The striking thing about the reaction to ChatGPT is not just the number of people who are blown away by it, but who they are. These are not people who get excited by every shiny new thing. Clearly something big is happening.

Every decision is a future decision. After working in Speculative Design for the past 14 years, I’m excited to launch this self-paced online course, to help people understand it’s theory and application to create meaningful impact in the world. critical.design/product/specul…

Just sitting down for breakfast and look what arrived in the mail! Congratulations to The Manual of Design Fiction fosta Fabien Girardin nicolasnova Near Future Laboratory It’s a fantastic read, and really meaningful addition to the practice. 🙏

Here are 15 tips for you to improve civil discourse in the world. Become a master of conflict in 2023. #conversationsmatter

Paul Graham +2° C Warming

The inability of the current UK government to acknowledge ground truth on issues from climate change, to NHS collapse, to waste water disruption, to Brexit outcomes, etc. is just a catastrophic failure in leadership. Rishi Sunak #BrokenBritain

Blunt intellectual honesty about today is so refreshing. It is a kindness to the future. #honesty #kindness

Imagine having an economic system where ecologically urgent and socially necessary things (renewable energy, public transit, affordable housing) are not produced simply because rich people cannot make enough profits doing so. Irrational barely begins to describe it.

We live in a time where the speed of change is profound, and accelerating. This creates "Possibility Dilation", where all possibilities could arrive sooner. #SpeculativeDesign becomes an essential for organizations to understand and prepare for all potentials. #design #nkd

We are excited to have @timparrique join us for a discussion on #degrowth where he'll be sharing his research, work, and thoughts. An absolutely #critical discussion in a world buckling from the impacts of our #growth focused #economy. #climatechange meetup.com/school-of-crit…

This conversation with @timparrique on Degrowth is happening tonight! Still some space, and hope you'll join us! #degrowth #GreenGrowth #economics #ClimateEmergency #Sustainability #design #designthinking #speculativedesign #servicedesign #systemsdesign

What happens when superhuman AIs arrive? It already happened in Go, and a new paper finds it boosted human performance & creativity: “innovative thinking can spread from machines to humans and among humans themselves, possibly improving human decision-making in those domains.”

Survival and happiness go hand in hand - when we're safe and secure, we're more likely to feel happy! Think about the conditions need to create psychological safety in evolutionary terms. Optimize water, food, sleep, exercise, friends, etc. to start. #evolution #psychology

👀After 154 pages of tests of GPT-4, this paper concludes “Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.” arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

For our ancestors, feeling happy was essential to survival. It signaled that they had enough resources to survive another day. #evolution #history

As future possibilities seem to be collapsing and expanding simultaneously, is it possible we are failing to imagine where we are today and what is next? Join us for this critical discussion with The Manual of Design Fiction on the need to "Imagine Harder"! meetup.com/school-of-crit…

Check this out tho - this Tue Apr 11th at 11a PT I'll be here with the gang at School of Critical Design talking about the ways #designfiction can reinvigorate our imagination and get out of these doldrums of apocalyptic futures. $0. Online. Bring the Entenmann's. meetup.com/school-of-crit…

Join us tonight to hear Penny Baxter discuss the "Future of Sustainability" and explore the work and potential of corporations in this space. 7pm BST! #speculativedesign #futures #climatechange #climatebreadown #climateemergency #servicedesign #esg meetup.com/school-of-crit…

Our project with @luhc on Multiple Disadvantage showed the importance of #systemsthinking in policy. We are now developing a 'playable system' with a renowned game designer to help policymakers tackle systemic challenges in policy. Testing, learning & sharing to follow. #PSILabs

So I'm really looking forward to this! I've loved my explorations over the years with self-quantification, & happiness optimization, and I've always felt that a measure everything data driven approach is eventually where we need to land. Thanks Bryan Johnson ! Don't die!