working notes of Future Fabulators

• prediction_markets
• can we use predictions to help separate/isolate important, predictable events within a “A Nonpredictive View of the World”? (cf. fragility → robustness → antifragility)
• what is the question? can it be answered diceisively at a particualr point in the future? what is at stake? what are the consequences or impacts?

• divination / invocation

While editing scenarios on the libarynth it became apparent how tricky it is to keep a consistency in information and layout of the scenarios. The scenario database we're planning to make should make this easier. Components that seem to be needed in all scenarios:

• what is the question?
• what are the scenario axes?
• sometimes we have a short answer to the question (usually created after making the scenarios)
• how far in the future does the scenario take place?
• scenario description
• genaral image(s)
• more specific/clarifying images
• links to the pages of related scenarios (and a 'parent' page that describes the workshop goals etc. - not sure if we should include this in the database?)

should we try to contextualise the scenarios directly in the database?

• a section with links to projects/theories/examples of (the beginnings of) this scenario already taking place today
• section on how the scenario is turned into a prehearsal (could be in the form of a 'day in the life of…“?
• reflections on the prehearsal
• etc.

or should we keep the database only as a 'short story collection'?

• open formats > closed formats
• utf-8 > ascii/latin-1/etc+
• documents
  • utf-8 text or ODF (libreoffice, openoffice) for editable docs
  • pdf for reference & archiving
  • VUE for diagrams
• semi syncronous; email, twitter, irc (freenode → #ff ?)
• asyncronous; dokuwiki, django, gitlab
• algorithmic sketching; racket, common lisp, python, git
• online
  • libarynth for text, tangents and collation → http://libarynth.org
  • flickr for image matter → https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/
  • vimeo for video matter → http://vimeo.com/fo4m
  • zotero for library and references → https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library
• potentially
  • tumblr, cargo, diasp, other?
  • prediction book
  • wikipedia

• various scifi threads re. possible future cultures, shifting relation between humans & their environment, exploration of 'biosphere dividend'. near and far futures
  • bloom, ventus, mars trilogy, incrementalists, etc+
  • “A History of the Future in 100 Objects ” » notes and quotes
  • 'the culture' (iain_m_banks)
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
    • notes_on_the_culture
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_ideas_in_science_fiction
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_ideas_in_science_fiction
• The Hermetic Library reading room » http://hermetic.com/reading-room/
• Erwin Wagenhofer's movie about the crisis of creativity in education: http://www.alphabet-film.com/
• Christine Wilks talking about text as a way for developing character depth; http://www.riders-project.net/research/videos/christine-wilks-taking-text-out-of-the-box.html (This probably belongs elsewhere, but…)
  • performing text on screen
  • Varytale http://varytale.com
  • “Text becomes the equivalent of subtitles” - is this a good thing?
  • Very based around computer games.
  • “Character is a black box” - in PNs, we can only be based on interpretation based on behaviour and its artefacts, not on explicit exposure, unless we have things like “Dear Diary…”
  • Note: Prehearsals are first person narratives, PNs are third person. Thus a Prehearsal can have “more” introspection in some sense.