Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
@sohailfutures.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social
monika bielskyte @monikabielskyte.bsky.social Founder @protopiafutures. From SciFi to reality, prototyping science-informed, life-centric, embodied visions. Fmr Futurist in Residence @Nike.
www.monikafutures.design
Jane McGonigal @janemcgonigal.bsky.social Futurist, game designer, author
Roman Krznaric @romankrznaric.bsky.social Social philosopher, founder @empathymuseum New book HISTORY FOR TOMORROW https://romankrznaric.com TED talk on THE GOOD ANCESTOR http://tinyurl.com/y6779czd
RADAR @radarxyz.bsky.social RADAR is a global collective of curious people thinking about, envisioning, and building better futures in multiplayer mode. https://linktr.ee/radar_xyz
Amy Webb @amywebb.bsky.social CEO of Future Today Strategy Group. Quantitative Futurist. Prof NYU Stern. Author. Cyclist.
Paul Higgins @futuristpaul.bsky.social Futurist, veteran cricketer, board gamer, venture philanthropist. Strong views weakly held (not always successfully), ageing not so gracefully
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social Planetary foresight and personal climate strategies.
Courses: https://alexsteffen.thinkific.com/
Podcast/newsletter: https://alexsteffen.substack.com/
Start here → https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/foresight-is-no-longer-a-luxury
Dr Kobotic @kobotic.bsky.social Doing AI management and governance for a long time (way before it was cool), container ships, democracy and dachshunds. Sometimes sailing. www.kobileins.com
Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social Amnesty Media Award 2014. Cryptoparty. Anti-Robodebt campaigner. Digital rights. Mutant network node herder. Completing a Master of Social Work. Devouring entropy https://www.patreon.com/asherwolf
Eliza Sorensen @elizasorensen.bsky.social local smut peddler, snarky antagonist, koori, disabled, queer, tech policy, founder and recovering sysadmin.
they/she.
Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Jodi Ettenberg @legalnomads.com Once a lawyer, then a celiac travel writer. Now disabled, writing about curiosity & health.
Travel writing & gluten-free guides: legalnomads.com
The best things I read each month: jodiettenberg.substack.com
MCAS, meditation, & health: jodiettenberg.com
Careful Trouble @carefultrouble.bsky.social We are Careful Trouble. We are a research studio and a social enterprise, helping make technologies work better for more people, more of the time.
🌍 carefultrouble.net
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Andrew Sempere @feralresearch.org Computational queer. Arts, culture, design. Riding the global frequency of weird and working on a better future. Sometimes I academic, less so lately.
http://andrewsempere.org
Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social Futurist, Managing Partner: changeist.com.
Project Lead: https://10fconsortium.org
Author: “How to Future” (2020) and “Future Cultures” (2023)
Reviews and previews: collisiondetector.com
Kristin Alford @kristinalford.bsky.social Futurist and Director of MOD.
Alexis Lloyd 🏳️🌈 @alexislloyd.bsky.social Ethical design, weird machines, native Brooklynite. Designing at Google, alum of NY Times, Axios, Medium. She/her
Igor Schwarzmann @igorschwarzmann.com Design Researcher & Strategist. Secretive Futurist. Product of more than one culture which is fancy for Third Culture Kid. More: igorschwarzmann.com. AMA.
Be the Changeist @scoxsmith.bsky.social Partner at Changeist.com
Futures adjacent
Project Lead: https://www.10fconsortium.org/
Contributing Editor: “How to Future” (2020)
Author: “Future Cultures” (2023)
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I hit a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social I write futures. GLASS HOUSES out 13 August 2024. Come fly with us. https://www.madelineashby.com/contact/
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Warren Ellis @warrenellis.bsky.social Musician with peculiar sense of pitch timing and rhythm writer of film music. Plays in Dirty Three and the Bad Seeds. Wrote Nina Simone’s Gum and founded Ellis Park in Sumatra. Two kids two cats and two salamanders
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Genevieve Bell @feraldata.bsky.social Still hanging around at the intersections of tech and culture. Building a new school in oz: https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/
Stewart Brand @stewartbrand.bsky.social Sampling here. Mostly on Twitter still as @stewartbrand.
Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Ethnographer | Clay Artist | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | fiona@whiteowl.net.au | No DMs | whiteowl.net.au
Rayna 🤓🇪🇺👩💻📚✍️ @maliciarogue.bsky.social 💼CEO RS Strategy
✍Award-winning writer
🧠Practitioner in residence @ CIS-CNRS
ex🧬scientist | Amba @DigitalEU | ❤️🚆 | Polylingual
Uncertainty management, strategy, foresight #Infosec #EU #FLOSS
I contain multitudes
📌Elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/maliciarogue
Patrick Tanguay @inevernu.bsky.social Autodidact. Generalist. Synthesist. I write Sentiers, a carefully curated weekly newsletter on the futures of technology, society, and culture. @inevernu@social.coop
📧 https://sentiers.media
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Jake Dunagan @dunagan23.bsky.social Social invention, experiential futures, neuropolitics.
