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Open video to the government of Lanzarote and the Canary Islands – Design your preferred Future!
Some of you may know that we spend quite a bit of time in #lanzarote, The Canary Islands and that I have a live-streaming studio...
The Pandemic Year Marked a Turning Point in Climate Change. Must-read by David Wallace-Wells, NY Magazine (2021)
All year, a planet transformed by the burning of carbon discharged what would have once been called portents of apocalypse. The people of that planet,...
28
Jul 2022
Highlights from the 1st Fork Talk event on May 13th
The inaugural session for the Fork Talks took off with me and Glen Heimstra as hosts, featuring presentations by Brenda Cooper, Philip Kotler, David Houle...
21
May 2021
What does Covid teach us about climate change? Food for Thought by Tim Harford (Financial Times)
"Climate change because of greenhouse gas emissions is well under way, but at a speed measured in decades. As a result, it is almost impossible...
14
May 2021
Announcing The Fork In The Road Project – Please Join Us!
https://forkintheroadproject.com/ Today, I am delighted to invite all interested readers, friends, clients and fellow futurists to consider and join an important new initiative. Together with...
06
Mar 2021
Douglas Rushkoff’s must-read on ‘technology out of control’ – couldn’t have said it better myself!
"The next decade will determine whether we human beings have what it takes to rise to the occasion of our own, imposed obsolescence"
11
Jan 2020
Sacha Baron Cohen’s speech at ADL 2019 event: #mustwatch on Social Media !
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03
Dec 2019
When Tim Cook says no to the FBI (new book by Leander Kahney)
A new book about Tim Cook is out: Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level and the author Leander Kahney shared an extract...
19
Apr 2019
The ethics of care and radical data science: an inhumane reduction of humanity down to what can be counted?
Os Keyes is a PhD student at the University of Washington and an inaugural Ada Lovelace Fellow who studies gender, data, technology, and control. She has...
15
Apr 2019
4500+ Researchers Call for an Immediate Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
Although AI plays an integral role in our everyday lives, AI can also be used to create weapons of mass destruction, unlike anything the world...
10
Apr 2019
Curing death or ageing better? Healthspan vs. lifespan
Anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite says we need to fix our own deeply ingrained beliefs about what getting older means. Applewhite’s new book, “This Chair Rocks,”...
06
Apr 2019
The dark and shady practices of Silicon Valley
Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years and was one of the early investors in Facebook. He has just published his new...
25
Mar 2019
“Dear Tech Company”: A nice counter-narrative to IBM’s promotional video
On 12 Feb 2019, IBM published a new video advertisement “Dear Tech, An Open Letter to the Industry” asking what kind of tech company does the...
11
Mar 2019
Microsoft Workers for good : towards a corporate spring, fuelled by #digitalethics ?
In a letter addressed to top executives, a group of Microsoft workers who worked on the company’s HoloLens headset sent a letter to Microsoft CEO...
05
Mar 2019
Facebook is no longer ‘social’ anything – it’s an AI-platform that needs to be regulated (updated)
Last year's reports that some apparently well-funded Russian entities used Facebook to systemically disseminate fake news and seed widespread dissent during the 2016 U.S. elections is...
15
Jan 2018
Futurist David Brin: Be a Proxy activist ! Love this concept (and yes, I am, also)
Be a proxy activistBrin believes everyone should be a proxy activist. That means you find half a dozen nonprofit organizations to give $50 a month...
13
Jun 2017
Brilliant EFF ad in Wired (message to the tech community re. Trump): your threat model has changed
EFF Ad in Wired: Tech Community Must Secure Networks Against Trump Administration San Francisco – In a full-page advertisement in Wired magazine, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)...
