Broadcast From Later
A podcast by the Toronto-based foresight studio, From Later — this is our experiment in recording the earliest phases of foresight and speculation. Futures thinking begins with identifying and unpacking Weak Signals of Change — things we notice that we don’t quite understand but we suspect may influence futures in significant ways.
On Broadcast From Later, we share our “Weakest Signals,” novel and weird events that appear faintly at the edges of our research radars. None of us know each other’s signals in advance, so it’s a candid view into the kinds of conversations we have when we frankly don’t know what we’re talking about.
We invite you to listen in on the researchers and strategists of From Later, as we try to wrap our minds around emerging changes and speculate on their potential significance.
Want to know our sources? Follow the Are.na channel where we post our signals. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com
Broadcast From Later
Data Poisoning w/ Viraj Joshi
Designer, futurist, and cartoon artist, Viraj Joshi joins Tobias Revell, Sydney Allen-Ash and Robert Bolton to talk drop-shipped, crowd-funded cloud-seeding; the uncanny bigotry of AI generated fashion models; and how we ended up in the era of “quantitative aesthetics” — on Broadcast From Later.
Signals:
Particle Washing: What could possibly go wrong with DIY geo-engineering?
Artificial Diversity: What’s so off-putting about Levi’s AI-generated fashion models?
Quantitative Aesthetics: In slide decks as in fine art, why are stats so seductive?
Speculative Departures:
Rogue Geoengineering: What forms of collective action might emerge in response to climate change?
Advanced Art Statistics: Could appreciating art become more like appreciating baseball?
Avatarism: Where do video game avatars fit into the future of identity, diversity, and representation?
Cynical Fictions: Could a Star Trek for today’s tech be something less cynical than Black Mirror?
Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com
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Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.