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1. We Are All
Futurists:
Rethinking and
Retooling for
Possible Digital
Future(s)
Exploring and
disrupting beliefs/norms
around the present and
futures of work and
information decision
systems
Dr. Gigi Johnson
Maremel Institute
2. Retooling
for…what
futures?
●What if we knew “The Future”?
●WHOSE future?
●Are we futures takers or futures
creators?
●What would we retool and rebuild as
individuals and experts making
decisions?
●What would we do within our
organizations?
8. “Cyborg
Anthropology”
Sub-specialty launched at the Annual Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association, associated
with the Committee for the Anthropology of Science,
Technology, and Computing.
How humans and non-human objects interact with
each other, and how that changes culture.
-- Amber Case
1993
9. Fiction and
Movies:
Framing
Future
Experiences
●1982 - Bladerunner –Nov. 2019
timeline
●1984 - The Terminator– Skynet
“ 2:14 a.m. Eastern time on
August 29th 1997”
●1995 - first In Death book by JD
Robb (Nora Roberts) in 2058 NYC
●1999 - The Matrix
●2002 - Minority Report - MIT’s
work spurred Oblong human-
computer interface
●2011 – Ready Player One – in
2045 – 2018 film
●2015 -Ex Machina – 2015
16. “The” Future?
Whose future?
Who is influencing our
perspectives and
choices?
Participative Futuring?
Foresight and trend
analysis as a
consulting business
18. Futuring
Organizations
and Publications
Institute for the Future
World Future Society
Futurist Magazine
Futures Research Quarterly
Journal of Futures Studies (2007-present)
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies (1971-2014)
http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/
19. Institute for the
Future
20 Combintorial
Forecasts
Institute for the Future: http://www.iftf.org/maps/20-combinatorial-forecasts/20-combinatorial-forecasts-map/
22. Our Focus:
Current/Futures
of Information
and
Automation
in/with Work
• Automation
• Digitization
• Augmentation
“Work” –
Individual level
• Remote
• Global
• Collaborative Systems
Workplace
• “Ma” – space in between
• Collaboration
• Gig
• Hiring / Training /
Retention
Systems
31. Data
Management
as 5C’s of the
Future
MIS Quarterly
Research Curations
2022
https://www.misqrese
archcurations.org/blog
/2022/2/11/data-
management
32. How do we
rethink and
retool?
How do we as people, information system
professionals, and thought leaders?
36. Stepping
into the Near
Future
Weak Signals – What is “coming” vs. here
… as I’ve said many times the future is
already here — it’s just not very evenly
distributed.”
-- William Gibson, 1999 NPR interview
37. Big Picture
Issues:
Look at other
sectors for
what already
is happening
Impact of Connected Tech and Data Decision
Systems on…
●Medical care
●Biotech
●Industrial Work
●Agriculture
●Education
●Gig Economy
●Creative Work
●Large Corporations
●Aging
●Transportation
●Digital Home
●Travel/Tourism
●Immigration/Migration
47. On the Good Side:
Augmented
Creativity,
Computational
Creativity and
Creative Systems
●Creative systems: Ben
Shneiderman, Univ. Of
Maryland College Park, defined
it, technologies that allow
more people “to be more
creative more of the time””
●AI to support Business Process
Reingineering – Disney, Fox, ???
●AI to support creative processes
– Fox, Warner Bros. company-
wide systems; embedded in
creative support tools
●DESKILLING and broadening
use by DAWs, game engines,
plugins, and no-code creative
tools
48. So How Do We Retool our
Decision Information
Support Systems for a Digital
Future?
50. What do we
worry from
Near to Far
Futures?
Now
Near
Futures
Far
Futures
51. AI, Big Data,
and Tracking
Customers
●AI and Big Data to connect customers, mass data, and
behaviors
●Datorama BI (now part of Salesforce)
●Pex, with 10,000 servers, scraping and computer
vision detecting audiovisual near real time
●Satellite coverage of parking lots, military, and
agritech
55. And beyond:
Weaponizing
and Filtering
by Beliefs
and
Information
●Propaganda – not new
●Mythopoesis – Finnish Defense Forces tracking a
decade of narrative shifting beliefs about probable
futures
●David Boje – antenarratives – pieces of social stories to
be recrafted into worlds
●Now: Personalized based on attitudes; changing past
and view of the future
●Agnotology – production of ignorance
●Data voids – being filled in by players
●Organized Immaturity – systems reducing our agency
and executive functions by design and marketplace
●2016 – erasing Whitehouse.gov – moved to a different site
●Hyperlinks – not permanent views and shares of the
past
●My brief time in ICANN – Brazil and Russia looking to
create separate Internets
● “Frictionless” autonomous car environments
56. Tristan Harris’
Solutions –
Designing Systems
to Value our
Time
●https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-technology-
hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-
google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3
57. What do we
know…and
how do we
work in the
Gaps?
