Future Now
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Is technology making us lonely?
Oct 26, 2014 7:05am | by jesse
The human mind seeks out stories to help explain our emotions and behaviors, but sometimes we focus on false causes when the reason lies elsewhere. Technology is an easy target due to its ubiquity in our lives, and for those who cannot appreciate or understand emerging environments its easy to dismiss their potential by focusing […]
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Do you feel empowered by the Internet?
Oct 22, 2014 9:11am | by jesse
There is a paradox to our relationship with the internet when it comes to empowerment and agency. Does it empower us or does it enslave us? Perhaps it depends who you ask. Celebrated filmmaker and one of the “women shaping the 21st century” Tiffany Shlain phrases the answer as more of a challenge: “you’re creating […]
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Almost ready to launch
Oct 1, 2014 3:38pm | by jesse
Future Now is an exciting fusion of the issues contained in two exciting documentary projects, Avatar Secrets, and Life After Digital. We’ve spent the better part of the summer designing, researching, and now writing content to help extend ideas, concepts, and debates beyond these two documentaries into the broader web and public discourse. We hope […]
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Love in the era of the internet is complicated
Sep 21, 2014 8:33pm | by jesse
Love in the era of the internet is complicated. That should come as a surprise to no one. The desire to find and share our lives with others is never ending, and the power to do so exponentially increases in the digital age. We’re no longer limited to the prospective matches in our village or […]