Summ( )n Futures
@summ0n.bsky.social
We summon the futures, to play with them now.
http://summon-futures.com
http://summon-futures.com
I feel this stream has been a bit abandoned lately - well, summer break etc, all understandable. A good way to restart is to share the news about our recent presentation at the Amsterdam Trust Summit. We introduced our new Dynamic #Trust Assessment Toolkit, freshly minted and ready to use!
September 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I feel this stream has been a bit abandoned lately - well, summer break etc, all understandable. A good way to restart is to share the news about our recent presentation at the Amsterdam Trust Summit. We introduced our new Dynamic #Trust Assessment Toolkit, freshly minted and ready to use!
I wrote about our #Futures of Trust(s) session a while ago tinyurl.com/2n2r5cu6 It was all nice and interesting but also quite generic, more like a promise. We run several pilot sessions and can share some results - see the new deck about Trust(s) in Transition tinyurl.com/mwt37su3
July 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote about our #Futures of Trust(s) session a while ago tinyurl.com/2n2r5cu6 It was all nice and interesting but also quite generic, more like a promise. We run several pilot sessions and can share some results - see the new deck about Trust(s) in Transition tinyurl.com/mwt37su3
This blog has actually triggered me to look back and restart (and restore) my old #streetphotography project, cea +/- (centralasian.tumblr.com). I run it for years but abandoned it in the last two years (not the picture-taking, but the sharing part)
May 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This blog has actually triggered me to look back and restart (and restore) my old #streetphotography project, cea +/- (centralasian.tumblr.com). I run it for years but abandoned it in the last two years (not the picture-taking, but the sharing part)
#ETHDam 25 was super interesting but also hyper-intensive and led to a bit of overload in my head; tried to blog in real-time but failed :( - will come back to this story after a bit. Meanwhile, more of the recent #streetphotography / #streetethnography
May 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#ETHDam 25 was super interesting but also hyper-intensive and led to a bit of overload in my head; tried to blog in real-time but failed :( - will come back to this story after a bit. Meanwhile, more of the recent #streetphotography / #streetethnography
Summ( )n is all about ‘futures’. We summon them, sense their signals, and help others make sense of them. We even design them (or design for them).
I’ve been part of this field of futuring for ~ 30 years now, so maybe it's a bit late to admit this but I’ve always felt very uneasy with the F-word.🧵
I’ve been part of this field of futuring for ~ 30 years now, so maybe it's a bit late to admit this but I’ve always felt very uneasy with the F-word.🧵
May 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Summ( )n is all about ‘futures’. We summon them, sense their signals, and help others make sense of them. We even design them (or design for them).
I’ve been part of this field of futuring for ~ 30 years now, so maybe it's a bit late to admit this but I’ve always felt very uneasy with the F-word.🧵
I’ve been part of this field of futuring for ~ 30 years now, so maybe it's a bit late to admit this but I’ve always felt very uneasy with the F-word.🧵
The original format of my +/- stream on Tumblr was actually always an intermix of 'people pics' (b/w as a rule) and 'technology pics'. The latter could be interpreted ve-e-e-ery broadly, of course :) #streetphotography
April 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The original format of my +/- stream on Tumblr was actually always an intermix of 'people pics' (b/w as a rule) and 'technology pics'. The latter could be interpreted ve-e-e-ery broadly, of course :) #streetphotography
Amusingly, and even though Summ( )n is all about 'futuring', Understanding People, understanding now is as important as the future track. And that part is very much informed by the pictures that we take. Guess what? The most active followers of Summ( )n here at BSky are ... #streetphotographers!
April 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Amusingly, and even though Summ( )n is all about 'futuring', Understanding People, understanding now is as important as the future track. And that part is very much informed by the pictures that we take. Guess what? The most active followers of Summ( )n here at BSky are ... #streetphotographers!
Well, that's not #streetphotography (and it's not even my photo) - someone snapped this during a recent gathering at the TU/e campus in Eindhoven, where I was ‘pitching’ our new program on the Futures of Trust(s) bsky.app/profile/summ... The motto? Prepare for tomorrow, succeed today :)
April 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Well, that's not #streetphotography (and it's not even my photo) - someone snapped this during a recent gathering at the TU/e campus in Eindhoven, where I was ‘pitching’ our new program on the Futures of Trust(s) bsky.app/profile/summ... The motto? Prepare for tomorrow, succeed today :)
I was actually doing #streetphotography very actively. I mean, I still do it, but I stopped sharing the pictures. I used to run a Tumblr with daily posts for years, alas, not anymore. Maybe it's time to start again, using BSky as a new platform
April 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I was actually doing #streetphotography very actively. I mean, I still do it, but I stopped sharing the pictures. I used to run a Tumblr with daily posts for years, alas, not anymore. Maybe it's time to start again, using BSky as a new platform
We've managed to weed out most of the glitches (though not all), and the new website is ready & shining: summon-futures.com. I'm glad to see so much interesting street photography is embedded into its fabric. I think we should make more use of the pictures we take in our 'corporate propaganda'
April 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
We've managed to weed out most of the glitches (though not all), and the new website is ready & shining: summon-futures.com. I'm glad to see so much interesting street photography is embedded into its fabric. I think we should make more use of the pictures we take in our 'corporate propaganda'
We’ve been brewing up something new, and it’s finally ready for testing: our new session on the Futures of Trust(s). Omnipresent lack of trust is the biggest (yet least visible) 'black gorilla' in the room. Let's learn how to live with them. Because without trust, the future stays stuck in the past.
