91 Podcasts in 24 Hours! Hyper Island Vision Week is when students chart their future paths while envisioning societal impact. Jörg Teichgraeber invited me to contribute to Vision Week 2024 by facilitating a Design Fiction workshop for students. A 'podcast from the future' was the brief. A Design Fiction conceit in which students imagine into a future world and represent the contours of that world through a humble podcast that has come back from the future.

Another productive collab with Tech Concept Lab — A Two-Day Workshop & Summit. These times are kinetic, chaotic, and full of dynamics that indicate change, if nothing more precise. It’s more than important — indeed it is existentially vital — that we constantly prototype and investigate possible futures as a matter of course. Think of these kinds of ‘workshops’ or ‘summits’ as training exercises, preparing ourselves for tomorrow, with no hard-and-fast expectation about tomorrow. This isn’t training for war, although some may prefer the metaphor.

The Distant Early Warning deck allows players to embark on a "cool trip into exotic regions," blending conventional games with media elements that are both verbal and pictorial. It's a conversational card game where the importance lies not just in the identity of the cards, but in the varied relationships and juxtapositions between them.

Episode 092 of the Near Future Laboratory Podcast anticipates our 2024 Imagine Harder Summit & Workshop on The Future of Work.