monika bielskyte
@monikabielskyte.bsky.social
Founder @protopiafutures. Futurist in Residence @Nike. From SciFi to reality, prototyping science-informed, life-centric, joyful visions of tomorrow.
www.monikafutures.design
www.monikafutures.design
Not everything that sounds futuristic actually is. Biohacker techbros have hijacked too much of longevity discourse and skewed our priorities for biomedical research — misdirecting the attention away from the solid science towards escapist fantasies.
Read more in www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...
Read more in www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Not everything that sounds futuristic actually is. Biohacker techbros have hijacked too much of longevity discourse and skewed our priorities for biomedical research — misdirecting the attention away from the solid science towards escapist fantasies.
Read more in www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...
Read more in www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...
Who defines what we consider future worthy? Whose values & priorities are assumed to be the default?
& How it can misdirect us away from what IS futuristic to what simply appears futuristic.
Scifi doesn’t always open our imagination, it can also narrow it down:
www.linkedin.com/posts/quest-...
& How it can misdirect us away from what IS futuristic to what simply appears futuristic.
Scifi doesn’t always open our imagination, it can also narrow it down:
www.linkedin.com/posts/quest-...
September 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Who defines what we consider future worthy? Whose values & priorities are assumed to be the default?
& How it can misdirect us away from what IS futuristic to what simply appears futuristic.
Scifi doesn’t always open our imagination, it can also narrow it down:
www.linkedin.com/posts/quest-...
& How it can misdirect us away from what IS futuristic to what simply appears futuristic.
Scifi doesn’t always open our imagination, it can also narrow it down:
www.linkedin.com/posts/quest-...
@forbes.com Brazil feature as seen in an elevator somewhere in São Paulo. Translate & read the whole article in:
forbes.com.br/forbes-tech/...
forbes.com.br/forbes-tech/...
September 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@forbes.com Brazil feature as seen in an elevator somewhere in São Paulo. Translate & read the whole article in:
forbes.com.br/forbes-tech/...
forbes.com.br/forbes-tech/...
@swordsjew.bsky.social brilliant book Wild Faith immediately comes to mind
September 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
@swordsjew.bsky.social brilliant book Wild Faith immediately comes to mind
July 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Will Trump try get his second VP hanged too?
June 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Will Trump try get his second VP hanged too?
Join Protopia Futures x Climate Spring storyworld design workshop next Wednesday as part of #HollywoodClimateSummit. Free virtual access so RSVP asap:
www.hollywoodclimatesummit.com/schedule-2025
www.hollywoodclimatesummit.com/schedule-2025
May 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Join Protopia Futures x Climate Spring storyworld design workshop next Wednesday as part of #HollywoodClimateSummit. Free virtual access so RSVP asap:
www.hollywoodclimatesummit.com/schedule-2025
www.hollywoodclimatesummit.com/schedule-2025
In the most unsurprising development of events Tr*mp regime is following in the footsteps of other authoritarian regimes are attempting to elimininate (or at least partially crush) Wikipedia now 😒
open.spotify.com/episode/7wNz...
open.spotify.com/episode/7wNz...
May 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In the most unsurprising development of events Tr*mp regime is following in the footsteps of other authoritarian regimes are attempting to elimininate (or at least partially crush) Wikipedia now 😒
open.spotify.com/episode/7wNz...
open.spotify.com/episode/7wNz...
This is so illustrative why state funding of biomedical research (& tech) is vital & should not be left entirely profit driven venture model:
open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6...
open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6...
May 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is so illustrative why state funding of biomedical research (& tech) is vital & should not be left entirely profit driven venture model:
open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6...
open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6...
Dystopia as product roadmap: America prototypes its fictions so it can live them
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Dystopia as product roadmap: America prototypes its fictions so it can live them
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
America is a superpower & now it also very much a superproblem. Russia, although NOT a superpower, remains a superproblem. Don’t equate lack of constructive capacity with lack of destructive capacity. Think of how jointly, the superproblems amplify & multiply.
Cc @youranoncentral.bsky.social
Cc @youranoncentral.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
America is a superpower & now it also very much a superproblem. Russia, although NOT a superpower, remains a superproblem. Don’t equate lack of constructive capacity with lack of destructive capacity. Think of how jointly, the superproblems amplify & multiply.