And help our
organizations
build Decision
Resilliance?
Now
Near
Futures
Far
Futures
58. The Industries of the Future
(2016), Alex Ross
Algorithms to Live By: The
Computer Science of Human
Decisions (2016), Brian
Christian, Tom Griffiths
The Master Algorithm (2016), Pedro
Domingos
Data and Goliath: The Hidden
Battles to Collect Your Data and
Control Your World (2015), Bruch
Rise of the Robots: Technology
and a Threat of a Jobless Futures
(2016), Martin Ford
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and
Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
(2014), Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight
for a Human Future at the New Frontier of
Power (2019), Shoshana Zuboff
Weapons of Math Destruction:
How Big Data Increases Inequality and
Threatens Democracy (2016), Kathy O’Neil
Books 1
59. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers,
Strategies (2016), Nick Bostrom,
Future of Humanity Institute
Possible Minds: 25 Ways of
Looking at AI (2019), ed. John
Brockman
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12
Technological Forces That Will Shape
Our Future (2016), Kevin Kelly
Superforecasting: The Art and
Science of Prediction (2016)
Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Future Babble: Why Expert
Predictions are Next to
Worthless, and You Can Do
Better (2011), Daniel Gardner
The Future: A Very Short
Introduction (2017),
Jennifer Gidley
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence (2018), Max
Tegmark (MIT)
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon
Valley, and the New World Order
(2018), Kai-Fu Lee
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing
Our Digital Future (2017 ), Andrew
McAfee, Erik Berynholfsson
Shaping the Future of the Fourth
Industrial Revolution (2018) Klaus
Schwab, Nicholas Davis, Satya
Nadella
61. Related
Research
●Smartphone owners interact with their phones an average of 85
times a day, including immediately upon waking up, just before
going to sleep, and even in the middle of the night
(Perlow 2012; Andrews et al. 2015; dscout 2016).
●Ninety-one percent report that they never leave home without
their phones (Deutsche Telekom 2012),
●46% say that they couldn’t live without them (Pew Research
Center 2015).
●Smartphones promise to create a surplus of resources,
productivity, and time (e.g., Turkle 2011; Lee 2016
●Consumers’ interactions with their smartphones can both
facilitate and interrupt off-screen performance (e.g., Isikman et
al. 2016; Sciandra and Inman 2016).
●Capacity limits shape a wide range of behaviors, from in-the-
moment decision-making strategies and performance (e.g.,
Lane 1982; Lynch and Srull 1982) to long-term goal pursuit and
self-regulation (e.g., Hofmann, Strack, and Deutsch 2008;
Benjamin, Brown, and Shapiro 2013).
62. Futurist
Societies
from Ross
Dawson
●Global Associations
– Association of Professional Futurists (APF)
– International Institute of Forecasters (IIF)
– LaFutura
– The Millennium Project
– World Futures Society (WFS)
– World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF)
●National/Regional Associations
– Center for Philippine Futuristics Studies and Management Inc. (APF)
– Dutch Futures Society (DFS)
– European Foresight Platform (EFP)
– Finnish Society for Futures Studies
– Futures Specialists Helsinki
– Futuribles
– Institute for Futures Research (IFR)
– Italian Institute for the Future (IIF)
– Kansallinen ennakointiverkosto (KEV) (National Foresight Network)
– Netzwerk Zukunftsforschung e.V. (Network Future Research e. V.)
– Polish Society for Future Studies
– Prospective 2100
– The Futures Foundation
●Sector Specific Associations
– Communities of the Future (COTF)
– Euroconstruct
– Public Sector Foresight Network (PSFN)
– Society of Police Futurists International
65. We all understand the joys of our
always-wired world—the connections,
the validations, the laughs … the info.
… But we are only beginning to get our
minds around the costs.
Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine,
Sept. 2016, “I Used to Be a Human Being”