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Alexandra Whittington
@alexandra4casts.bsky.social
Futurist, author, speaker
FUTUROLOGY BLOG
https://partnersinforesight.blogspot.com/
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Our singer @joostvervoort.bsky.social is working on a video game about making corporates pay for destroying the planet, together with some of the best people in the game industry (Horizon games, 80 Days, Doom: the Dark Ages and more). www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SCa... Follow: @allwillrise.bsky.social
All Will Rise - Official Kickstarter Trailer | Wholesome Direct 2025
YouTube video by GameTrailers
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October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Well, They’ve Gone and Done It. They Made a Home Servant Robot.
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Well, They've Gone and Done It. They Made a Home Servant Robot.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”
The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies
AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Researchers sequence a patient's genome in record-breaking time
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Researchers sequence a patient's genome in record-breaking time - UPI.com
twp.ai
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New to #Foresight and #Futures Studies? I just read a terrific article on the evolution of the field, truly an impressive overview citing some of the best sources. Highly recommend! Brilliant schema describing different forms of Foresight. #Futurist #Future #Futurology
www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12...
The Story of Futures Studies: An Interdisciplinary Field Rooted in Social Sciences
This article presents the almost century-long history of the development of futures studies in a comprehensive review. Futures studies, rooted in sociology and policy sciences, had become an academic discipline by the 1960s. One of the major global communities representing the discipline, the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023. In the 1970s, the focus was placed on discourses on global problems and preferred futures. Futures studies then developed a global institutional community and become a mature discipline by the 1980s and 1990s. Futurists by then had already mutually shared theoretical perspectives, objectives, ethics, and methods, and had produced empirical results. A wide range of comprehensive publications at that time synthesized the foundations and preceding results of futures studies. From the turn of the millennium, active discourse took place on the forthcoming role of futures studies. By that time, the theoretical, methodological, and practical knowledge foundations of the discipline had also appeared in internationally well-documented curricula. Since around 2010, the discipline has been characterized by the development of practical foresight projects. Based on notable trends and identified research gaps, this article formulates up-to-date expectations and research directions within which futures studies might develop in the future.
buff.ly
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Adobe predicts AI-assisted online shopping to grow 520% during the 2025 US holiday season |
Adobe predicts AI-assisted online shopping to grow 520% during the 2025 US holiday season | TechCrunch
The company expects consumers to largely use AI for research ahead of purchases, based on a survey of 5,000 U.S. consumers — 53% of whom said they may use AI services for this purpose.
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October 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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💡Lights On
With Jessica Denson

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 

"If you think you are going to SILENCE US, you are SORELY mistaken."

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RAIDS & EVICTS
Major Impeachment 
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October 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era
In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support
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October 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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September 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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The Extraordinary Story of the Teen Who Can Mentally ‘Time Travel’
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The Extraordinary Story of the Teen Who Can Mentally ‘Time Travel’
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September 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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In the absence of any major breakthroughs that significantly extend human life, life expectancy will not match the rapid increases seen in the early 20th century even if adult survival improved twice as fast as modeling predicts it to. phys.org/news/2025-08...
Longevity gains slowing with life expectancy of 100 unlikely, study finds
A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed significantly, a...
phys.org
September 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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This Teen's iPhone Called 911 by Itself After Severe Crash, Saves Her Life:

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This Teen's iPhone Called 911 by Itself After Severe Crash, Saves Her Life
Obliterating her car against two poles and a tree, the phone knew what had happened and immediately called 911 emergency services.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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So far, the main businesses that have been financially benefited from AI have been the producers of blue books
www.wsj.com/business/cha...
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
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August 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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After entering the workforce in record numbers post-pandemic, women — especially mothers — are now leaving jobs as flexibility declines. Share your experience to help inform our reporting on this subject.
Share your story: Are you a woman who’s left the workforce?
Share your experience to help inform our reporting.
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August 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If you followed our series, “Meet #GenBeta” your vote would mean so much. We want to take the storytelling to #SXSW

❤️

Thank you!

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August 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
These are the prompts I pulled for our session at #SXSW 2025, Foresight Improv. But before we can fill the cowboy hat with audience suggestions again, we need votes! Your voice counts ❤️ Use the link, cast a vote for Foresight Improv 🙏
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#Vote #SxSw26 #PanelPicker
August 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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#ResistanceEarth
#BlueEarth

Malaria is surging in Africa due to climate change just as Trump withdrew all U.S. funding to fight the disease. The funding cuts mean fewer supplies, medications and health workers. Thousands will die, most of them children under 5.

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U.S. Helped Beat Back Malaria in Guinea. Now, the Disease Is Set To Soar
Guinea—One morning in mid-June, a 10-year-old boy named Mohamed Camara was lying on a bed in a health center in the small Guinean town of Tamita, wearing bright blue shorts and an army-style T-shirt.....
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August 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
My latest blog post on the topic of futurology concerns scanning and scenarios, two of the well-known futurist activities

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#Futurist #Future #Futurology #Foresight #FuturesStudies #Futurism
Invitation to Futurology: A Taxonomy from Scanning to Scenarios
I recently gave an interview to Hilton Barbour, who blogs about organizational culture, on the topic of futurology. Specifically, I had the...
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August 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Meet the NeoIndigenous Hippie Kid, a child growing up in a world where indigenous wisdom and land rights have become the foundation for the green energy transition
#Futurist #Future #Futurology #Foresight #Generations #GenBeta #Childhood #Sustainable #Regenerative

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Introducing Gen Beta: The NeoIndigenous Hippie Kid
Those who inherit indigenous wisdom and land rights become the architects of humanity's regenerative future
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August 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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"Americans now spend nearly four hours a day thinking about money, the equivalent of a part-time job."

If we had universal basic income, we could quit that particular PT job and start thinking about all kinds of other things with that time.
Money on the Mind
Empower’s latest research reveals Americans are spending nearly 4 hours a day thinking about money. For younger generations, it's even more.
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July 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
What if the future of humanity depends not on saving Earth, but on learning to make babies in Space? 🤷‍♀️ 🚀 🌌

Joana Lenkova and I continue our #GenBeta series with perhaps our most mind-bending persona yet!

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#Futurist #Future #Futurism #Futurology
Introducing Gen Beta: The Outer Space Kids
An early cohort of children born in space symbolize hope and limitless possibilities for humanity
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July 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The future of work is already here. Number of adults age 65+ grew 13% in 4 years, while working age adults grew by only 1.4%. www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...
Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States and Nearly Half of U.S. Counties
The U.S. population age 65 and older rose by 3.1% (to 61.2 million) while the population under age 18 decreased by 0.2% (to 73.1 million) from 2023 to 2024.
www.census.gov
June 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM