1/ For the past year, we’ve been building a new research organization:

Speculative Technologies (@spec__tech) exists to create an abundant, wonder-filled future by unlocking powerful materials and manufacturing technologies that don’t have a home in other institutions.

Summer of Protocols is an ongoing research effort to catalyze interest in the study of protocols as a first-class concept for thinking about the world summerofprotocols.com cc Indy Johar Dark Matter Labs

Global trade relationships are reshaping as geopolitical tension is on the rise. But reducing direct imports from a country may not reduce geopolitical risk as much as you might expect.

What leaders need to know. ⬇️
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When people see the robot installation by country.

They think it'll be easy for the US to reindustrialize, or for underdeveloped countries like India to industrialize and catchup

Here are the reasons why, it's very difficult for both type of nations:
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Dear Scottish friends - imagine if a few Scottish Housing Associations, Landowners, Developers were willing to form an Public Interest Alliance to support the development of the Scottish Digital Planning Program .. (for the fraction of the investment) please do get in touch -…

Terrific post by Jennifer Pahlka, slaughtering the sacred cows of 'evidence based policy', magic bullets and 'quick wins' all at once hypertextjournal.substack.com/p/the-limits-o…

No words for how much I love Open Systems Lab and Alastair Parvin + crew 💗

opensystemslab.io/news/100-facto…

We're looking for innovation directors, civic designers, data specialists and more to help 25 cities reach for the ✨✨✨ on climate & racial wealth equity.

Check out the open roles in Buffalo! Memphis! Oakland! Phila! St Louis! and more 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

publicinnovation.jhu.edu/about/career-o…

On Monday I asked, 'how might systems thinking transform belief systems?'. Today, Professor Ann Light Malmö University & colleagues have posted 'Nine dimensions of transformative change through creative practice' creaturesframework.org/funding/creatu…

The scale of industrial transformation needed for a net zero world is honestly hard to even conceptualise.. we need to build with atoms, this time! Nice guide on building and scaling climate hardware planet-a.notion.site/BUILDING-AND-S…

'At the moment we are designing our public services like an iPad. Functional but good luck if you want to understand the rules it runs on' richardpope.org/talks/2024/03/… Richard Pope @[email protected] on why user centered design alone is not sufficient

If you care about navigating a way through to a flourishing future, this is essential listening/viewing - from @Indy_johar, one of the greatest minds of our time - and part of Dark Matter Labs

youtube.com/live/knDC8hXDd…

#FridaysForFuture #Sustainability #fridaymorning

Amidst climate breakdown, systemic volatility, and the geopolitization of global markets, we're entering a phase where sustaining profits will increasingly drive either systemic corruption and/or rent-seeking behaviors as principal strategies to maintain profit signals. This…

Look in any direction in the UK economy today, you basically see different variations of the same thing: a small number of big companies taking the mick*.

(*economic rent, from ownership of basic essential goods and services)

Did you know?

There's an Interplanetary Transport Network in our Solar System, used to launch spacecraft from Earth and send them to the desired destination.

It is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the Solar System that require very little energy for…

An idea I can't stop thinking about...

The Medici Effect

In 15th century Florence, the wealthy Medici banking family began funding the arts.

This funding attracted the world's best artists and thinkers to one location at one point in time. The talent density sparked a…

Welcome to the 'uninsurable world'

'4 consecutive years when insurance losses from natural catastrophes topped $100b, previously the mark of a remarkably bad year, has spooked executives', - as rising premiums become a de facto carbon price on consumers

ft.com/content/ed3a1b…

🇪🇺 Where in Europe are farmers protesting?

For months, European farmers have been protesting and demanding changes from their governments. Due to anti-Russian sanctions and the allocation of huge sums of money for useless aid to Ukraine, the EU is cutting the budget to continue…

Naval Ravikant: 'You should have a definite view of the future. You should actually go out and build the thing you want to see exist, rather than sit back and wait for somebody else to do it.

History doesn't work that way. Things don't just automatically show up. There are…