“Ideas” is a thinking and writing space: for testing concepts and cultivating sustained theoretical reflection on foresight, futures, technology, social and political issues. It lives at the intersection of rigorous inquiry and experimental sensibility.
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The first sign is often banal: a meeting request with “AI strategy” in the title. By then, something has already happened. Someone in the organization has been using generative tools quietly for months. A manager has praised an AI-generated synthesis because it sounded clean enough to be true. A client has asked why the company…
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Bartek Frąckowiak from Strategic Dreamers in conversation with Iwo Zmyślony on AI, Palantir, Peter Thiel and the politics of technological imagination Artificial intelligence is rarely just a conversation about technology. It is also a conversation about power, fear, prediction, security, capital, governance and the shrinking space of political imagination. The way we talk about AI…
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The Invisible ConflictEmissions is part of our ongoing emerging issues identification practice at Strategic Dreamers. We track signals at the intersection of technology, governance, and security that have yet to enter mainstream strategic discourse. Description War has become a hidden engine of the climate crisis. It burns through cities, fuel depots, supply chains, and futures,…
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Originally published as an essay Infrastructures of Violence, Security and Solidarity: Challenges for Art, Technology and Society, a critical text by Bartosz Frąckowiak published on 20 December 2024 in _BW Mag (Planetary Futures series). The text situates contemporary infrastructures of violence and security within global political-technological systems, engages with theoretical work on logistics and power…
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The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. Play can put us in a state of flow – that condition in which we allow ourselves to become completely immersed in an activity, lose track of time, and effortlessly discover next steps,…
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The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. The cosmos has always been a mirror of human imagination. But today, more than ever, it has become an arena where two fundamentally different visions of the future collide. Gravitational Waves and Fluid…
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The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. Let us begin with a provocative hypothesis: while AI appears to be a breakthrough in modern technology and promises to stimulate transformations in many domains, it paradoxically reinforces existing power structures rather than…
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The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. Travel has often been a narrative of conquest: of land, space, oceans, and now, increasingly, of time and data. Discovery in order to exploit and extract. When we think of travel, we often…
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The language we employ to describe new technologies tends to emphasize their lightness, swiftness, and ephemeral and non-material nature. We talk about the cloud and imagine scattered molecules of data, without weight or physical mass, ungraspable, floating nimbly in the air. Meanwhile the Internet, the cloud, or what allows us to experience technologies as “light,”…