What Future?
@whatfuture2050.bsky.social
The world is changing at break neck speed and we're heading to a very different future. The focus here is on what future we want, the default or one we shape?
(including posts from HumansWLorD on X)
(including posts from HumansWLorD on X)
Today's billionaire tech oligarchs are using their wealth (not "genius") to ensure their dominance into the future. We have to ask the question is such massive power over society in a handful of hands best for our future?
It's not a question that will see any decent airtime on mainstream media.
It's not a question that will see any decent airtime on mainstream media.
June 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Today's billionaire tech oligarchs are using their wealth (not "genius") to ensure their dominance into the future. We have to ask the question is such massive power over society in a handful of hands best for our future?
It's not a question that will see any decent airtime on mainstream media.
It's not a question that will see any decent airtime on mainstream media.
The Uber-ification of Work Is Exploding in Latin America
Gig work is surging delivery, rides, services
New report tracks the boom and the growing risks for workers
No protections. No security. No guarantees.
Is this the model for the Global South?
www.ilo.org/resource/new...
Gig work is surging delivery, rides, services
New report tracks the boom and the growing risks for workers
No protections. No security. No guarantees.
Is this the model for the Global South?
www.ilo.org/resource/new...
April 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The Uber-ification of Work Is Exploding in Latin America
Gig work is surging delivery, rides, services
New report tracks the boom and the growing risks for workers
No protections. No security. No guarantees.
Is this the model for the Global South?
www.ilo.org/resource/new...
Gig work is surging delivery, rides, services
New report tracks the boom and the growing risks for workers
No protections. No security. No guarantees.
Is this the model for the Global South?
www.ilo.org/resource/new...
Can AI Learn to Care?
Social workers deal in trust, emotion, empathy.
Now AI is entering the profession.
UT Austin’s working group is asking:
Should tech be allowed into the most human of jobs?
thedailytexan.com/2025/04/20/s...
Social workers deal in trust, emotion, empathy.
Now AI is entering the profession.
UT Austin’s working group is asking:
Should tech be allowed into the most human of jobs?
thedailytexan.com/2025/04/20/s...
April 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Can AI Learn to Care?
Social workers deal in trust, emotion, empathy.
Now AI is entering the profession.
UT Austin’s working group is asking:
Should tech be allowed into the most human of jobs?
thedailytexan.com/2025/04/20/s...
Social workers deal in trust, emotion, empathy.
Now AI is entering the profession.
UT Austin’s working group is asking:
Should tech be allowed into the most human of jobs?
thedailytexan.com/2025/04/20/s...
"This is what a digital coup looks like."
@carolecadwalla ’s warning on Silicon Valley power and creeping authoritarianism is urgent, terrifying — and right.
The time to reclaim democracy from tech billionaires is now.
Article: www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
@carolecadwalla ’s warning on Silicon Valley power and creeping authoritarianism is urgent, terrifying — and right.
The time to reclaim democracy from tech billionaires is now.
Article: www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
April 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
"This is what a digital coup looks like."
@carolecadwalla ’s warning on Silicon Valley power and creeping authoritarianism is urgent, terrifying — and right.
The time to reclaim democracy from tech billionaires is now.
Article: www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
@carolecadwalla ’s warning on Silicon Valley power and creeping authoritarianism is urgent, terrifying — and right.
The time to reclaim democracy from tech billionaires is now.
Article: www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
Pope Francis on AI and Connection
In his final months, Pope Francis made it clear:
Don’t let AI replace human connection.
Don’t let screens replace solidarity.
Even the Vatican saw the warning signs
Details: www.euronews.com/next/2025/04...
In his final months, Pope Francis made it clear:
Don’t let AI replace human connection.
Don’t let screens replace solidarity.
Even the Vatican saw the warning signs
Details: www.euronews.com/next/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Pope Francis on AI and Connection
In his final months, Pope Francis made it clear:
Don’t let AI replace human connection.
Don’t let screens replace solidarity.
Even the Vatican saw the warning signs
Details: www.euronews.com/next/2025/04...
In his final months, Pope Francis made it clear:
Don’t let AI replace human connection.
Don’t let screens replace solidarity.
Even the Vatican saw the warning signs
Details: www.euronews.com/next/2025/04...
AI's Economic Gains vs. Environmental Costs
AI might boost global GDP by 0.5% a year but at what cost?
Training models consumes gigantic amounts of energy
The climate bill could rival emissions from major countries
Tech gains can't come on a dead planet
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
AI might boost global GDP by 0.5% a year but at what cost?
