Causal Islands is about bringing together experts and enthusiasts from many different backgrounds and sharing and learning together. We are creative technologists, researchers, and builders, exploring what the future of computing can be. The LA community edition on Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 has themes of building and running networks together, exploring the future through creativity and poetics of computing, tools for thought and other interfaces for human knowledge, emerging and rethinking social networks, generative AI as a humane tool for people, and the journey of building a more distributed web.

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North of Patient aims to paint an inspired landscape of healthcare's future through dialogues with creative and unconventional thinkers globally.

Signs of change workshop at SxSW South by Southwest 2024 where we use Design Fiction to imagine the implications of change using the typical street sign as the grounding artifact, or as an archetype that helps with the hard work of imagining change.

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Poetry, Python, Prototyping, Play and technology, where AI-generated poems come to life through Eleven Labs' voice synthesis. This was a bit of a journey of creating a Python program that could build daily poems, generate the audio, create a little animation and then drop off the whole package to be shared.

Let's use Design Fiction to wonder what might be for breakfast in a future in which AI is as normal, ordinary, and everyday as 10 minute pizza delivery and wheels on luggage and the other benefits brought by technology innovation? Join us for General Seminar where we will be discussing artifacts that might appear in a magazine from an AI future.

Julian Bleecker combines OpenAI and ElevenLabs to generate an AI created daily poem, blending technology with creativity and design fiction sensibilities with a hint of psychogeography.