act, pointing out a way to generate and move toward non-determinate futures without imperialising them.

BIO: Dr. Daniel Rourke is a writer/artist and co-convener of Digital Media (MA) at Goldsmiths. In his work Daniel creates collaborative frameworks and theoretical toolsets for exploring the intersection of digital materiality, the arts, and posthumanism. These frameworks often hinge on speculative elements taken from science fiction and pop culture: fictional figures and fabulations that might offer a glimpse of a radical ‘outside’ to the human(ities). His writing and artistic profile includes work with AND Festival, The V&A, FACT Liverpool, Arebyte gallery, Centre Pompidou, Transmediale, Tate Modern, Sonic Acts Festival, as well as recent artistic collaborations with a cast of hundreds... web: machinemachine.net.

Presented by the Art Department, Goldsmiths.

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Fri, 08 Feb 2019 06:24:18 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47boeVR3VuI
<![CDATA[Survival of the Richest – Future Human – Medium]]> https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk — about half my annual professor’s salary — all to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology.”

I’ve never liked talking about the future. The Q&A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I’m asked to opine on the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols for potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, CRISPR. The audiences are rarely interested in learning about these technologies or their potential impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or not to invest in them. But money talks, so I took the gig.

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Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:32:30 -0700 https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1
<![CDATA[Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias]]> http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/321649

I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering if it is better regardless of who you are in that world." i.e. imagine that you don't know who you would be born as in a possible world, and build your utopia from there.

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Sat, 28 Apr 2018 05:30:01 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/321649