It was Week 9 at Near Future Laboratory, and some things happened.
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➫ Chapman University Bensussen Lecture in the Arts
➫ SxSW 2024 Panel Preparations.
➫ A PoemOS Project
➫ Circular Economy Futures
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A beautiful opportunity to see the shape of arts education nowadays.
I was invited to visit studios and classes at Chapman University, and to deliver the annual Bensussen Lecture in the Arts
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Going to be at SxSW? Come to my panel, and let's meet up!
First time back to SxSW since the last time, and that last time was, like...2012, the year SxSW jumped the shark and Snoop Dogg performed in a 56 foot tall Doritos vending machine. Let's hope things have evolved!
Come to our Imagine Harder panel with Avi Bar-Zeev and Andreea Ion Cojocaru on Monday March 11 10:00am – 11:00am CT in Salon ABC in the JW Marriott. We'll chat!
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Filed under Weekly Studies in Possible Futures of AI.
Imagining possible futures that might be okay to inhabit by knitting together APIs from OpenAI and Elevenlabs with Python.
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Pop Psychology
Our latest artifact from a possible future in which the Sony Walkman failed..and the Sony Aibo caught on globally, and Sony dominated in the world of domesticated robots, spurring a 1980s revolution in artificial intelligence. This book tells the story of the P.K. Dick classic 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', only as a counter factual in which, yeah, of course they do..all intelligent beings dream, right HAL?
But wait! Includes Flash Cards Of All Major Manufacturers Makes and Models of Honeywell & Pepperidge Farms Electronic Sheep!
Buy your set now!
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Week 9: A Few Things Found in the NFL Discord
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In the 🎧-podcasts channel @florianlow posted
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The "Necessary Tomorrows" podcast, presented by Doha Debates and Al Jazeera Podcasts, blends speculative fiction with documentary elements, inviting listeners to explore potential futures shaped by the interactions between humans, artificial intelligence, and the natural world, as envisioned by science fiction writers and actualized by activists and scientists.
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In the AI Magazine channel @Julian posted
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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a guide on AI assurance to help organizations implement safe and responsible AI systems, aligning with the UK's regulatory principles from March 2023.
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In the 🥋-shill-and-share channel @thejaym0 posted
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Jay Springett and Dougald Hine engage in a thoughtful dialogue on "Experience.Computer", discussing the evolution of the internet, the profound effects of attention, the act of writing by hand, and the transformative power of conversation in shaping ideas, within the broader context of Hine's multifaceted career and perspectives.
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In the 🧰-artificial-intelligence channel @camillemakes posted
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We are building a future where anyone can make great music. No instrument needed, just imagination. From your mind to music.
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In the 📓-employee-manual channel @.chrizbo posted
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Chris Butler discusses enhancing product decision-making processes by emphasizing deliberate focus on identification, discourse, decision-making, communication, and learning stages to avoid common pitfalls in decision-making practices.
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JOIN THE NEAR FUTURE LABORATORY DISCORD
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The Near Future Laboratory Has A Community. We Do Futures Projects at the Vanguard of The Not True *Yet
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Current Projects
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NFL Discord Members' Projects Stay Creative
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@DrewWiberg
In your downtime between shifts at the algae farm, tune into Gnome School, helpfully sponsored by Borwick's Baking Powder, Sunlight Soap, and Oxo. Listening to Gnome School allows you to almost experience, from wherever you are in the climate wastes, the harmony of nature and spirit in homes strategically sited around symbolic mid-western mound placements featuring rooftop gardens and light-piping roofs. Check It ↻.
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@daisy a/k/a Aaron Breetwor
Skateboard advocate Aaron Breetwor, brand manager for Comet Skateboards. Aaron chats about using skateboards for transportation, designing streets for safer skateboarding, and this last years incident at the Dolores Street hill bomb. Listen ↻.
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@davegray
The School of the Possible is a self-funded, fully independent research and development lab. In any situation, there is always a best next step. This best next step is not always clear or obvious, but it is always within reach. There are invisible doorways around us and each is a threshold to a possible future. Possibilities must be found, invented, created, coaxed, manifested, discovered.
This is the job of the Possibilitarian. Get On The Path ↻.
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We're prospecting for sponsors-collaborators for a deep-dive into circular economy futures. A few months back we did a General Seminar to explore the everyday in a world in which value and resources circulated as outlined by the principles of circular economics. And now we want to expand the research and represent a tangible snapshot of that world to make it more legible to more people. Join us!
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