Humanity has colonised the future, dumping ecological and tech risk on future generations who have no political voice. That's why my partner and I are giving our votes in Thursday's UK general election to our 15-year-old twins. #givethekidsyourvote
Crisis makes radical ideas relevant.
Radical ideas inspire social movements.
Social movements amplify crisis.
How can this dynamic 'Disruption Nexus' be harnessed to bring about transformative change? Check out this insightful new essay by @romankrznaric https://t.co/IysyzmI3ZW
The most clearest and crisp explanation, I've ever heard, of how large language models compress and capture a "world-model" in their weights simply by learning to predict the next word accurately.
Furthermore, how the raw power of these base models can then be tamed by teaching them to follow instructions from humans.
Source: https://t.co/8mQmaIVet3
Future, Foresight, Futurist Concept Map: in 2016 during my Masters in Strategic Foresight I created a visualisation of the glossary of futures/foresight terms. It helped me locate the role of ‘futurist’ at the intersection of methodologies, competencies and outcomes related to how systems transition, or within them we navigate discontinuities. It helped me understand my notion of the ‘dispositional present’, as a socio-cognitive space between facts and perception, between past and future(s), in which agency collides with plurality and emergence. I hope the concept map helps you too.
The world is undergoing rapid, revolutionary change, argues @ianbremmer in his new @TEDTalks. But it won’t be states or even superpowers who determine its future. It will be tech companies that neither can control. Well worth your time. https://t.co/4bw0KYhkY6