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  ReFi Villages: Web3-Enabled Communities for People and Planet

  mirror.xyz

  Hello everyone! Monty here with a cross-section of Web3, ReFi, & Ecovillage experts to bring you the first article to define and explore the emerging …

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  Mapping the future(s)

  wordpress.com - thenextwavefutures

  I was teaching futures at the SOIF Summer Retreat last summer, and that sent me back to scanning frameworks, and from there to Richard Slaughter’s …

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  How To Govern The World Without World Government

  Noema Magazine

  Forget globalist fantasies — voluntary cooperation among nation-states is the only way humanity can survive, says Brazilian philosopher Roberto Unger. …

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  Our Puny Human Brains Are Terrible at Thinking About the Future

  slate.com - Jane McGonigal

  And that has consequences. Our future selves are strangers to us. This isn’t some poetic metaphor; it’s a neurological fact. FMRI studies suggest that …

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  Feminism is a theme in contemporary Chinese science fiction - Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages

  uio.no

  “Originally science fiction was a hobby for a minority group. Today there are more companies willing to invest in science fiction, and the government …

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  Designing the future: how Superflux is demystifying speculative design

  designweek.co.uk - By Abbey Bamford

  Superflux founders Anab Jain and Jon Ardern show us how their experiential, speculative design practice has evolved and how it examines our …