🔮 Roundups #39
Genetic sensors, blockchain-based human registry, and the tug of war between a solar- vs. cyber-punk future
Every Friday I round up 5 technological advancements that give us a Glimpse into the future 🔮 After all, the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
This week on The Glimpse
If you missed it on Tuesday, I wrote about startup cities like Próspera that are sanctioned, city-sized countries within other countries. These startup cities are given the license to experiment with governance in a way that we’ve never seen before. What if we could harness those experiments in governance to test new policies before we roll them out to the entire nation?
Startup Cities | Experiments in Governance
🔮 Glimpse #1 — Genetic sensors for biosafety
https://twitter.com/Ginkgo/status/1679462432773685248?s=20
🔮 Glimpse #2 — Blockchain human registry
A new blockchain-based human registry just launched that attempts to verify your humanness in a privacy-centric way. I suppose in a world with androids indistinguishable from humans à la Bladerunner, this could useful…
https://twitter.com/joinhmn/status/1679560531655667713?s=20
Meanwhile, their competitor co-founded by Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) called Worldcoin just crossed 2M users.
https://twitter.com/worldcoin/status/1679461021650386944?s=20
🔮 Glimpse #3 — Shopify’s AI assistant
ChatGPT caught the world on fire, but I don’t think a general chat bot will be the use case *most* people find themselves interacting with when we think of an AI-powered future. I tend to think it’ll be something more like Shopify’s AI assistant. Deeply integrated, niche AI partners that help you accomplish tasks in context.
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1679114154756669441?s=20
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🔮 Glimpse #4 — The future’s tug of war
The future has an interesting tug of war going on. On the one hand, futurist visions of a clean, safe, natural environment often trend more toward solarpunk.
But on the other hand, cyberpunk dreams are coming to life right now with new construction like The Sphere in Las Vegas.
https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1677365165719969792?s=20
Which future do you dream of?
🔮 Glimpse #5 — Beautiful ≠ useful
Great design is raising the “wow” factor for modern apps but… are the apps just pretty or are they also helpful?
https://twitter.com/raffichill/status/1678103335507836929?s=20
Hope that gave you a little inspiration and wonder as you head into the weekend :)
—Jacob ✌️
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