What Happens Next?
For week 4, I would like to write about What Happens Next. What Happens Next is a project founded by Quartz in collaboration with RetroReport. Quartz is fairly new journalism platform that is also a subscription service founded in 2012. "To serve you best, we produce our journalism across a range of platforms, with a particular focus on design, user experience, and new forms of storytelling," as the Quartz "About" page touts. What Happens Next is one of those projects that focuses on storytelling, as this project is made up of 10 videos and attached articles--although I am pretty miffed about the fact that the you are only allowed to view two free articles a month from Quartz. After all, it is a subscription service at heart. Anyways, though, the videos in the What Happens Next project are what I am really interested in. They cover a range of topics from money to aging to water and more. Each video is about 8-12 minutes long and talks about what could happen next within the fields of each topic. Each video is accompanied by a number of articles as well as a timeline of "Where We Thought We'd Be." The videos are a fascinating journey through the potential of the future. Along with amazing predictions, the website also has a ton of cute art! Great website design and content, despite its capitalist tendencies. Enjoy wondering about what happens next!
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This is an amazing resource. I was thoroughly impressed by the broad range of topics that are covered throughout the site and definitely found a few articles I would like to share and discuss on my website. All that aside though, I think what this website shows is something that I wrote about in my free write for The Dispossessed and that has to do with how important it is to share knowledge. Collectives like these are imperitive to our moving forward into the future. This platform has the potential to be a great way to share thought and hopefully inspire others. Well run and safe think spaces like these are an excellent way of helping head off the possibility of our society ending up like the trouble planet's from Le Guin's novel.
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