Pathway 4 of 8 · 8 posts · about 84 minutes of reading
A third orientation between techno-utopian and techno-doom: collective decision about what tools are for.
💡 If this is you: Readers caught between techno-utopian and techno-doom framings; changemakers, designers, policy people, social-enterprise leaders.
The question this pathway answers: If institutions, economies, and technologies are reshaping the world around us, what kinds of futures are actually worth participating in?
1. What To Do When the Problem Feels Bigger Than Your Imagination
Sunday · Complexity · about 7 min
Names social innovation paralysis and gives the reader something to do with it.
2. Remembering to Turn On the Light
Sunday · Human-Centred Leadership · about 7 min
Hope as the precondition for participation — you can't get to 'what next' without first establishing there's a place for the reader in it.
Sunday · AI and Work · about 12 min
The conceptual centre: craftivism, the sourdough moment, solarpunk vs Ready Player One. Who decides what tools are for.
Tuesday · Synthetic Reality · about 10 min
Technology as the human psyche leaving the body; every tool carries a theory of the human.