this is a message from the future

A global project on technology + power. #FutureSays_
Join us in our work to build the futures we *really* want.

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

👋 This is a message from the future:

5️Five years.
🤝 A network of allies.
⚔️ A family of fighters.
🔥 Enabled.
🤓 Committed.
🌈 Supported.

#FutureSays_

https://t.co/eICrUGltfp

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

“iCan conspire with outliers and

iCan throw off averages”

“iCan find my community in the choices

iCan choose something other than other”

Absolute 🔥🔥🔥 @DatapolicyProf in exquisite https://t.co/FU6h40zB3F

🎤 @futuresays_ art reaches minds faster than academic papers 🚀

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

here to whisper...

so we can roar...

claim your power back

https://t.co/opufvxyhrw @carissaveliz @TORCHOxford @oiioxford #FutureSays_ #PrivacyisPower

[Australian Academy of Science @Science_Academy]

Experts call for a national conversation on the use of data in Australian professional sport.
https://t.co/XLORzQXh6w

[Dr. Pinkeee👩‍💻@[email protected] @Elinor_Carmi]

There's a lot of things that are depressing in the world today, but the queens of internet awesomeness aka @ubiquity75 & @safiyanoble bring me so much hope for a better future 🤘💜💪🔥✨
Follow them for your dose of hope and change, and check out their new project-> @futuresays_

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

“We know what to target to reimagine tech. We’ll be operating with intellectual firepower around the world to go after it”

Prof John Naughton @jjn1 at @UniCambridge @WolfsonCam @CRASSHlive @Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy

Full version >> https://t.co/S83ogq9dcV

[Alvaro Bedoya @alvarombedoya]

& this is your Labor Day reminder that as we talk non-stop about consumer privacy, worker privacy laws are non-existent or in shambles even though people spend most daylight hours at work and employer surveillance is wildly invasive. From @gabriellexgem: https://t.co/7OiclROk7U

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

John Naughton (@jjn1) from our @minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy discusses machine-learning technology and the pitfalls of algorithmic decision making in this article in the @ObserverUK.
➞ https://t.co/8uxiQPsfMY
#MachineLearning
#Algorithms
#AI

[Prof Gina Neff @ginasue]

Life Goals! Our report on AI@Work makes the first page of @PrivateEyeNews 'AI told you so'. Full report at https://t.co/7E8sDtdbUN

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

Why are we sending messages from the “Future”?

Because there's too much status quo-ism in conversations about technology. Too much resignation. Too few challenges to inevitability and impunity.

Let's resist the theft of the future. Let's reimagine tech🔮https://t.co/w7NtE7DTOf

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

#FutureSays_ is anchored out of Perth, Australia - quite literally, in the future. Some of us are one day ahead of you, looking out over the horizon. 🇦🇺🦘

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

you will relish surfing this third-wave

https://t.co/IK5YssA7hc @carlykind_

https://t.co/3E3hlWjXL6

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

Can local communities disengage from fragile and extractive global supply chains?

Our parable, “The Makers of Etsytown,” by @anthonymobile and @bryanboyer takes us some of the way

The rest is for you of the present to ask for—and to build

https://t.co/a1a6hfrj6p (scroll down)

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

What began as a beautiful technology has been captured by corporations

Watch this delightful primer on internet history and nightmares with legendary @jjn1 https://t.co/CK3jgfw5GI

Enter through the trap door
Outlaw the business model
Tackle lawlessness

https://t.co/QQFuAnQwby

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

End exceptionalism.
Extend rules and remedies.
Outlaw the business model.

#ReclaimFutures #TackleLawlessness feat. @juliapowles @UWAresearch
@jjn1 @CRASSHlive @digitaljustlab

https://t.co/7rKGcFsA9o

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

In the physical world, laws, codes, and regulations keep the roof up. We need the same in digital.

End impunity
Value data
#TackleLawlessness

Watch our new profile video with @juliapowles

https://t.co/DLjBC7HCFh

https://t.co/Y07VueEA1c @mozilla @luminategroup

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

Build tech for wonder and discovery, not surveillance and oppression.

Ask the cool questions.
#ReimagineTech

Watch our new profile video with @UpFromTheCracks @WeBeImagining

https://t.co/cidmeIItMC

https://t.co/6JxFWcpbtA

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

Let’s elevate the imaginaries of artists, storytellers, and community elders. Let’s defend public benefit over corporate capture.

#Makeitwonderful feat @UpFromTheCracks @safiyanoble @ubiquity75 @anthonymobile @bryanboyer

https://t.co/a1a6hfrj6p

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

Workers may power the tech ecosystem, but they’re getting a rotten deal.

Watch our new profile with @mer__edith @AINowInstitute

https://t.co/SfB7estT23

https://t.co/wpcVI5fSRm

[this is a message from the future @futuresays_]

Re-centre people.
Challenge narratives.
Defeat inevitability.
Empower workers.

The future of work is human.

#Makeitwonderful feat @mer__edith @AINowInstitute @safiyanoble @ubiquity75 @C2i2_UCLA @maggieselfie @NayanaPrakash1 @ginasue @oiioxford

https://t.co/JrG1Sj7pwN

[A Multiplicity of Stories @MulticityStory]

Great design fiction from @futuresays_
Inclusive Futures for Local Delivery by Anthony Townsend and Bryan Boyer. #ReimagineTech
https://t.co/0bbPO2Ai1q