April 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We’ve been brewing up something new, and it’s finally ready for testing: our new session on the Futures of Trust(s). Omnipresent lack of trust is the biggest (yet least visible) 'black gorilla' in the room. Let's learn how to live with them. Because without trust, the future stays stuck in the past.
We’re evolving. Bit by bit, we’ve been working on a pivot in our story about Summ( )n. Our role is still the same, to help teams navigate complexity. Before we expressed that complexity through fractal-inspired language, abstract & pure. We now shift toward more organic, messy and dark complexity.
April 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We’re evolving. Bit by bit, we’ve been working on a pivot in our story about Summ( )n. Our role is still the same, to help teams navigate complexity. Before we expressed that complexity through fractal-inspired language, abstract & pure. We now shift toward more organic, messy and dark complexity.
Rarely does Robert Merton’s 'Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action' get invoked to comment on the current carnage (euphemistically called 'DT phenomenon’) - The honeymoon is over for Trump (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...). Also, I doubt DT is a well-calculating pool player.
March 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Rarely does Robert Merton’s 'Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action' get invoked to comment on the current carnage (euphemistically called 'DT phenomenon’) - The honeymoon is over for Trump (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...). Also, I doubt DT is a well-calculating pool player.
Just the light in the heide earlier today, a magical glowing contre-jour on the sunset. They're expecting snow tomorrow.
January 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just the light in the heide earlier today, a magical glowing contre-jour on the sunset. They're expecting snow tomorrow.
Happy New 2025 Year!
January 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Happy New 2025 Year!
Today, Low’s predictions feel both prescient and humorous, a nice piece of #retrofuturism. They were resurfaced by the research team at Findmypast, an online genealogy site with an impressive side service, searching and clipping articles from historical newspapers www.findmypast.co.uk/collections/
December 31, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Today, Low’s predictions feel both prescient and humorous, a nice piece of #retrofuturism. They were resurfaced by the research team at Findmypast, an online genealogy site with an impressive side service, searching and clipping articles from historical newspapers www.findmypast.co.uk/collections/
Low’s futurism wasn’t just about gadgets; it also revealed a lot about the society. The future 'radio alarm clock' was seen with a horror not because of its tech, but because of possible disruption of the 'sacred' human routine. Predictions often tell us more about the present than the #future.
December 31, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Low’s futurism wasn’t just about gadgets; it also revealed a lot about the society. The future 'radio alarm clock' was seen with a horror not because of its tech, but because of possible disruption of the 'sacred' human routine. Predictions often tell us more about the present than the #future.
Other predictions were less spot-on but still delightfully bonkers:
⚡ Streetlights powered by glowing herbs
🧠 Telepathic mind-to-mind communication
👕 Everyone wearing one-piece felt suits
While quirky, these reflect hopes - and anxieties - of a post-WWI society navigating rapid technological changes
⚡ Streetlights powered by glowing herbs
🧠 Telepathic mind-to-mind communication
👕 Everyone wearing one-piece felt suits
While quirky, these reflect hopes - and anxieties - of a post-WWI society navigating rapid technological changes
December 31, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Other predictions were less spot-on but still delightfully bonkers:
⚡ Streetlights powered by glowing herbs
🧠 Telepathic mind-to-mind communication
👕 Everyone wearing one-piece felt suits
While quirky, these reflect hopes - and anxieties - of a post-WWI society navigating rapid technological changes
⚡ Streetlights powered by glowing herbs
🧠 Telepathic mind-to-mind communication
👕 Everyone wearing one-piece felt suits
While quirky, these reflect hopes - and anxieties - of a post-WWI society navigating rapid technological changes
Low's imagination didn’t stop there. His 1925 book The #Future presented a vivid vision of life in 2025, with such predictions as
✅ Communication with each other “by personal radio sets”
✅ Escalators & moving pavements for shopping
✅ Automatic telephones that “always get the right number”
✅ Communication with each other “by personal radio sets”
✅ Escalators & moving pavements for shopping
✅ Automatic telephones that “always get the right number”
December 31, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Low's imagination didn’t stop there. His 1925 book The #Future presented a vivid vision of life in 2025, with such predictions as
✅ Communication with each other “by personal radio sets”
✅ Escalators & moving pavements for shopping
✅ Automatic telephones that “always get the right number”
✅ Communication with each other “by personal radio sets”
✅ Escalators & moving pavements for shopping
✅ Automatic telephones that “always get the right number”