Can you imagine the world in 2125?
www.22ndcenturyhub.com
The future happens, whether you imagine it or not. But imagination help us shape it. Timescaping is the practice of imagining aspects of society 100 years into the future, a horizon far enough to transcend current trends, yet close enough to feel like an extension of today. By stretching our imagination beyond current trends, we train ourselves to think flexibly in a world that’s changing faster than ever.

Hi everyone, I am developing a project to help people engage in constructive conversations about certain aspects of society 100 years in the future. I woud be very grateful if you could let me know which one of the 8 prompt on this website (https://www.22ndcenturyhub.com/) I have develop you find more interesting (you can also engage in a conversation with the AI, as I built in a GPT API). That would help me in further developing more prompts, I have about 60 at the moment. Thanks a lot in advance!

  • ChrononautOPEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Thanks a lot for this very valuable input. The intent of my project is not to work in the space of predicting the future, but more in giving agency to people from different areas of expertise to engage in the practice of imagining the future, which sets in motion very interesting conversations about people’s value, how they see society today and of course also (sometimes) valuable inputs on what the future might hold.

    • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 days ago

      People having conversation with each other of people having a conversation with ai?

      • ChrononautOPEnglish
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        11 days ago

        The website is for now a way to start engaging in a conversation with AI, but what I am focussing on is to let people engage in conversation with each other IRL.

        • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
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          11 days ago

          Like you would use conversation cards? Or would those people not use the website during their conversation?

          • ChrononautOPEnglish
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            11 days ago

            Yes conversations cards, where what you read it’s pretty much what you read in one of the 8 prompts you can see on the website. So far I have about 50-60. But not all of them are high quality or interesting or somehow the right ones

            • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
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              11 days ago

              Cool, wasn’t immediately clear to me when I opened the website but I did again just now and seems like fun questions to talk about!

              • ChrononautOPEnglish
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                11 days ago

                Ok nice to hear! Which one of the 8 picks your interest the most?

                • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  11 days ago

                  One that triggers me is the one about post work society, because it reminds me of the work of a Dutch artist who died 20 years ago, he believed that one day humans no longer would have to work and he made models and drawings of what he called New Babylon. https://stichtingconstant.nl/constant/periods/new-babylon-1956-1974

                  I find looking at the future also very interesting if you look not from here but from a place in the past. Just like 2001: A Space Odyssey, of this man (Kubrick) who envisioned the time we live in now very differently as to what it actually turned out to be.

                  But to me honest, I would probably end up talking about the steps that lay before us now (the next 5-25 years) than actually imagine myself if I lived a 100 years from now; don’t know why that is.

                  • ChrononautOPEnglish
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                    10 days ago

                    Nice thanks a lot for sharing, also about New Babylon. I can imagine. One of the reason why I use 100 as a timeframe is to give permission to participants to really let their imagination go “wild”. I understand the value of also doing the next 5 to 25.