Presentation at Salzburg Global Seminar session 593: The Shock of the New.

1. Strategies for reimagining the future.
Salzburg
22 February 2018
Michell Zappa

2. One of the primary causes [of technological somnambulism]
is the way we view technology as tools, something that can
be put down and picked up again.
Because of this view of objects as something we can easily
separate ourselves from we fail to look at the long term
implications of using that object.
Langdon Winner
Technology as forms of life (2004)

3. Technology is neither good nor bad;
nor is it neutral
Melvin Kranzberg

4. 1982

20. Technology Intelligence Platform

23. Organizations
Sources
Industries

24. Desirability
Readiness

25. Readiness

31. Now is the time for reimagining.

32. U

33. Everything is accelerating.

36. “Move fast and break things”
does not scale.

39. The future stands upon the present,
and the present is quicksand.
James Gleick
Time Travel (2016)

40. Thanks for your attention.
@michellzappa