Cc @youranoncentral.bsky.social
Cc @youranoncentral.bsky.social
Mind you, Asimov the “great Scifi author” was a sex pest, yet one of his best insights was not about robot futures but about the human futures of USA & its hatred for intellectualism in favor of cheap scams
April 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Mind you, Asimov the “great Scifi author” was a sex pest, yet one of his best insights was not about robot futures but about the human futures of USA & its hatred for intellectualism in favor of cheap scams
Disgusted by Varoufakis (supposed extreme leftist) carrying water BOTH for extreme right le pen AND erdogan!!!!! Comparing le pen’s charges & judicial process to imamoglu’s is beyond insulting. Truly gross political cosplaying that seems lunatic unless seen as paid for by the Kremlin all along
March 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Disgusted by Varoufakis (supposed extreme leftist) carrying water BOTH for extreme right le pen AND erdogan!!!!! Comparing le pen’s charges & judicial process to imamoglu’s is beyond insulting. Truly gross political cosplaying that seems lunatic unless seen as paid for by the Kremlin all along
Nail on the head
March 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Nail on the head
« America is Russia’s proxy war against China. » Jenka Gurfinkel @jenka.bsky.social in 2017
If only mfs doing the westsplaining would have listened to us, aka people who know Russia IN OUR BONES
If only mfs doing the westsplaining would have listened to us, aka people who know Russia IN OUR BONES
March 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
« America is Russia’s proxy war against China. » Jenka Gurfinkel @jenka.bsky.social in 2017
If only mfs doing the westsplaining would have listened to us, aka people who know Russia IN OUR BONES
If only mfs doing the westsplaining would have listened to us, aka people who know Russia IN OUR BONES
Kendrick opened in a pose reminding Kaepernick: “The revolution will be televised, you picked the right time, but the wrong guy” —while 🍊 🤡 sat there in the audience — knowing extremely well that even his celebrity status mitht not protect him from the increasigly vengeful assault of this admin. 1/
February 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Kendrick opened in a pose reminding Kaepernick: “The revolution will be televised, you picked the right time, but the wrong guy” —while 🍊 🤡 sat there in the audience — knowing extremely well that even his celebrity status mitht not protect him from the increasigly vengeful assault of this admin. 1/
Biology, rather than silicon or rockets, is the real future frontier. We urgently need to emancipate ourselves from the outdated future fictions & the tech gazillionaires that are holding us hostage to them.
Further reading: www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...
Watch the talk youtu.be/K1QybobHyAo?...
Further reading: www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...
Watch the talk youtu.be/K1QybobHyAo?...
February 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Biology, rather than silicon or rockets, is the real future frontier. We urgently need to emancipate ourselves from the outdated future fictions & the tech gazillionaires that are holding us hostage to them.
Further reading: www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...
Watch the talk youtu.be/K1QybobHyAo?...
Further reading: www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...
Watch the talk youtu.be/K1QybobHyAo?...
Tesla & AI stocks popping on the horizon, not too far past the hill of tariff lunacy? At this point it really is make China great again 🫠
February 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Tesla & AI stocks popping on the horizon, not too far past the hill of tariff lunacy? At this point it really is make China great again 🫠
Informative episode on the current Ukraine-Poland disagreements. Kremlin is trying to weaponize the historical trauma with its usual divide & rule tactics. To give into it, is to serve straight into Russia’s hands, with dire consequences to us all:
spotify.link/3zPXbA4nCDb
spotify.link/3zPXbA4nCDb
October 4, 2023 at 8:52 AM
Informative episode on the current Ukraine-Poland disagreements. Kremlin is trying to weaponize the historical trauma with its usual divide & rule tactics. To give into it, is to serve straight into Russia’s hands, with dire consequences to us all:
spotify.link/3zPXbA4nCDb
spotify.link/3zPXbA4nCDb
Watch my latest talk PROTOPIA Futures vs TESCREAL Visions of Tech Rapture — on the alternative future visions to the dystopian/techno-utopian futurism propped up by eschatological tech theologies:
videos.theconference.se/monika-biels...
videos.theconference.se/monika-biels...
September 21, 2023 at 6:43 PM
Watch my latest talk PROTOPIA Futures vs TESCREAL Visions of Tech Rapture — on the alternative future visions to the dystopian/techno-utopian futurism propped up by eschatological tech theologies:
videos.theconference.se/monika-biels...
videos.theconference.se/monika-biels...