History should have cured us of the fantasy that better tools automatically make better futures. Ideas have consequences. Yet we still teach the past as a sequence of events: this happened, then that, then something else. As though it simply happened to us. 1/ youtube.com/shorts/ZYzBu...

Al cannibalism starts when the machine learns from its own leftovers. Degenerative Al is what happens when synthetic output sludge becomes the diet of systems pretending to understand reality.1/2 #ModelCollapse #Enshittification

I was interviewed by @Gizmodo during my last Tokyo visit. And the piece also features new portraits by my favorite South African photographer trio. Read more in: www.gizmodo.jp/article/moni...

The future is not being “shaped by technology.” It is shaped by what we fund, build, teach, normalize, ignore, resist — and imagine. Our apathy shapes it too. New TikTok on how we can all participate in Protopian futures, beyond doomscroll collapse and sci-fi despair. vt.tiktok.com/ZSxC8W5vT/

Foresight calibrated to a minority fraction of the world’s population is parochial practice cosplaying as global strategy. open.substack.com/pub/monikabi...

A livable future cannot be produced by treating the living world as an externality. Life-Centric Design turns this understanding into a design condition. Good design does not stop at the isolated user — it has to account for the life systems that humans depend on. open.substack.com/pub/monikabi...

Those who redesign the fantasy can redesign the future. Can we prototype futures that fully address the broken status quo, while also reaching past its boundaries? open.substack.com/pub/monikabi...

Feed AI slop and it scales rot. Without corrective choices, it becomes a culture-eating machine speedrunning enshittification aka platform decay: more content, less trust; more speed, less memory; more output, less reality. The answer is human guidance at every level: vt.tiktok.com/ZSx1j4jWD/

It all starts with a vision. But not everything that seems futuristic, actually is. Do we want to inhabit somebody else’s outdated fantasy, or do we want a FUTURE that is actually inhabitable? vt.tiktok.com/ZS9Q747yG/

VFX talent, filmmakers, production designers and XR/AI tool developers: I am researching a piece on how technical VFX constraints defined sci-fi aesthetics that have in turn shaped what we see as real futures – and how is AI changing that if at all. www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...

Equality, I guess. Via @dazeddigital.com

Too often future gets presented as something that happens to, through, and because of technology. But the future really happens to, through, and because of our bodies. Biology is the real future frontier. More on my upcoming talk and #EmbodiedFutures framework in www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...

Ryan Coogler is hands down the most influential director defining the future of film today — not just his movies but how he MOVES to bring them into the world. Not just generational talent but generational CHANGE — AI could never replicate the meaning of THIS:

« For all the striking similarities between Trump and Putin, there is a fundamental difference between them. Trump is a product of abundance, Putin is the product of scarcity. » Via Volodymyr Yermolenko of @ukraineworld.bsky.social

Killing your own really continues being history’s safest option 🫠

Not everything that sounds futuristic actually is. Biohacker techbros have hijacked too much of longevity discourse and skewed our priorities for biomedical research — misdirecting the attention away from the solid science towards escapist fantasies. Read more in www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...

Who defines what we consider future worthy? Whose values & priorities are assumed to be the default? & How it can misdirect us away from what IS futuristic to what simply appears futuristic. Scifi doesn’t always open our imagination, it can also narrow it down: www.linkedin.com/posts/quest-...

@forbes.com Brazil feature as seen in an elevator somewhere in São Paulo. Translate & read the whole article in: forbes.com.br/forbes-tech/...

@swordsjew.bsky.social brilliant book Wild Faith immediately comes to mind

Genuinely excited about embarking on this journey: www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...

Will Trump try get his second VP hanged too?

Join Protopia Futures x Climate Spring storyworld design workshop next Wednesday as part of #HollywoodClimateSummit. Free virtual access so RSVP asap: www.hollywoodclimatesummit.com/schedule-2025

In the most unsurprising development of events Tr*mp regime is following in the footsteps of other authoritarian regimes are attempting to elimininate (or at least partially crush) Wikipedia now 😒 open.spotify.com/episode/7wNz...

This is so illustrative why state funding of biomedical research (& tech) is vital & should not be left entirely profit driven venture model: open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6...

Dystopia as product roadmap: America prototypes its fictions so it can live them @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

America is a superpower & now it also very much a superproblem. Russia, although NOT a superpower, remains a superproblem. Don’t equate lack of constructive capacity with lack of destructive capacity. Think of how jointly, the superproblems amplify & multiply. Cc @youranoncentral.bsky.social

Mind you, Asimov the “great Scifi author” was a sex pest, yet one of his best insights was not about robot futures but about the human futures of USA & its hatred for intellectualism in favor of cheap scams

Disgusted by Varoufakis (supposed extreme leftist) carrying water BOTH for extreme right le pen AND erdogan!!!!! Comparing le pen’s charges & judicial process to imamoglu’s is beyond insulting. Truly gross political cosplaying that seems lunatic unless seen as paid for by the Kremlin all along

Nail on the head