🔮🛸👹 10 IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE 👹🛸🔮

Let's walk through some kinda-sorta wild ideas of what would be nice to have in the future. Don't call this a forecast!!

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There are two truths that I hold, an angel on one shoulder and a demon on the other: my angel is knowing that trend “prediction” is stupid, pointless, and an act horny for attention, which is how companies like McKinsey and WGSN profit, in the service of industry and stakeholders versus creativity and thought; my devil is that there is a thrill in trying to divine “what’s next,” in taking the gamble in embracing and claiming that X is Y, that 1 is 2, that pee is poo in the name of trying to effectively say “FIRST!!” the loudest.

I say this every time predictions come up, typically with start-of-year forecasts, and I’m saying it again as I have been longing to know what’s next, less in the sense of trying to “claim” something could be next and more to theorize, fantasize, and manifest change. As was written this week in relationship to the sick-and-twisted new Camila Cabello song, culture seems to be stagnating, repeating itself over and over again: so much is extremely boring right now, which has less to do with there being a lot of talented people or there being “too much content” but that we’re on a hamster wheel and nothing “new” seems to be happening. Something has to give!! This cannot be “it” and I am doubtful that the best of culture is behind us (or that technologies like AI are the “solution”).

Thus, I put on a fabulous thinking cap and tried to imagine ten things that could help push culture forward, things that could break various dams that are holding us back. I will provide evidence of what’s stagnant now and what could serve as a solution. Does this mean buy stock in X, Y, Z item? No. Does that mean you can take these ideas and run with them? Maybe (unless you are going to use them for profit, in which case…give this baby commission and let’s donate funds to a better planet). Act on these items at your own risk! This is me trying to use writer-brain to imagine possibilities and have some fun. Walk with me, angels. Let’s envision some excitement in this world!

The revolution will happen while networking.

• Problem? Social media sucks now. We hate our jobs. Do these things overlap?

• Solution? I think this is obvious: what starts with shitposting on LinkedIn and increased (younger) activity on the platform will end with a revolution taking place, undoing the working world from within — by using the structures of social media dedicated to “work” to undo it. Why network when you can work together to bring down the stakeholders? It seems obvious! And would finally put the worst social network, the dad-zone of all dad-zones, to good use.

Stick it in the neighborhood.

• Problem? Men and women aren’t dating. Wall Street is buying up entire neighborhoods and billionaires are buying up cities. These two things aren’t connected…are they??

• Solution? Beyond people getting gay af, I do think that we’re going to see this collide with, say, people’s anger with the working world. Case in point: people buying houses and investing in property with friends. What would be fabulous — and entirely possible — is people doing what the rich are doing in more co-opt ways: buying up entire neighborhoods and buildings, turning to more group-owned structures that advance group-ownership to pluralize places and spaces in an effort to undo “landlords,” NIMBY-ism, and the like. This will also collide with the rise in interest in urban planning (A hot job!!) and different ways to structure life and the seeking of third spaces, all of which are subconscious ways to solve the loneliness epidemic and the trouble with relationships now. Why marry one person when you can all invest creating a new take on a commune? It’s the new American dream, especially for Millennials.