Futurism

Previously, She was a China journalist at Bloomberg News.

She received a BA from Harvard, where she wrote her thesis on Sino-Futurism and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Selena, welcome to the Impact Podcast.

Thank you so much for having me, John.

Hey,

before we get talking, I'm going to ask you about your childhood in a second, but Sino-Futurism, what does that mean even?

Yeah, that's a great question.

There's no agreed upon definition for it, but I roughly think about it as the sense that the future is emerging in China and that future looks somewhat different from what we are familiar with in the West.

And as you can see, even many of the earlier people like the anarchist, and in fact, I have a thing I want to read from this particular anarchist named Renzo Novatore.

if people are not familiar with him, he was sort of the precursor of, or maybe influenced by sort of the embryonic stages of futurism.

Futurism is a very strange, I will say ideology, but it is something that came within Italy itself.

And it's something I believe set the stage for the radical extreme on the right and the left in Italy.

And it's, it's stayed, made us made a stamp of, Proceeding that also, there was a group of people, like I mentioned, Bakunin.

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So I have to ask you guys about data centers because Futurism reports that the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma's Tribal Council just voted 24-0. for a moratorium on generative AI tech and hyperscale data center development in the nation's jurisdiction and tribal lands.

24-0.

So it was close, right? And this came after a tech startup was seeking an NDA.

And a related Futurism report said Indigenous activists have raised A lot of fear about the water consumption and the energy use, which we've talked about in the jurisdiction, and the tribal communities might not be given all the information about these projects.

Simon, what does the Seminole Nation's 24-0 decision tell us about the meaning of sovereignty right now in the age of AI?

That we have the right.

A clip shared by a Chicago resident by the name of Becca Osteen, on her morning run, she captured the bizarre moment when a swarm of delivery robots from the firm Coco, all basically went nuts and jammed a sidewalk right near Lincoln Park.

Apparently it was a freak glitch and video, which is embedded in this article in Futurism, is like about 12, 13 of these.

They look like baskets, big pink baskets on four wheels, all kind of like does not compute, bumping into each other like bumper cars.

And it's funny to look at But what when she uploaded this to her Instagram or whatever, people responded.