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“The True Source of Hope Is That We Never Know”: Scripturient x Design by Fire, with Brett Milligan

https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/08/15/the-true-source-of-hope-is-that-we-never-know-scripturient-x-design-by-fire-with-brett-milligan/

Published: August 15, 2024 11:57

The latest edition of Scripturient, my quarterly column for Information Professional magazine, is out now and can be downloaded here. In it, I interview UC Davis’s Brett Milligan, who together with Emily Schlickman is the author of Design by Fire, a new…

Climate action and the vantage point of imagined futures: a scenario-based conversation

https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/07/01/climate-action-and-the-vantage-point-of-imagined-futures-a-scenario-based-conversation/

Published: July 1, 2024 11:03

npj Climate Action has today published a new article, “Climate action and the vantage point of imagined futures: a scenario-based conversation“, co-written by Marie Mahon, Malka Older, David Robertson, and myself. Drawing on the example of the IMAJINE…

Peat Hub Ireland: 2050 Scenarios

https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/06/01/peat-hub-ireland-2050-scenarios/

Published: June 1, 2024 00:18

I’m just back from collaborating with the Peat Hub Ireland team on a scenarios workshop which invited participants from across the communities and institutions involved in Irish peatlands management to explore three visions of the world in 2050.…

Emerging Threats x auDA: Mapping the Future of Internet Governance and Security

https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/05/26/emerging-threats-x-auda-mapping-the-future-of-internet-governance-and-security/

Published: May 26, 2024 14:28

A group from the University of Oxford’s Emerging Threats group have written a response to the auDA future-of-the-Internet scenarios, exploring them from an emerging threats and geopolitical security perspective. You can read “Mapping the Future of Internet…

Scripturient: To Dream Like A Human

https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/05/21/scripturient-to-dream-like-a-human/

Published: May 21, 2024 03:52

The world could always be otherwise than it is. Sometimes fate is only a failure of imagination. The trajectory of automation is not only uncertain, it is unwritten. The fundamental question is less about technical capacity than ethics, authority, and…

Scenarios, cinema, and the horizon of dreams

https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/04/28/scenarios-cinema-and-the-horizon-of-dreams/

Published: April 28, 2024 17:34

“…of all forms of art, only film could show the remote horizon of dreams as a habitable country and, at the same time, could turn familiar landscapes into a vague scenery fit only for dreams.” Gerald Murnane, The Plains The word scenario came into strategy…

The View from Fourth Place

https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/04/17/the-view-from-fourth-place/

Published: April 18, 2024 02:59

The concept of practising failure perhaps prompts us to discover our inner dweeb, to be underachievers, to fall short, to get distracted, to take a detour, to find a limit, to lose our way, to forget, to avoid mastery, and, with Walter Benjamin, to…