This is an example of the indigenous futurism research I’ve been doing lately. YouTube research will help me perform thought experiments on the topics they cover.
I’m using this to educate myself on indigenous futurism. I read trending news articles on an aggregator for tech, health and science news. Yet, it didn’t feel like enough. Luckily, it occurred to me to check out YouTube.
There’s plenty of recorded talks about indigenous futurism and scifi topics. Most times I treat them like podcasts. They play in the background while I engage in other tasks on my computer. Sometimes there are visuals on the YouTube video, but most times they are only “talking heads”.
Talking heads record people talking and nothing else. Once I see what the speaker looks like, I listen to them as if they’re a podcast while the recording plays. Though the videos that have visuals are worth watching in full.
I look forward to seeing what type of stories this practice will generate. These stories can become a way for me to add to the conversation. The stories will work as thought experiments to see how the factors they talk about may affect the future.
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