Rethink The Future
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Rethink The Future
A virtual launch event coming March 6th-10th, 2023.
To kick it off with a bang, we invited all of our favorite writers to have deep thoughts about the future. Every day during launch week we’ll send you a new video about the future of the media, business, technology, scientific advancement, the internet, and even space—all the things we’ll be talking about at The Post once we get going.
Here’s our schedule of events
Monday: The future of media
is the head of publisher relations for and she believes we’re in the middle of a seismic shift for the media industry. People just don’t follow brands anymore, they follow people. As a result, large media conglomerates are rapidly losing readers as social media profiles gain followers. Sophia will be discussing what are we moving away from, what are we moving to, and what the future of the media will look like.
Tuesday: The future of work
, author of , will be speaking about the history, present, and future of work and leisure. We’ll discuss how work has changed over the last 200 years, the decline in working hours and the rise of leisure hours, the shift from blue-collar to white-collar work, the dream of liking what you do, and where the future of work will go from here.
Evan Armstrong, author of Napkin Math, will also be speaking about the future of productivity and whether that’s even a goal worth pursuing!
Wednesday: The future of technology
, author of will be talking about the history and future of techno-optimist movements. We'll discuss the role tech criticism plays in contributing (or not) to progress—plus what it means for tech criticism to be generative vs. destructive.
Thursday: The future of the internet
Deepti Doshi, co-director of
will be speaking about the future of the internet. We'll discuss the digital spaces we need to create for a better future, and how community entrepreneurs can use online architecture—like Facebook groups—to build healthy democratic communities within smaller decentralized platforms.
this is REALLY interesting stuff... look forward to it, esp the Monday Sophia discussion