Scott Smith
@changeist
Futurist, Managing Partner: changeist.com. Project Lead: Author: “How to Future” (2020) and “Future Cultures” (2023) Reviews and previews: collisiondetector.com
Why the culture war only exists in your mind. It's not a war if you're the only one fighting it.
One of the 2019 scenarios + artefacts we created for Nesta around community resilience in emergencies was a shared community depot network to respond to wildfires. 😬
Wow it's been 11 years already since I was allowed to commandeer a telepresence robot at Camp Alphaville and remote heckle a speaker. Better days.
Three songs in and the skies opened up, just enough to make it too dangerous to play, then cleared immediately. #canthavenicethungs
We occasionally watch Cozi reruns and laugh like middle school kids when somebody says “What’s up, Dix?”
I’m sure the Belgians don’t appreciate being owned by the Spanish again.
Only in Spain do we have halftime ads where the team are eating jamon in the lock room. Fact: in a typical half of football, your body loses 40% of its tasty pork reserves.
This FT op-ed on why America needs data centers is…not even trying? “Sure you’ll go broke paying for your electricity and not have water, but you’ll get a fewer jobs than an Arby’s over five years or so.”
I guess the Times never heard of Steinbeck. I recently upgraded it. www.collisiondetector.com/temporarily-...