LBH + Pioneer Workshop Fringe Map 8/2/18

demography # # # # # # # # #

4: no racial/ethnic majority #

4: silver tsunami # #

4: baby boomer bulge followed by younger population (contraction)

4: more multiracial people #

3: new racial/ethnic categories #

3: widening inequities # #

4: lower population growth rate

people identifying in ways we don't expect # # # #

3: gender identity #

irish and italian vs. now "white" #

who's a citizen?

whitelash

2: more kids coming out as transgender

incels # #

gender imbalance

good of label vs. bad # #

2: machine human symbiosis # #

sexuality

social media avatar # #

part of more abstract demographics not just physical location #

change across generations instead of within just one

wealth transfer

blending of virtual and real life # # #

what does that do psychologically?

how many worlds can you live in?

2 places the same time #

for demographics you kind of multiply yourself

different thumb skin tones -> avatars reflect self-determined race/identity

people identifying as incels, finding community

terrorism

virtual tribalism #

more electoral college/senate distortion in relation to population # #

extreme representation for certain states VS. trend of moving out of urban centers #

city and states as is vs. future of cities will it stay the same --> city-states? #

acceleration of homelessness as a trend # #

4: islam fastest growing religion #

who's going to die off?

outcasts vs. singulars # #

who refuses to participate?

homelessness normalized #

1: genomics will people select based on perceived race of children #

if this is what signals superior status, I'll engineer for my child #

prison industrial complex #

right to access/dignity?

decline of non-orthodox judaism/prostestanism #

illumination of innovative administrative categories of race --> no race, categories purely administrative #

diversity as an advantage/being diverse desirable #

what's normalized? #

shooters #

relation to identity? what does marginalization mean?

religion is how we create social norms --> does ability to enforce morals decline with this decline? #

resurgence of spirituality in place of religion

morals driven by administrative fix? #

with future of jobs shift trying to find meaning #

increase in multigenerational households

increase in people dealing with chronic mental health and other chronic disease issues

1: abolish electoral college in favor of representational model

growth of gun violence

how we count employment

AI understanding people with an accents/culturally sensitive AI #

Bose sleep aid -- comfortable to wear for hours #

can understand anyone talking anywhere?

education

degree inflation, doesn't mean as much with each generation # #

degree commodification

more people getting education #

1: purpose of education to solve crisis of planet not just for economic capitalist growth = shift in reason for education #

certification of skills # # #

interdisciplinary medical teams

more smart people not going to college # #

2: higher ed like newspapers. Harvard/MITs will endure. #

corporate with data-driven information to influence what universities teaching to meet what skills they need # #

education gets free, but poor affected because have to pay to get licensed

testing will not go away unless start sorting earlier because of big data #

Germany

decline of arts/literature/non-monetizable fields

resurgence of trade professions

corporate owning medical education #

demise of public education #

amount of time not on screen rather than on screen

genomics predicting learning difficulties; success (potentially used in a discriminatory way) #

technology making education more global

recrafting education as people are 24/7 available with rich information to increase critical thinking?

intelligence based on race

algorithmic bias #

more diverse opportunities in classroom

increase demand in bilingual education with more polylingual kids

3: more males gaming

gender bias with exposure to certain information?

renurturing of (indigenous) language for health purposes?

4: increasing personalization of education, learn what you want to learn

impact on brain development and social/emotion dvpt

affect of gaming on moral formation and identity formation

effect on democracy?

1: teaching kids becomes cool because of tech

2: augmented reality makes teaching while just living possible

US doesn't attract best and brightest anymore

journalism

journalists kinda putting their feelings into piece #

ubiquitous drones monitoring us so we feel like we know the news

increased echo chambers in (earbud tech/drone)

"things" identified sooner

false confidence #

decreasing trust # #

layperson journalist/pundits

public ownership/financing of journalism # #

NJ at state level allocating funding for local

LA Times floating govt bonds for buyout

deep fake videos

ground truth of evidence

industry to nullify fake news

evolution of censorship

advertising bots/filter bubbles #

all media comes with trigger warning

2: inappropriate advertising for kids

less rigor for fact checking # # #

what becomes "objective" with big data

algorithms refine/customize what you read #

can there be a blind spot algorithms for people to see differeing views? # # #

FB did that to increase clicks -- business case

political readership decline? or opposite? # #

paper media subculture #

clickbait

rise of byte-sized news #

rise of trolls #

trollish behavior on the news side #

politically-aligned news outet --> relation to democracy

augmented reality + location based news #

science of shaming

reading level -- more people read more complex ideas

interactives news/polls # # #

virtual reality news

too many links?

Laurel/Yanny

Cambridge analytica using HP house polls

subliminal news #

Journalism as a Service JaaS # #

for social movements, #MeToo

civic journalism

investigative journalism

alternative revenue models? #

journalists as gig workers

demand aggregation/crowd funding

narrative aggregator with generative algorithms # #

utne reader

economy

alternates to capitalism -> socialism/new #

alternatives to corporate culture/consumerism

shift of economic centers from coast to middle of country

increased economic disparities

impact of AI/tech is disproportionate on certain industries

shift of jobs that are valuable # #

what's under-valued no valuable e.g. plumbers

greater privatization of govt. services #

private funding of public goods #

new private funders make non-profit sector obsolete

funders outside the US # #

growing crisis of service jobs

gig economy #

health care as growing sector #

entrepreneurship growing b/c of global changes #

growing middle class globally # #

increase in medical tourism #

increase in corporations valuing workers' health

demise of middle class # #

US not world's superpower # # #

externalities of capitalism harm economy/society

new metrics for wealth of nation (beyond GDP)

women + minorities move into jobs that become commoditized

persistent inequality #

new currency

intergenerational transfer of wealth

decreased resiliency from housing + economic crises

growing green jobs

reclaiming our relationship with land

work places increase diversity #

flexibility of work structure (9-5)

decrease digital divide

current office space reclaimed

housing prices decrease #

climate change induced migation