Media Future Week: Beware Flat-pack Futures

Beware offlat-pack futures

Scott SmithMedia Future Week 2013

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‘Stacks. In 2012 it made less and less sense to talk about "the Internet," "the PC business," "telephones," "Silicon Valley," or "the media," and much more sense to just study Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. These big five American vertically organized silos are re-making the world in their image.’ —Bruce Sterling, “State of the World 2013,” The WELL

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Immateriality

Non-human Media

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Smart Objects

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Ownership

Permanence

Transparency

Materiality

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Mass Media is an Aberration

Duke TIP Futures Institute

Superflux and Changeist, Gulf Futures

Tobias Revell, “Mercenary Cubiclists”

Superflux / BBC R&D

Futures Design

Innovation

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Transdisciplinarity Agility

Agency

HumanityAwareness

Resilience

Empathy

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Learn Worldbuilding

Duke University TIP Futures Institute IED Barcelona Innovation & Future Thinking

Write Your Own Future

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