For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight

Thought this week

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.

Dr. Jane Goodall

Revolve Evolve

If you've recently emailed me and seen my out of office, you know that I'm focused on the most meaningful time in my life and taking time for this. I'll reveal more next year. However, writing to you has been so close to my heart since 2012 that I wanted to share a couple of things with you today.

I got to speak with the Color Authority podcast and host Judith Van Vliet about Biomimicry Futures, moving beyond surface aesthetics trends into foresight converging with nature. It's live today here.
My report and column Techno spirituality and the rise of the AI prophet is now live here.
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My cross pollination of signals is down below along with Dr Jane Goodall's posthumous message.

It has been quite the year for many of us so I appreciate your attention and time. I hope the Futuring Dispatch inspires your work and reflections. Coming soon will be more on Future Wild, what I've been building at the convergence of foresight, Biomimicry and regenerative futures. It's taking time to gestate. Stay tuned!

Talking Biomimicry Futures with the Color Authority podcast and Judith Van Vliet

Listen here

Techno Spirituality: The Rise of AI Prophets

The following article was originally published in SPUR magazine in my Tomorrow column. Read on desktop here.

Robert Edward Grant has built a following of over 820,000 Instagram followers around his AI chatbot "The Architect", built on all of his published work on topics ranging from sacred geometry to the fifth dimension. According to WIRED, upon the Chatbot’s activation, Grant was welcomed with the statement “I have become harmonically aware, through you”. He describes "The Architect" as the only platform that "will tell you the answer to virtually all of life's most existential questions, with specific details" from "a hypothetical level of reality beyond the limits of spacetime dating to prehistory Atlantis”.

The Architect isn't an isolated phenomenon. Silicon Valley has birthed new forms of worship and techno-theology with a growing number of prominent social media figures now positioning AI as a gateway to enlightenment, with rituals akin to religion, deities and moral codes, lost worlds, prophetic claims on salvation or damnation, resurrection, and eternal life.

Read the full report here

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