David Staley

@davidstaley8.bsky.social

Writer, futurist, mark maker, designer, presenter, advisor, provocateur, public intellectual, educator, historiographer, monologist, and "eclectic academic"

One-sentence Future: The Periodic Table That ridiculous trillionaire purchased the Periodic table, claiming ownership of chemistry itself, then he unveiled his “visionary makeover” where the elements were rearranged by market value and renamed after his companies.

One-sentence Future: The Periodic Table

That ridiculous trillionaire purchased the Periodic table, claiming ownership of chemistry itself, then he unveiled his “visionary makeover” where the elements were rearranged by market value and rena...

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Folks... This isn't about safety or regulation. This is about which companies are going to get ingratiated with the government to write the rules that benefit those companies and crush all other competition www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

They raced to build AI. Now they say it’s going too fast.

Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google endorsed slowing down AI development and have been discussing the creation of a new safety body.

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One-sentence Future: Luddites Police label them domestic terrorists, but ordinary citizens cheer the gangs of masked saboteurs who smash cameras and confound biometric scanners and disable drones and blind surveillance networks. davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...

One-sentence Future: Luddites

Police label them domestic terrorists, but ordinary citizens cheer the gangs of masked saboteurs who smash cameras and confound biometric scanners and disable drones and blind surveillance networks.

davidjstaley.substack.com

Pulling double duty on Wednesday: At 8:00, I'm moderating the panel "Leading Organizations Through the Age of AI" at the ACG Columbus September Breakfast. Then I'll hop in my car and deliver the 11:00 keynote "2040: Drivers of the Future" at the Ohio Association of Health Plans Annual Convention

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Psychologists announced the discovery of a dormant human instinct, suppressed for millennia, that compelled people to form synchronized humming circles, a latent bonding instinct older than language, leading to a new subfield of cultural anthropology devoted to understanding the impulse.

One-sentence Future: Instinct

Psychologists announced the discovery of a dormant human instinct, suppressed for millennia, that compelled people to form synchronized humming circles, a latent bonding instinct older than language, ...

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Preparing for a Changing College Athletics Landscape Karen Weaver has been an elite athlete, a coach and a university athletics administrator. Her new book explores what college presidents—and fans—need to know to navigate the ever-shifting ecosystem of college sports. https://bit.ly/4yv85QL

Cover of “Understanding College Athletics: What Campus Leaders Need to Know About College Sports” next to a headshot of the author Karen Weaver.