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The IFTF explains how futurism can be used in times of pandemic

How pandemic crises have contributed to change the course of history... Short article.

more surveillance

"Musk is behaving less like humankind's savior and more like a ruthless industrialist. "

Games saving humanity

An overview of virtual worlds in these times of pandemic. Will the be a solution for musicians and performers or stay niche?

A city support local businesses during the pandemic using an alternative currency

This video by Stephen Downes looks at change and technology during the pandemic and after, asking what it is we want to get from our educational systems, and what that might look like in the future. Lecture, Apr 28, 2020.

The competition is increasing, video is becoming ever more important

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.

This 20 minute video show Terry Irwin, Director of the Transition Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University introducing the Transition Design approach and looking at COVID-19 in the U.S. through the lens of Transition Design.

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

The only problem is, as Edward O. Wilson so succinctly put it, "we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." So how do we overcome our Paleolithic emotions (like fear, jealousy, and greed) and our medieval institutions (US health care, anyone?) to deploy our godlike technologies?