Liam Young

04/28/21 • 61 min

“The future is a verb, not a noun. It's not something that we passively stumble into, it's something we all actively shape and define”
In this episode, David Johnston sits down with director and architect Liam Young, co-founder of the Urban Futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today and the nomadic research studio Unknown Fields.

The pair discuss how ‘humanness’ in the future will exist in tech blind spots, the importance of visual language to best detail a story, and the power of using fiction as an emotional Trojan horse to travel through potential futures in order to build the correct infrastructure today.

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Together the two discuss how the intersection between human rights and technology is disrupting the discipline of law as we know it, why meeting societies rapidly changing needs requires a multifaceted approach to law, plus Ravi’s involvement in the prosecution of Cambridge Analytica - the case that changed the course of history for data rights and protection.

Endless Vital Activity - Liam Young

Transcript

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David [00:00:12] Welcome back to Endless Vital Activity, conversations to inspire radical action. I'm David Johnston, founder of Accept & Proceed and at A&P we believe the cross pollination of minds and ideas is vital and that we can't find solutions in isolation. Connection and collaboration are critical, so throughout this series, we will engage in wide ranging conversations with radical thinkers, artists, scientists and activ