Futures

Guy Fawkes, Friedrich Nietzsche and now, Anonymous. The shape-shifting cyber vigilantes are ever-present wherever there is a stir in the people, thriving amidst chaos, evading classification and baffling their opponents with their coded logic.

Welcome to the age of adhocracy. As the opposite of bureaucracy, adhocracy cuts across accepted conventions and power structures to capture opportunities, self-organize and develop new and unexpected methodologies of production.

What happens when a good chunk of people are unemployed due to automation? Douglas Rushkoff on the future of work and its broader implications (e.g. UBI, meaning etc.).

Communications between citizens and their institutions is often problematic, discouraging people from engaging. Brickstarter is a platform to turn possibilities into proposals into projects.

A team of creative neighbourhood-changers that assemble as a non-profit think tank to come up with interesting ways to start conversations, renew a sense of community, and unfold curiosities.

A big issue with our prevalent production model is that the cost of disposal of obsolete goods is excluded from profit calculations. In most cases, it means that cost is either ignored or passed on to society. Enter: the circular economy.

A physicist-turned-farmer is using open source technology for an innovative project that places the power to survive and thrive directly in the hands of every community.

What happens when the wardens of digital information (and the all-too-human people behind it) accumulate too much data?

Patrick Pittman (PP), co-editor of The Alpine Review, sat down with the pair to talk about the benefits of a criminal mind, unconventional modes of understanding, and design and materiality.