Ethical Futures Lab
This week’s signals focus on emotions — how they can be used for foresight, how they might be manipulated for profit, and how they might be misinterpreted by machines. We also look at adaptation, reviving the question of whether our technological systems should adapt to us, or i…
Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie
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This week’s signals speak to the importance of questioning the premise — ways that we can alter the underlying web to make it better, how to see what c…
Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie
Apr 19CommentShare
How do we make the spaces we want to live in, both online and off? Do we innovate within the context of public works, or private markets? Once we build…
Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie
Apr 5CommentShare
innovation often isn’t about a shiny new object, but about the nuances of how that object works in relationship to everything around it. 
Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie
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This week’s signals explore product evolution, virtual collaborations, the beauty of abundance in digital art, and the most hilarious AI exploit ever.
Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie
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New uses for blockchain, new challenges for Clubhouse, and new exploits to obscure vital information on social platforms. Read on to the end to learn s…
Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie
Feb 22CommentShare
Orthogonal, intersectional, and communal futures
Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie
Feb 8CommentShare
This week we look deeply at the idea of “scale”, or the size and reach of an idea or service. Being big has its benefits and drawbacks, and while being…
Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie
Jan 25CommentShare
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