David Staley

@davidstaley8.bsky.social

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

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.

One-sentence Future: ELO rating From birth until death, an invisible ELO rating tethers to everyone, rising with victories and falling with failures, sorting the privileged and the deprived, a millstone no one can escape. davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...

One-sentence Future: ELO rating

From birth until death, an invisible ELO rating tethers to everyone, rising with victories and falling with failures, sorting the privileged and the deprived, a millstone no one can escape.

davidjstaley.substack.com

My latest "Next" column. What if the future is defined not by scarcity, but by "Abundance." To commemorate the 60th anniversary of Star Trek, I explore the possibilities of the replicator and consider what such abundance would mean for our economy, society and culture. @colsunderground.bsky.social

Next: Abundance - Columbus Underground

The biggest shortages facing America today—housing, energy, scientific breakthroughs—are not natural, but are “manufactured scarcity.”

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One-sentence Future: The evil artist The evil artist in his studio is sculpting greater terrors than any unhinged scientist in his lab could ever dream of, all because he was denied a one-person exhibition at MoMA. davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...

One-sentence Future: The evil artist

The evil artist in his studio is sculpting greater terrors than any unhinged scientist in his lab could ever dream of, all because he was denied a one-person exhibition at MoMA.

davidjstaley.substack.com

One-sentence Future: Rebuild After the collapse, the survivors passed around a dog-eared copy of Annalee Newitz’s novel "The Terraformers," rebuilding society according to its visionary technologies and amicable relationships between robots and humans and sentient animals. @annaleen.bsky.social

One-sentence Future: The rebuild

After the collapse, the survivors passed around a dog-eared copy of Annalee Newitz’s novel The Terraformers, rebuilding society according to its visionary technologies and amicable relationships betwe...

davidjstaley.substack.com