Training models consumes gigantic amounts of energy
The climate bill could rival emissions from major countries
Tech gains can't come on a dead planet
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
April 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
AI's Economic Gains vs. Environmental Costs
AI might boost global GDP by 0.5% a year but at what cost?
Training models consumes gigantic amounts of energy
The climate bill could rival emissions from major countries
Tech gains can't come on a dead planet
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
AI might boost global GDP by 0.5% a year but at what cost?
Training models consumes gigantic amounts of energy
The climate bill could rival emissions from major countries
Tech gains can't come on a dead planet
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
February 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Agree, climate adaptation should be one of the biggest issues we should be focusing on to deal with the climate future. Yet not a trace of it in the elections in the UK, France and US in 2024. No sign of it appearing in 2025's German election. So if not now then when?
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December 9, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Agree, climate adaptation should be one of the biggest issues we should be focusing on to deal with the climate future. Yet not a trace of it in the elections in the UK, France and US in 2024. No sign of it appearing in 2025's German election. So if not now then when?
tweet via @meadwaj.bsky.social
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Waterworld Britain - Add these two maps together, the areas that will are hardest hit by rainfall floods and burst rivers with ones that will be hit by sea level rise.
Climate change means BOTH a hotter and wetter future. What are the government doing to prepare for this?
Climate change means BOTH a hotter and wetter future. What are the government doing to prepare for this?
November 26, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Waterworld Britain - Add these two maps together, the areas that will are hardest hit by rainfall floods and burst rivers with ones that will be hit by sea level rise.
Climate change means BOTH a hotter and wetter future. What are the government doing to prepare for this?
Climate change means BOTH a hotter and wetter future. What are the government doing to prepare for this?
People in the UK are increasingly exposed to dangerous extreme heat, as global health threats of #climatechange reach record-breaking levels
Article: https://www.itv.com/news/2024-10-29/uk-increasingly-exposed-to-health-threatening-extreme-heat
Article: https://www.itv.com/news/2024-10-29/uk-increasingly-exposed-to-health-threatening-extreme-heat
October 30, 2024 at 8:12 AM
People in the UK are increasingly exposed to dangerous extreme heat, as global health threats of #climatechange reach record-breaking levels
Article: https://www.itv.com/news/2024-10-29/uk-increasingly-exposed-to-health-threatening-extreme-heat
Article: https://www.itv.com/news/2024-10-29/uk-increasingly-exposed-to-health-threatening-extreme-heat
Valencia is under 2 hours drive away from Brits holiday favourite, Benidorm. The #ClimateCrisis is no longer something that just happens to people thousands of miles away from Europe. The lack of UK media focus on these floods tells its own story.
October 30, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Valencia is under 2 hours drive away from Brits holiday favourite, Benidorm. The #ClimateCrisis is no longer something that just happens to people thousands of miles away from Europe. The lack of UK media focus on these floods tells its own story.
The future is coming hard and fast...
September 28, 2024 at 9:34 PM
The future is coming hard and fast...
September 23, 2024 at 8:22 AM
#ClimateCrisis | We can't carry on as usual, we need radical change
We cannot hope to tackle the mega crisis of climate change without radical change in how we live. This article on why hoping for "a solution" will fail only radical change will do
Story: theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
We cannot hope to tackle the mega crisis of climate change without radical change in how we live. This article on why hoping for "a solution" will fail only radical change will do
Story: theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
September 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM
#ClimateCrisis | We can't carry on as usual, we need radical change
We cannot hope to tackle the mega crisis of climate change without radical change in how we live. This article on why hoping for "a solution" will fail only radical change will do
Story: theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
We cannot hope to tackle the mega crisis of climate change without radical change in how we live. This article on why hoping for "a solution" will fail only radical change will do
Story: theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
What is AI's real carbon footprint?
Details and article: https://x.com/AkshatRathi/status/1826189728904831005
#ClimateCrisis
Details and article: https://x.com/AkshatRathi/status/1826189728904831005
#ClimateCrisis
September 9, 2024 at 12:26 PM
What is AI's real carbon footprint?
Details and article: https://x.com/AkshatRathi/status/1826189728904831005
#ClimateCrisis
Details and article: https://x.com/AkshatRathi/status/1826189728904831005
#ClimateCrisis
The #ClimateCrisis gets a lot of focus as the big force impacting #WhatFuture we'll have. The challenge is that it's not the only crisis, we have a number of crises and forces affecting our future.
September 9, 2024 at 11:28 AM
The #ClimateCrisis gets a lot of focus as the big force impacting #WhatFuture we'll have. The challenge is that it's not the only crisis, we have a number of crises and forces affecting our future.