Strategies for reimagining the future

Presentation at Salzburg Global Seminar session 593: The Shock of the New.

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1. Strategies for reimagining the future.
   Salzburg
   22 February 2018
   Michell Zappa
   

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2. One of the primary causes [of technological somnambulism]
   is the way we view technology as tools, something that can
   be put down and picked up again.
   Because of this view of objects as something we can easily
   separate ourselves from we fail to look at the long term
   implications of using that object.
   Langdon Winner
   Technology as forms of life (2004)
   

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3. Technology is neither good nor bad;
   nor is it neutral
   Melvin Kranzberg
   

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20. Technology Intelligence Platform
    

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23. Organizations
    Sources
    Industries
    

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24. Desirability
    Readiness
    

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25. Readiness
    

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31. Now is the time for reimagining.
    

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33. Everything is accelerating.
    

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36. “Move fast and break things”
    does not scale.
    

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39. The future stands upon the present,
    and the present is quicksand.
    James Gleick
    Time Travel (2016)
    

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40. Thanks for your attention.
    @michellzappa
    

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