Wow, is it easier or harder to go to a conference in a different country and call out all the attendees as doing the wrong thing, being complicit in pseudo-colonialism, and needing to change their tact? Large balls, this man.<p>Edit: Is it just me, or is there this underlying current of hostility coming from him. He says ingratiating things the the attendees occasionally ("you're smart", "you're an organized group"), but it feels like he's mocking them somewhat.
tl;dw:<p>Design fiction orgs to look up: Superflux, Near Future Lab, Arup Foresight, Royal College of Art, Art Center College of Design, Arizona State University eMerge.<p>Don't need to write science fiction about future possibilities, just make a low-budget high-polish design fiction film and release it online.<p>Science fiction is a form of fiction, design fiction is a form of design.<p>The cycle: question mark -> rising star -> cash cow -> dead dog. Those that live by disruption die by disruption.<p>In the startup world you work hard and move fast to make other people rich. Then these financiers buy governments and destroy the middle class with "austerity."