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The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. And it's Orwellian.

Stable Intermediate Sub-assemblies

Transition Design brings together two global memes. First, the idea that entire societies must transition toward more sustainable, equitable and desirable long-term futures and second, that these transitions will require intentional, systems-level change. We see evidence of these memes in the large number of transition-related initiatives springing up around the world, and the rise in the number of tools and knowledge sets aimed at understanding complex systems and systems problems.

new course by Jane McGonigal

Future of work with an app which works on various platforms, with and without headsets

by Renée DiResta, the Technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. "Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level"

Scoble's musing are as always interesting. He also provides a 'future signal' by referring to a patent by Apple for a wearable which potentially could warn you have COVID-19 or other diseases before you even have any obvious physical symptoms.

If you have any interest in scifi, futurism and world-building at all, you should listen to this, I guess.

Teleworking in VR, the Oculus Quest shows a possible future

The Future of work as imagined at Facebook, the company which now stimulates its employees to work from home

IFTF study for Remote Lab

It's a foregone conclusion that everybody in the world will be a gamer someday. There are only a billion active gamers today. Someday there will be 7 billion, 8 billion active gamers. The growth opportunity for gaming is still well ahead of us. Gaming is the only entertainment that can be any entertainment. You and I both know that when the metaverse [arrives], we're going to spend a lot more time in game worlds, not just to game, but just to hang out, to be with people, to interact with people. The gaming market has a great future ahead of it.

Transscript of DWeb panel. "Many of us know that the Internet is broken, so how do we build something better? On September 22, DWeb San Francisco invited a panel of experts to share their views on the most viable paths forward. The panelists included author & EFF advisor Cory Doctorow, Matrix.org co-founder Amandine Le Pape, decentralized social media researcher Jay Graber, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick. They covered a range of approaches - including technical, regulatory, and organizational - that could bring us towards a future where our networks are more resilient, participatory, and decentralized."

Dapper Labs believes that it can help streamline the process of creating, operating, and participating in DAOs, whether it's for individual creators or established companies that see a future in decentralizing and embracing a Web3 world.

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