Citizen Futures

Citizen Futures is a podcast about creating a participatory future. We discuss evolving trends around society, governance, and technology. Hosted by @aarongerry

[Mara Zepeda @marazepeda]

"The real source of economic divergence isn’t that some people have jobs and others don’t. It’s that some people own assets like houses, stocks, while others don’t." @mgorbis on universal basic assets. Here's to a future of economic justice https://t.co/uxCJfnKX7X

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

[Zito @_Zeets]

Anyway! If you guys want, you can read the article about Senegal and coded language that started all of this https://t.co/xHQ36wBF28

[Richard D. Wolff @profwolff]

Capitalism is declining in W. Europe, N. America, Japan (while rising in China, India, etc.). For victims of decline, fear, anger yield Brexit, Trump, “populisms,” etc. Such fake "solutions" only worsen capitalism's costs (social, ecological). System change is what we need.

[Jacqueline @JackieMJensen]

"We normally keep very quiet about our failure. We can hardly bear to look at it ourselves, let alone mention it to anyone else. This is to allow failure a victory over us. Rather than remain painfully silent, we should dare to laugh at our failures in public." – @TheSchoolOfLife

[Jason Si. Williams @GoingParabolic]

In Germany, Bitcoin Is Now Legal Tender

Declared a "unit of account," thus allowing it to be used as legal currency for tax and trading purposes.

Bitcoin 1 - Haters 0
Mexico 🇲🇽 1 - Germany 🇩🇪 0

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

If you want to succeed over the next 5-10 years, learn coding. If you want to succeed over the next 10-50, study art

[Citizen Futures @CitizenFutures]

@stoweboyd Haha. “In the future, things will fail, but for the vast majority of the world this failure won't be 'the rocket is gonna crash into the planet,' but 'I can't get the audio to work on Skype.'” https://t.co/GxaM9d5EWn

[Citizen Futures @CitizenFutures]

Man begins six-month swim through 'Great Pacific garbage patch', according to the latest March estimate, is twice the size of France and contains nearly 80,000 tonnes of plastic.

https://t.co/rVKwwIL5RY

[David Harvey | @davidharvey.org on Bluesky @profdavidharvey]

Video: The Future of Global Capitalism with @profdavidharvey. Interview with @ChrisLynnHedges https://t.co/Ga6B324V1t

[Citizen Futures @CitizenFutures]

@roguishwisdom @vgr This sounds like a great idea, Peter! Listening to the first episode now. Excited to engage with more ideas that change our perception of the world.

[On the Commons @OntheCommons]

"The best measure of how a democracy functions is how it distributes the goods of the land.-- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

[Francis Irving @frabcus]

Facebook actually put *fake red dots* to try and make you think you have messages even if you don't, so you agree to their tracking more hastily. Read full complaint against Facebook: https://t.co/uI5fYairtK - with tricks like that, sorry Facebook, you deserve to be hit hard.

[Stowe Boyd | workfutures.io @stoweboyd.bsky.social @stoweboyd]

A long piece by Andy Beckett, Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs, questions the central role of work in our lives. Are we headed for a work without work: the post-work era?

https://t.co/VDWG7nOSVr

[Citizen Futures @CitizenFutures]

A Man Is Auctioning His Facebook Data on eBay, and It's Going Great. [Well was, until ebay took it down]. From Oli, “I joined Facebook ten years ago and just found out I’ve been selling me data for free all this time, why shouldn’t I get some of the cash?” https://t.co/B3BVXZ5jdO

[Richard D. Wolff @profwolff]

Capitalism crashes in 2008. 10 years later, millions have jobs at lower pay, there are more people with fewer benefits, and still more with less job security. Celebrate this disaster as a recovery? The system is the problem.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

This 20-minute talk by @benthompson on the difference between platforms and aggregators is fantastic. Easily my favorite business writer.

https://t.co/GjNqf9t26t

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

Money is a tool of pure abstraction. It enables the circulation of information and in itself has no value. As machines increase our productivity, we need to start distributing the incomes they aren't receiving, so as to continue circulation.

https://t.co/ehMDOkOEYR #BasicIncome

[Citizen Futures @CitizenFutures]

“Assume that everyone knows it already (your data), and try to get them to use it for your benefit [and in an ethical way]” - @VessPopov during "Is Big Data stealing your life?” at #BrainBar

[Citizen Futures @CitizenFutures]

"We need really good critical thinking about the ethics of technology, and what it means to be human.” - @AriPopper advocating for #philosophy as a vital skillset for the future. #BrainBar