Near Future Laboratory Blog
Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Jan 2, 2024 – Feb 14, 2024
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Electrical Schematic of a Basic Class-A Amplifier
Feb 14, 2024
The continuing journey to foster a community-driven creative renaissance through collaboration, coordination, and amplification. The new Token Ring Web Ring initiative leverages structured communication to promote cooperative work and envision more habitable future worlds.
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Spark Podcast
Feb 11, 2024
Imagination is often dismissed as childish, or a frill. But it also lets us picture alternative futures, and technologies that haven't been invented yet. So how do we harness our imagination? And in an age where Big Tech promises to solve our problems for us, how do we use our imaginations to build the futures we want?
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Design Fiction Artifact
Feb 04, 2024
A design fiction magazine from a possible AI future and podcasting with Radha Mistry and Nora Young
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Header image for What Is Design Fiction video on Youtube
Feb 01, 2024
What is Design Fiction? Design Fiction uses sci-fi and design to create prototypes, envisioning future possibilities and their impacts. It helps organizations think beyond current trends, fostering a deeper understanding of potential technological and societal changes through tangible artifacts.
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Jan 28, 2024
Week Notes from the Near Future Laboratory including The Work Kit of Design Fiction, work on a Magazine from a Possible AI Future, reflections on how not to imagine the future of artificial intelligence, and what exactly is Design Fiction
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Jan 24, 2024
Metaverse Futures, Design Fiction, Tourism Futures, Center for Science and the Imagination, Workshop, AI Futures
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Still frame from 'The Assignment'
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Jan 16, 2024
Design Fiction translates signals into tangible, meaningful artifacts. Artifacts. Not storyboards.
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In Clear Focus Podcast Cover Image for Season 13 Episode 10 with Julian Bleecker
Jan 02, 2024
Julian Bleecker explains the development of Design Fiction, a method he pioneered for imagining future scenarios through the creation of tangible artifacts. Julian discusses some of the ways the practice can help guide decision-making and its uses in strategy and communication. Julian invites listeners to explore this interdisciplinary approach through publications and the , a community applying Design Fiction principles to a broad range of projects.
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