The book includes five future scenarios, four commentary chapters, and beautiful illustrations by artist and designer, Barbara Schussman. The futures were imagined by twenty expert Core Contributors, and are based on trends, signals, contexts and critiques from their work across the innovation, design, human resources, academic and creative sectors. It’s a topic that builds on our previous investigation in Futures of Creative Expression and our own experiences from running a co-working space for eleven years at Media Evolution.
[Read more about the Collaborative Foresight on Futures of Digital Work](Read more about the Collaborative Foresight cycle on Futures of Digital Work.).
“How will Artificial Intelligence-infused platforms shape work?”
The futures scenarios are vividly brought to life by futurist, scholar and sci-fi writer, Paul Graham Raven.
Commentary written by Pip Mothersill (Meta Reality Labs), Pontus Wärnestål (Head of AI Design/Eghed and Halmstad University), and Core Contributors Kalle Magnusson, Karin Lilja, and Lisa Henriksson offer perspectives on what it will take to build and maintain agency in sustainable, creative and fulfilling futures at work.
Contents
| Chapters | |
|---|---|
| The Breath of the Doing – Opening Chapter | Preface |
| Village People | Future 1 |
| The Facts on the Ground | Future 2 |
| Turn On, Click Through, Drop Out | Future 3 |
| Games Without Frontiers | Future 4 |
| Desiderata | Future 5 |
| The Balance Between Automation and Agency | Commentary |
| Power, Disruption and the Dawn of the Small(er) | Commentary |
| The New Sheriff | Commentary |
| Shaping Tomorrow: Designing for AI and Circularity | Commentary |
| Reflecting on AI and Collaborative Foresight | Epilogue |
Colophon
- Graphic concept: HolsterGreen Studio
- Layout: Linnea Paulsson Neppelberg
- ISBN: 978-91-987389-6-4
- Published: February 2024
- Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Funded by:
The Collaborative Foresight cycle leading to the book was hosted in partnership with Malmö University as part of the Data Society research programme.
Writers:
- Kalle Magnusson
- Karin Lilja
- Lisa Henriksson
- Pip Mothersill
- Pontus Wärnestål
Core Contributors:
- Ahmed Elsayed
- Alexander Leveau
- Anna-Carin Alderin
- David Dahlenius
- Helena Sousa
- Hjalte Betak
- Isabella Salomonsson
- Jakob Svensson
- Johan Toresson
- Kalle Magnusson
- Karin Lilja
- Katarzyna Gruszka
- Lisa Henriksson
- Magnus Thure Nilsson
- Maria Engberg
- Martin Berg
- Michael Rozenberg
- Nikolaj Møller
- Olivia Peters
- Rodolfo Zúñiga
- Sofia Sundbom
- Tomas de Souza
