The radical idea that everything has elements of consciousness is reemerging and breathing new life into a cold and mechanical cosmos.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-conscious-universe/
What Does the Future of Work Sound Like?
Before the pandemic, two-thirds of U.S. office workers were in open office environments filled with bad acoustics and distracting noises from loud group meetings, phone and video calls, watercooler chatter, and the clicking of keyboards. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Made Music Studio’s research shows that companies can improve employees’ workplace experiences — by creating a sense of privacy, masking bad noise, and enhancing mood, focus, and even productivity — through the right use of sound.
https://sloanreview-mit-edu.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-does-the-future-of-work-sound-like/amp
How Fashion Giants Recast Plastic as Good for the Planet
The Higg Index is on its way to becoming a de facto global standard. In Europe, policymakers this year are set to lay out rules on how brands must back up their environmental claims, and in New York, a bill seeks to hold fashion brands accountable for their role in climate change. Fashion-industry officials have said the Higg Index could be used as a benchmark in both.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/climate/vegan-leather-synthetics-fashion-industry.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
1966: By 1976 we will have ROBOT HOUSEKEEPERS (BBC Archive)
Our Audiences Define Who We Are
Assumptions are being made about the validity of forecasting practices and trend forecasters are increasingly misunderstood.
The Tighter Labor Market Is Making Restaurants More Like Factories
Food-service operations were poised to surpass manufacturing in total employees—and then Covid hit. Now they’re transforming with smaller staffs and automation.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-16/restaurant-jobs-take-factory-like-turn-in-tight-labor-market
Air Protein creates fake steak from CO2 that replicates taste and texture of meat
While beef generates 70 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions for every kilogram produced, while also causing widespread deforestation, Air Protein founder Lisa Dyson claims that its protein production emits far less carbon and doesn’t require land or animals.
“We look at the analysis from cradle to gate, prior to when the product is consumed,” she told Dezeen. “On this basis, our vision is to build the first carbon-negative meat company.”
https://www-dezeen-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.dezeen.com/2022/04/14/air-protein-meat-alternative-recycled-carbon-dioxide/amp/
Redefining ‘Sustainable Fashion’
“Sustainable,” implies “able to continue over a period of time,” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. “Fashion,” on the other hand, implies change over time. To reconcile the two is impossible. No wonder striving for net-zero emissions makes us all feel like Don Quixote, tilting at windmills.
Because there is no simple answer to solving fashion’s role in climate change. Even the obvious one — don’t make, or buy, any new stuff, and don’t throw away any old stuff — has negative implications for employment, know-how and self-definition. (After all, people have been adorning themselves to express themselves for pretty much as long as they have understood themselves as “selves.”) The crucial issue for each of us, no matter which side of the equation we are on, is thinking about and understanding the effects of the choices we make, so we can make better ones in the future.
Anais Nin’s On The Importance Of Creating Your Own World
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
https://wordsofwomen.com/anais-nins-quotes-that-will-change-your-life/
Google Shows Early Preview of Augmented Reality Glasses
Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which failed to find a consumer audience for its internet-connected glasses about a decade ago, on Wednesday presented a prototype of augmented reality glasses aimed at the general public.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-11/google-shows-early-preview-of-augmented-reality-glasses
Analyzing Trends with Tim Stock 