architect, futurist, urban designer, rhetorician, adjunct prof and treehugger exploring urban futures, design futures, social change, among other things.
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Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Player Piano moved my young mind, the craziness and brilliance of life. Premiering at NY Film Festival Nov 7th, a documentary on Kurt Vonnegut that took a lifetime to make.
bit.ly/3Cvhnj8 #films
The Equitable Internet Initiative (EII), a collaboration between the Detroit Community Technology Project and a network of community organizations - brilliant! #cities #urbanism
Faced with a stark digital divide, Detroit community groups are mobilizing to build an internet network block by block thehill.com/changing-america…
Brilliant work by @PatriciaLustig and Gill Ringland examining 11 forces changing the world for future gens, eg, #cities, #population, #ai, #mobility, #energy. amazon.com/New-Shoots-People… #sustainability For now, it's free on kindle unlimited.
Our new book is finally out and we are very proud. It is a book of hope.
amazon.co.uk/dp/B09J8RJ4MK
Extreme wildfires in US, Australia, and Russia generate tens of millions of tons of CO2, a vicious cycle exacerbating #climatechange. #sustainability
Truly alarming indeed. A new study revealed that 10 protected forests had emitted more carbon than they locked away over the past 20 years. #climatechange
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
An article from Ozy, solid writing, thanks to @josefinesalomon, and for the mention, @stevekleber. FYI, pro futurists don't predict and futures ends with an s. There's a whole slew of many possible futures, way beyond "the future." Good to be back, twitterworld.#cities #urbanism
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Pleased to contribute to this book of essays about the brilliant and influential Future Shock by Alvin Toffler as a 50 year review. Does new tech still confuse and disrupt, or have we grown used to rapid change?
“My 90-year-old mother streams Doris Day songs on her Echo speaker with just a verbal command. In sum, we manage a multitude of changes on our own terms.” —Cindy Frewen (wrting in After Shock) @Urbanverse #futureshockat50 #ai #tech #future
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Other contributors include @DavidBrin, @Naveen_Jain_CEO, @avantgame, @aubreydegrey, @KurzweilAINews, @Urbanverse, Alan Kay, @dweinberger, @paragkhanna, @futuredition, @RobotLaunch, @Accone, and @kjaerglobal, among many others.
It's a seriously diverse tour of perspectives.
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Available Sept 18
Download a free preview of the book buff.ly/2CI3HqN and pre-order here buff.ly/2x5ENLJ #reimaginingtomorrow
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Foresight is serious, demanding, data-driven work.
For journalists who write about the future -- interviewing only or mostly men means you're writing about the future of X with blinders on. It's an easy problem to fix.
Driverless NYC - a competition. Reclaiming the streets, transportation for all, and more. driverlessfuture.blankspacep… #cities #4futr #urbanism – at Overland Park, KS
No one has more postcards than @nexrwavefuture! xitter.cf/profuturists/status/87…
#4futr World Future Day @profuturists Poetry Slam begins.#spkfutr It's 2040, remembering the 2020s, what's come and gone, gained and lost? xitter.cf/dddraeger/status/83675…
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@profuturists #SpkFutr The days are long gone when we sat around the fire sharing tales of heroes dead #SpkFutr of de-livened globo sapiens