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Counter Currents: Are.na on Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines

It’s about how we can naturally contextualize information that grows exponentially, how we can create tools that enable us easily organize the information we collected into meaningful structures, how we can provide a space for people to think and imagine more effectively, how we can bridge the gap between thinking and creating, how we can encourage... See more

Alan Chan • My Vision: A New City

Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future

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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

Cesar Hidalgo

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An engaging exploration of futures thinking, blending creativity, sustainability, and community. Reflect on multi-layered futures, mundane magic, and plant better futures with a mix of playful activities and thoughtful insights.

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Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons

Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that

As we have seen in the previous theses, our digital environment:

Regulates our lives towards a smaller number of paths purposely designed by others rather than trails more fortuitous and exploratory.

Builds up a monolithic authentic self rather than a lush set of mutually-enriching contextual identities.

Is heavily focused on categorising people, whic