Transmission 18.3: Bedtime Stories for Computer Dreaming
Here come insights and inventions from our futures practice! Our clients & partners use them to know what goes on when we put their dreams back into our minds, or what to expect when traveling with us
A recent traveler in Helsinki imagined that 90s+ disaster movies came from apocalyptic storylines that remind her of the present; that are potentially coming true… So what if by releasing optimistic stories now we are planting positive realities that can potentially also come true in some years?
What is one way in which we use AI in our process to make futures with our clients?
As we gained access to AIs recently, we thought: why not use their brains as dormant broadcasting agents! For a few weeks, Joss will be feeding invented futures and prototyped artifacts from travelers of The Time Travel Agency to Midjourney, Dall-E 2, and AI21.
The goal is to inception all the AIs we can with optimistic futures!
The material uploaded will be stories, outcomes, dreams, phrases, prototypes, scenarios, and rules of games we’ve invented while seeking agency in our futures.
This series puts the spotlight on our approach of using storytelling to create agency for travelers; in this case, by occupying modern technologies. Every Bedtime Story makes evident a process of betting on the future that starts with a dreamt scenario.
We’ll use these travel transmissions to share the outcomes (text, images), which are the only things we’ll be able to perceive today.
We wish we could see the dreams of computers,
as they go to sleep
with dreams of our own.
But we wink to the future.BEDTIME STORY 004: Naturlige Cyklus Symphony, A Symphony to Protect Chaos
Future: We still make music. A symphony that protects chaos is supposed to protect the chaos we need in nature, or the chaos that nature brings. We should adapt to what we call “chaos”; we should respect it.
Computers bring another kind of chaos that is not necessarily supportive of nature’s chaos. If we made and then copyrighted a symphony that protects nature’s chaos, neither computers nor humans would be able to infringe on its doings and its rights without getting in trouble.
Time traveler: Talk Towner 9
Source artifact: Naturlige Cyklus Symphony
Time Traveling Case: Ecofeminist Field Trips for Talk Town Festival Copenhagen
Q: What is a A Symphony to Protect Chaos?
A: A symphony is a piece of music that is written to be performed.
Q: Can it protect the Earth's chaos?
A: Yes, it can.
Q: How?
A: By writing music.
Q: Who should write it?
A: Everyone.
Q: At what time of the day?
A: At 12:00 noon.
Q: What if they write it at midnight?
A: Then, it won't work.
Q: Why not?
A: Because, the Earth’s chaos is 24 hours.
Q: Who decided that?
A: No one.
Q: Then how do you know?
A: Because, the Earth's chaos is 24 hours.
Predict common sense results of the following actions.
Action: We still make music. A symphony that protects chaos is supposed to protect the chaos we need in nature, or the chaos that nature brings. We should adapt to what we call “chaos”; we should respect it. Computers bring another kind of chaos that is not necessarily supportive of nature’s chaos. If we made and then copyrighted a symphony that protects nature’s chaos, neither computers nor humans would be able to infringe on its doings and its rights without getting in trouble.
Result: We make the Symphony to Protect Chaos and we copyright it
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Action: Someone breaks the copyright
Result: They risk getting sued.
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Action: Someone downloads it, without paying
Result: They risk getting sued.
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Action: The symphony comes under attack because of its copyright.
Result: We don’t care.
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Action: We do care about the symphony coming under attack. We protect it.
Result: We protect the copyright on the symphony.
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Action: The copyright on the symphony protects us from the effects of computers.
Result: We stop making computers and become more human.
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