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There aren’t many films that show a hopeful version of a climate-changed world. @UnitedCitiesUC is a great exception. It’s set 20 years after a great flood that has dramatically changed the map of the Earth and made old nations disappear. Now independent cities work together instead, and people have learned to live as part of nature. Director @Cpousada and 20+ designers, writers, engineers, economists, and lawyers have spent 14 years building this world. You can explore it at the link in the reply.

Why is there so little optimistic art? Al Wakeman hosted a group discussion about it at the latest Progress Conference. Here are our favorite insights: • The people who believe in a better future are busier building it than making art about it • Pessimism usually feels more urgent than optimism • Positive stories don't offer easy villains • Authors with a creative writing background tend to write less optimistic stories than those with a STEM background You can read all 24 insights (plus 7 answers to the question: "What would people spend $10 million on to have the biggest effect on optimistic visions of the future?") at the link in the reply ↓

What happens to human connection as we spend more time with AIs? How will we keep learning and growing as AI does more of the work? @edelwax explores these questions in his new essay in @PaxMachinaMag, where he imagines a world organized around shared purposes, called "telocracy". You'll find: • AIs that keep organizations accountable to their purposes • AIs that help people come together around shared goals • Markets where people can buy what they truly care about, not what’s easiest to sell You can read the full essay at the link in the original post ↓