2019/indiewebfutures

IndieWeb Futures

IndieWeb Futures was a session at IndieWeb Summit 2019.

Video: ▶️48:04s

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/indiewebfutures

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IndieWeb Summit 2019
Session: IndieWeb Futures
When: 2019-06-29 17:05

Participants

• Ariana (session facilitator)
• Jonathan LaCour
• David Shanske
• Jamey Sharp
• Malcolm Blaney
• Tiara Miller
• Marty McGuire
• gRegor Morrill
• fluffy
• ki.tt
• Tom Brown
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Notes

1. Think about “emerging signals of change” in our groups. Exploring possible futures for IndieWeb. Using those possible futures to reflect on the present.
   • STEEPV (Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Political, Values)
2. cluster these signals as they seem related. pick 3 of these signals from the various clusters.
3. Assign your team one of these “Four Futures”:
   • Growth (status quo basQAQically continues)
   • Collapse (good or bad!)
   • Discpline (chosen vs imposed)
   • Transformation (profound historical change as occurred)
4. Looking at the three signals of change chosen in #2, applied to these different types of futures, brainstorm 5-7 primary implications of that future and then pick 2 or 3 of those and generate 5-7 secondary implications (of the implications).

Headlines from the Future

Discipline:

• Surveillance capitalism runs rampant as big tech becomes pseudo governments
• Facebook police capture public enemy number 1, notorious indie web hacker; huge trove of illegal cash confiscated
• Indie Web made illegal, facebook cites unprofitability

Collapse:

• Collapse of capitalism leads to hyperlocal smaller collaborative societies
• The long now clock finally unveiled
• Sally's cat pooped on your roof

Growth: arc of history bends toward justice

• Gazion: send money to performers in real time just by looking at them: buionic contact lenses allow you to visually send money with your own eyes
• Wealth gap eliminated thanks to government anti-bias program
• heads of equifax and axiom jailed for flagrant violations of data sovereignty act

Transformation: protecting against abuse

• median life expectancy hits record high
• local economies support mental health

Reflections

Implications of all the little things we're all building on the future in big ways

Note: discuss this at IndieWeb Summit 2050.

See Also

• 2019/Schedule