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Anything for the Views? Subservience to Algorithms and the Corrosion of Culture

Anything for the Views? Subservience to Algorithms and the Corrosion of Culture

Header image by Kyle McDonald, Creative Commons With billions of views per day and hundreds of hours of video uploaded every minute, independent, searchable and algorithmically personalised video content is the king of modern media.  Traditional television channels are becoming irrelevant, newspaper media is losing steam and cutting the cord is the new normal.  ThisContinue Reading

Podcast Futures: Interview with the Robot Overlordz

Last month I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker on the Robot Overlordz podcast, an experience I enjoyed so much that I thought it would be great to return the favour and ask them a few questions about the current state of futurist thinking and where the community might be headed next. FC:Continue Reading

9 Kickstarter Campaigns for Futurists (Open Now!)

Popular ideas on the platform, those that hit the zeitgeist effectively whilst seeming viable, really open up to us what the next few years of consumer products have in store.Continue Reading

A Citizen’s Guide to Protecting Yourself from Mass Surveillance

Here are some perfectly legal, morally sound, and relatively easy steps that every conscientious citizen should be taking to say no to untargeted government surveillance.Continue Reading

[Review] Ex Machina – The Future is Now

Like the best of futurist thinking, this is a film that demands us to question ourselves and the world we are co-creating.Continue Reading

Will Virtual Reality Make Us More Anti-Social?

Virtual Reality will prove, in many examples over time, to be anti-social. Which is why we should not shy away from the question, and cannot allow ourselves to hide from the plausible repercussions of this new technology.Continue Reading