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Future #60: Things that don’t suck

It could be that we’re looking forward to a joyful holiday season, but whatever the reason, this issue brings news of major initiatives — some certain, some speculative — to pull back from the brink and rethink policies and systems in more humane ways. …

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Future #60: Things that don’t suck
Future #60: Things that don’t suck

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Published in Ethical Futures Lab

·Jan 10, 2022

Future #62: Invention & reinvention

Happy New Year, readers! We’ve missed you and are quite excited to get back to writing about all the weird and wonderful. In this issue we go deep on why web3 will probably become web2 redux, interactions with information beyond the infinite list, and the latest gadgets that may someday…

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Future #62: Invention & reinvention
Future #62: Invention & reinvention

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Published in Ethical Futures Lab

·Dec 13, 2021

Future #61: Technology vs. technique

We can have video games and we can have electric cars, but you probably shouldn’t put them together. This week, we look at how to tell the bad ideas from the good ones, how we might undo some of the worst ones to make things more humane for everyone, and…

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Future #61: Technology vs. technique
Future #61: Technology vs. technique

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Published in Ethical Futures Lab

·Nov 15, 2021

Future #59: Metaverse, multiverse, or more of the same?

Buckle in, friends, because today we try super hard to get excited about Web3. (We manage to find begrudging acceptance, but stop well short of excitement.) We also touch on Facebook’s surprising announcement on privacy and why the company may be destined for the ash heap of history. …

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Future #59: Metaverse, multiverse, or more of the same?
Future #59: Metaverse, multiverse, or more of the same?

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Published in Ethical Futures Lab

·Nov 1, 2021

Future #58: Disentangling the future from the past

Welcome back to Six Signals! We missed writing this (though the wedding was a blast!), and hopefully, you missed reading it as well. Grab some leftover Halloween candy and settle in for a re-imagining of books, a slower social network, and some tips on making better predictions. …

Future

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Future #58: Disentangling the future from the past
Future #58: Disentangling the future from the past
Future

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Published in Ethical Futures Lab

·Updated Sep 20, 2021

Future #57: It’s getting dark

This issue of Six Signals comes to you just two days before the autumnal equinox, so if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, your days have been and will continue to be getting shorter. It seems the news is following suit: we had a hard time finding a balance of…

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Future #57: It’s getting dark
Future #57: It’s getting dark

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Published in Medium.design

·Sep 15, 2021

Wine tasting and product design

As product designers, we are responsible for empathizing with our users. …

Product Design

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Wine tasting and product design
Wine tasting and product design
Product Design

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Published in Ethical Futures Lab

·Sep 6, 2021

Future #56: Trust, creativity, & rockets

Is the present moment one of catastrophe or renewal? How do you imagine non-obvious futures? How might we think about privacy and trust in nuanced ways? This week, we dig into these questions, with links to some truly excellent reads. …

Trust

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Future #56: Trust, creativity, & rockets
Future #56: Trust, creativity, & rockets
Trust

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Published in Ethical Futures Lab

·Aug 23, 2021

Future #55: Yours, mine, & ours

This week, we investigate how personal and collective identities are evolving: from the role of shared infrastructure in our lives to changes in how and what we eat. We also explore systems people can expand on, machines people can collaborate with, and a fun playground for images and text. —…

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Future #55: Yours, mine, & ours
Future #55: Yours, mine, & ours

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Published in Ethical Futures Lab

·Aug 9, 2021

Future #54: Where we don’t talk about the metaverse

This week’s issue runs the gamut, from deep thinking on climate change to NFT strippers and everything in between. On the one hand, we’ve got people doing thoughtful work to make our social and technological spaces better. On the other hand — well, the climate change and the NFT strippers…

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Future #54: Where we don’t talk about the metaverse
Future #54: Where we don’t talk about the metaverse

9 min read

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