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==== Confabulation ==== | ==== Confabulation ==== | ||
- | working notes fr FF. | + | working notes of Future Fabulators |
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+ | {{future_fabulators: | ||
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+ | “Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous” Dator’s 2nd Law of the Future (Dator 1995) | ||
==== external / rational ==== | ==== external / rational ==== | ||
- | * [[Prediction Markets]] | + | * [[: |
+ | * can we use predictions to help separate/ | ||
+ | * what is the question? can it be answered decisively at a particular point in the future? what is at stake? what are the consequences or impacts? | ||
==== internal / irrational ==== | ==== internal / irrational ==== | ||
* divination / invocation | * divination / invocation | ||
- | ==== software & protocols | + | ==== physical narratives |
- | * open formats > closed formats | + | |
- | * utf-8 > ascii/latin-1/etc+ | + | * Christine Wilks talking about text as a way for developing character depth; [[http://www.riders-project.net/research/ |
- | * documents | + | |
- | * utf-8 text or ODF (libreoffice, openoffice) for editable docs | + | |
- | * pdf for reference & archiving | + | |
- | * [[graph_drawing# | + | |
- | * semi syncronous; email, twitter, irc (freenode | + | |
- | * asyncronous; | + | |
- | * algorithmic sketching; racket, common lisp, python, git | + | |
- | * online | + | |
- | * libarynth -> http:// | + | ====formalised decision making==== |
- | * flickr -> https:// | + | |
- | * vimeo -> http://vimeo.com/fo4m | + | A lot of the scenario planning process has to do with [[Formalised Decision Making]] and how this is done in groups. |
- | * potentially | + | |
- | * tumblr, diasp, other? | + | |
- | * prediction book | + | ==== present |
- | * wikipedia | + | |
- | ==== reading/notes ==== | + | 20140206 Having done several |
- | * various | + | |
- | * bloom, ventus, mars trilogy, incrementalists, | + | Here are a few possible research questions and directions |
- | * "A History of the Future in 100 Objects " >> [[https:// | + | |
- | * 'the culture' ([[Iain M Banks]]) | + | **How to improve the [[prehearsal pocket guide]]?** (notes from February 2014) |
- | * https:// | + | |
- | * [[notes on the culture]] | + | |
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- | * The Hermetic Library reading room >> http:// | + | |
+ | General questions: | ||
+ | * 'but why...' | ||
+ | * how do we encourage a sense of agency amongst the participants when discussing and developing ' | ||
+ | * how do we clarify that what we’re doing is not about predicting the future, but about empowering people to be more aware of their present situation and clarify what they could do today to shape their actions to encourage a preferred possible future? | ||
+ | * what other forms can ' | ||
+ | * what is the shortest and/or longest time in which we can complete meaningful scenario workshops and/or prehearsals to come up with interesting results while keeping the process enjoyable for the participants? | ||
+ | * what other methods, aside from scenario building, are used to discuss possible futures? | ||
+ | * what can we borrow from other fields, such as; improv, |