John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social Creative Director & Co-CEO National Videogame Museum, Sheffield, UK
Own views.
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social transition design, service design, design philosophy, finitude
- most of my occasional thinking these days takes advantage of the slightly longer form afforded by the truly awful linkedin, sorry: https://au.linkedin.com/in/cameron-tonkinwise-80a5987
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
usman haque @uah.bsky.social I make • I do • I make do
architect / artist / composer
design/architecture/cities/networked urbanism
HAQUE TAN • @HAQUETAN.bsky.social
🐘 @uah@mastodon.social
https://haque.co.uk/
https://haquetan.com/
https://uah.haque.co.uk/
https://umbrellium.co.uk/
Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human.
Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff
Support: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Critical AI Lab @jwicriticalai.bsky.social Research on data, algorthmic systems and ethics @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Also on YouTube (http://youtube.com/channel/UCytCD), Twitter (@JWI_CriticalAI), and Mastodon (@jwicriticalai.bsky.social)
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Dan Saffer @odannyboy.bsky.social Designer. Author. Professor. Neutral Good Gen Xer. San Franciscan in Pittsburgh. Keeper of the Saffervesence.
@superflux.bsky.social @superflux.bsky.social
TRASHFUTURE @trashfuture.bsky.social Podcast about the bad times
trashfuture.co.uk
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social Museums|music|media|monsters|mayhem - https://linktr.ee/sebchan
Wendy Schultz @wendyinfutures.bsky.social Card carrying futurist (MA, PHD in Futures Studies, University of Hawai’i), Director of Infinite Futures; CoFounder of Jigsaw Foresight; Senior Fellow of the Center for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies. Oxford UK.
Jessica Hische @jessicahische.bsky.social Lettering Artist, Professional Logo Zhuzher, & NYT Best-selling Author. Co-founder of Studioworks—shaping the future of creative business!
studioworks.app
linktr.ee/jessicahische
nicolasnova @nicolasnova.bsky.social Anthropology of digital cultures/technologies and environmental changes, design research, design fiction. Professor at Geneva University of Art & Design (HEAD) / Managing partner girardinnova.com / posts in English et en français
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Allison Hornery @allisonhornery.bsky.social facilitator & babelfish · people, spaces, interactions · skills collector · astro enthusiast
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Cassie Robinson @cassierobinson.bsky.social www.cassierobinson.work
🌳Wealth Pre & Redistribution, Emerging Futures, Imagination Infrastructures, Conscious Closures, Practices for Transition.
🔮Erotic Ecology, Designing with the Other-than-human World, Oracular Bodies and Queer Capacities.
The School of Good Services @theschoolofgood.bsky.social We help organisations get better at designing and delivering services that work for their users
Run by Sarah Drummond and Lou Downe
good.services
David Hoang @davidhoang.com “Sometimes to create, one must first destroy.” AI Atlassian. Previously Replit, Webflow, One Medical, and Black Pixel. Love live the open web. Posts are from the blog: https://blog.davidhoang.com
@gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social
Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social Author of Doughnut Economics, Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Uni Environmental Change Institute. doughnuteconomics.org
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Dan HIll @cityofsound.bsky.social Designer, urbanist &c. Director, Melbourne School of Design + Professor, University of Melbourne + Visiting Prof of Practice, UCL IIPP. Prev.: Vinnova (Swedish Gov), Arup, Future Cities Catapult, SITRA (Finnish Innovation Fund), BBC. FRSA.
Tyler Blackman @tylerb.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo. Interested in the future of work and the changing meaning of work. He/him. I am also active on: @dialogueshg.bsky.social
More here: https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/tblackma
Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder, Lithos Partners. Author, Digital Communications at Work. Gym bore. Gets about a bit.
Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social Filmmaker / Directing #section28film
Founder: anthrobricolage.com
Director: good.services @theschoolofgood
DR of Design, once ran
@wearesnook
Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack
GOOD Magazine #100
Board member at @lomondtrossachs
She/they
Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social Industry-based sociologist and adjunct professor. Future of work. Innovation. Strategic Foresight. Enterprise Software. Ethnography and qual methods. A few books. https://www.samladner.com/
Indy Johar @indyjohar.bsky.social Building the Boring Revolution, Increasingly Co-Intrapreneuring, Co-Founder of darkmatterlabs.org, project00.cc,
Professor, Architect, MBE, FRSA, Non Executive @ opensystemslab.org and Bloxhub.dk
Aarathi Krishnan @aarathikrishnan.bsky.social Executive Director at RAKSHA Intelligence Futures | Affiliate Cambridge Centre for Existential Risk | Ex UNDP, IFRC | Alumni Tech & Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School & Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
https://www.rak-sha.com
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
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