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Mark Frauenfelder in Urgent Futures

Feb 17, 2016

Bitcoin is the Sewer Rat of Currencies

Andreas Antonopoulos on the future of blockchains

10 responses

Mark Frauenfelder in Urgent Futures

May 26, 2016

Imagining the Future is Creating the Future

What I learned after spending two days with futurists and positive psychologists

5 responses

Mark Frauenfelder in Urgent Futures

May 2, 2016

Amazon is Just Walmart on Digital Drugs

Author Douglas Rushkoff on a Sustainable Economy

In December 2013, a group of protestors in Oakland, California attacked a private Google shuttle bus that was taking Google employees from their Bay Area…

4 responses

Mark Frauenfelder in Urgent Futures

Apr 11, 2016

It’s the criminal economy, stupid!

Naming and shaming corporate tax dodgers isn’t enough. We need to hack them and track them, too.

By Kathi Vian and Mark Frauenfelder

10 responses

Marina Gorbis in Urgent Futures

Mar 8, 2016

Learning is Earning:

The rise of the learning economy where knowledge is the real currency

4 responses

Marina Gorbis in Urgent Futures

Sep 21, 2016

Designing the future of work

by Devin Fidler and Marina Gorbis

Mark Frauenfelder in Urgent Futures

Nov 8, 2016

What does it mean to be human in an age of machines?

A discussion with Rod Falcon, Director of the Technology Horizons Program at Institute for the Future

Mark Frauenfelder in Urgent Futures

Sep 19, 2016

The Secret Aid Worker

Here’s what happened when Mike Zuckerman brought his San Francisco culture…

Mark Frauenfelder in Urgent Futures

Dec 15, 2016

Making the Gig Economy Work for Everyone

Ideas and prototypes at IFTF’s Positive Platform Design Jam

Mark Frauenfelder in Urgent Futures

Apr 18, 2016

Understand the Blockchain in Two Minutes

Olivia Olson (voice of Marceline the Vampire Queen in Adventure Time) explains how the blockchain could change the way we do almost everything online

These were the top 10 stories published by Urgent Futures in 2016. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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