This first iteration of this foresight brief explores some potential shifts and disruptions that may arise due to generative artificial intelligence technologies in the next five years.
In late 2022, the world saw the release of ChatGPT, a powerful language-processing tool developed by OpenAI. I wondered if ChatGPT could support foresight work, which uses various methods of analyzing signals of change to ...
What changes could shape our capacities, opportunities, and motivation for social connection in the future?
An individual’s life course is made up of all the events and roles that they experience, and the sequence of these, over their entire lifetime. But in our rapidly changing world, the typical life course ...
This video tackles the future of social connection along with three changes and their policy implications: The automation of social connections, our real connections in virtual worlds, and the deepening of social surveillance.
How are our sense-making processes evolving? Here are four changes that affect the way in which we think, make decisions and behave.
In July 2019, Lyft and the Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired at the Media and Accessible Design Lab in San Francisco joined forces to develop a Braille guide explaining how autonomous vehicles work, ...
“Don’t you hate it when you are trying to solve the inverse kinematics equation and you get ‘Error 452 – No Solution Found.’ Don’t you hate it?” That’s the setup for a joke delivered by ...
PDF: Emergence of a Knowing Society On this page Introduction An Information-Rich Reality Drivers of Change What could these advancements offer? Emerging Technologies Narrative Social Impacts Conclusion Introduction The amount of data created every second ...
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