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Visionary Tech: Learning new tools
Workshops showcasing tech projects to transform society. Sessions introduce ambitious initiatives like egalitarian crypto and DIY internet grids. Guests test the tech and join communities of practice.
– Spring 2026, London
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Optimistic Analog Technology (OATs: Independence from digital risks » 15 Jul 2025
A repository of methods for replacing digital dependence with analog alternatives. -
Digital detox as a form of technology » 13 Oct 2024
In my search for alternatives to digital life I have started to consider analog approaches as a kind of technology for living with less digital dependence. -
Escape the Digital: Detox journey » 29 Apr 2024
Many of us feel like slaves to digital devices. Could we survive without them? This day-long game supports and challenges you to forge analogue habits to prove you can escape the digital. -
Project: A thinking retreat for future’s sake » 26 Mar 2014
As technology hurtles on, our lives are altered in ways we may not understand or accept. Some say that the pace of change is greater than ever and accelerating. Personal efforts to keep up are important for a confident, happy existence. Even those who do keep up often feel aspects of their human faculties wither and warp. -
Testing A Dao For Local Organizing » 20 May 2023
DAOs could help small orgs so we must experiment -
Dao Visions » 14 May 2023
DAOs could be transformational organisational tools, ripe for experiment. -
Why use a DAO in your organisation » 01 May 2023
People often ask “why use a DAO or a blockchain in an organisational context”? -
Lists To Guide Standards » 08 Apr 2024
Curated lists can guide standards in AI and tech -
Larping Ai Regulation » 18 May 2023
Using role-play games to build citizen confidence in regulating AI. -
Spies, Art and Monsters » 26 Oct 2014
The rich and creepy aesthetic of the surveillance state -
Project: Building-in Privacy » 15 Sep 2014
People are blocking their webcams in a desperate, DIY effort to regain privacy. -
Thought: Beyond annotations » 28 Jul 2014
Annotations will supersede comments systems. The decentralized implementation also offers novel applications to further enrich the web as we know it. -
Thought: Web reputation as credit and more » 23 Jun 2014
The reputation economy will soon create new and unknown mechanisms of value.