There may be a misunderstanding here, @Visionofficer. As far as I know, this is not a conference with presentations, but simply a Q&A session about a small writers’ residency we are helping organize (infosheet).
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Also welcome to @nahun, @JCCannon, @Lark, @ereese15, @Davide, @Christa, @lidiazuin, @asifh, @poietic!
Makes plenty of sense, Alexander, both from a narrative point of view and from an economic-theoretical one: we want our macro structures to be founded on micro behavior!
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Looking forward to the info session on this Friday! 
Are you interested in exploring speculative futures or have even done so before? Tell us what inspires your thought experiments and where your interest originates:
I think about it all the time as I specialise in business model innovation.
How did it all start? HG Wells or Robert Heinlein
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I would like to join!
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Are you interested in exploring speculative futures or have even done so before? Tell us what inspires your thought experiments and where your interest originates:
“Moon” was my first word (“Ya-Re-Akh” in Hebrew). My mom tells me I was 7 months old, on the Tel-Aviv beach promenade and I was looking excitedly at the night sky, pointing at the Moon. That was my first step in a journey of exploration, inspiration and awe.
The second step was a foray into the world of Star Trek (age 5, to this day) and then all manner of science fiction, soon thereafter came a fascination with space, scientific research, tech innovation, alongside history, philosophy, ethics, politics, speculative creativity and utopian thinking.
Over time fascination transformed into professional occupation.
At Utopia, Israel’s International Festival for Science Fiction and Fantastic Film (which I co-founded and direct), we merge an international film festival (established in 2005) with an events program emphasizing the mutual inspiration between science and science fiction and the social and philosophical impact of speculative thought – academic conferences, public science talks, tech meetups, workshops, art exhibits etc. More about Utopia here, or on the Utopia Festival website.
Utopia introduced me to more and more amazing thinkers and doers in a myriad of disciplines. Over time a community of like-minded “Futures Practitioners” has emerged, and I am proud to be associated with the many smart and savvy friends and colleagues of this “Future/s” emerging community.
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Would like to participate the 16th of October
Kind regards,
Lene Rachel Andersen
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Are you interested in exploring speculative futures or have even done so before? Tell us what inspires your thought experiments and where your interest originates:
The current economic models I barely understand …actually I don’t, but what I understand even less is the end game of the people that are supposedly winning at this global economic game: the biosphere is deteriorating to possibly irrecoverable levels, the science is been long warning us, so what’s the point of the techno-plutocrat for pressing on with business as usual?
To attempt to answer to this question, and possibly a lot more, maybe a year or so ago I started creating an answer for myself. I am no writer, nor a scientist, nor dungeon master (I was always on the other side or role playing, but I see the commonalities of this world-building task…), but I quite liked the idea of laying out some questions and digging up some answers; I mostly ended up opening cans of worms and exposing my ignorance to the complexity of the world we live in. But it’s fun to draw maps and timelines, and even though I am not planning to apply for the residency, I thought it will be very interesting to hear from other world-building people that are actually doing this more seriously than I.
For tonight, I just registered through Eventbrite, maybe I should let you know here too?
PS: @alberto, how the heck is it possible that so many weird things I love or tinker about, are living topics, with expert knowledge, within the Edgeryders community?! 
I love this place!
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hi all, is this happening now?
I had registered on Eventbrite yesterday, last minute, but didn’t get any zoom detail…
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Same here, I can’t see the link. What are we missing?
Hello @moe, did you get the link in the end?
The event just concluded. You can find the informations about the residency here:
you can post any questions you there as well.
hey @MariaEuler,
yes I got it, thank you. I also read through the main information already but, much like @Alessandro, I was more interested in lurking a bit, as I won’t be able to take 2 weeks off from work unfortunately.
It was good to hear that there’s an option for us to follow the project anyway, though, even if not actively participating in the residency.
I will try and attend the next webinar as well but it’ll be trickier for me, time-wise. It would be nice if next time you could record the session.
Great initiative, as usual, BTW
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Heads up, everyone: following a question asked at the information session of October 16th, we added a paragraph about intellectual property rights to the information sheet. Thank you to @LeneRachelAndersen for raising the issue.
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I saw you in the call, Stefano… good to see you, as always!
Are you interested in exploring speculative futures or have even done so before? Tell us what inspires your thought experiments and where your interest originates:
I was a professional speculative designer at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California for 10 years, generating future-fictional products, postcards, videos, first-person narratives, immersive shops, and many more formats.
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I am very interested in this program. I am working on project maplesync. It is about the futures of economic coordination and deals with the question: “How might we inclusively coordinate, allocate, and plan our economies for mutual prosperity through collective intelligence?”
Project Maplesync is a platform initiative, inspired by the field of cybernetics, to form indicative plans and other information integration functions at different economic scales and contexts.
Maplesync is in its early stages as an open-source project to inspire new thinking on this topic and to generate new experiments in the field, and we are looking for collaborators!
Find out more at www.maplesync.ca, or contact me through twitter @gceh
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Have you been able to record the sesssion?
Unfortunately, I missed it !
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Hello all, thanks for joining the information session, that was fun. Documentation from the session is here. This answers your question, @waeljebri 
Welcome, @futuretester and @gceh22! To the latter: I looked up Maplesync, but I do not yet understand what phase you are in, can you say more about that?
Are you interested in exploring speculative futures or have even done so before? Tell us what inspires your thought experiments and where your interest originates:
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