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Culture3 exists to shape technology to unlock human flourishing. The technological revolution of the 21st century takes us into a new epoch, and humanity faces a thousand possible futures. It is culture – the single biggest accelerator of social change – that determines which path we take.
Climate crisis. Up close.

Can virtual reality solve climate change?

Researchers are increasingly looking to virtual reality to explain the climate crisis in new, impactful ways. From ecotourism to education to direct action, Clovis McEvoy explores how VR is cutting through the noise to communicate the planet’s greatest issue.

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Clovis McEvoy
November 30, 2023
Climate crisis. Up close.

Can virtual reality solve climate change?

Researchers are increasingly looking to virtual reality to explain the climate crisis in new, impactful ways. From ecotourism to education to direct action, Clovis McEvoy explores how VR is cutting through the noise to communicate the planet’s greatest issue.

Technology
Impact
Clovis McEvoy
November 30, 2023
Has music become boring?

Generative AI will reshape songwriting, and that’s a good thing

Songwriting is ripe for disruption. Far from automating creativity, AI will usher in a golden age of music by unlocking new sounds, styles, and genres, writes Clovis McEvoy.

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Music
Clovis McEvoy
October 9, 2023
Does human acting still matter?

Synthetic Hollywood: a future with no actors?

There's no doubt that AI will transform Hollywood. But how will an industry built on the simulation of life grapple with its responsibility to 'the real' — and will it even bother?

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Alli Magidsohn
May 18, 2023
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Inside the reinvention of co-living communities

Throughout history, humans have organised in communities. From nomadic tribes to 21st century metropolises, common geography, economy, and culture has always made for a community. With thousands of members who coordinate with a token, Cabin is reinventing what that looks like.

Allen Taylor
August 1, 2023
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“I don’t think we would be happy if everything was easy.”

Working at music’s digital frontier, Portrait XO shows how the future of AI can have a place for us all. She tells Clovis McEvoy about the release of her newest AI creation, the importance of creative struggle, and why society looks to artists to show the true shape of disruptive technology.

Clovis McEvoy
November 17, 2023
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Will AI fashion models make us all look the same?

AI-generated models are storming the fashion industry, but what happens when the images that shape our social norms are made by algorithms? Randy Ginsburg explores what AI fashion models mean for human uniqueness, the future of niches, and how the fashion industry plans to keep up.

Randy Ginsburg
October 16, 2023
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Will AI fashion models make us all look the same?

AI-generated models are storming the fashion industry, but what happens when the images that shape our social norms are made by algorithms? Randy Ginsburg explores what AI fashion models mean for human uniqueness, the future of niches, and how the fashion industry plans to keep up.

Randy Ginsburg
October 16, 2023
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How a local tech community is jazzing up New Orleans

Despite being one of the world's most popular cities, New Orleans still feels like it's fallen behind after Hurricane Katrina. Michael Stahl explores how a local movement is looking to put their city on the map for its tech, not just its culture.

Michael Stahl
October 11, 2023
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Generative AI will reshape songwriting, and that’s a good thing

Songwriting is ripe for disruption. Far from automating creativity, AI will usher in a golden age of music by unlocking new sounds, styles, and genres, writes Clovis McEvoy.

Clovis McEvoy
October 9, 2023
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How virtual worlds are reshaping the Ivy League education

When a Harvard Senior Fellow told Mark Fielding that every university dean was a fan of the metaverse, he had to find out how they're using extended reality to reinvent university education. What he learnt was how classrooms without walls can transform the university experience.

Mark Fielding
October 5, 2023
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How AI agents are coming for office work

Driven by powerful models like ChatGPT, autonomous agents have recently emerged as AI’s next remarkable development. Randy Ginsburg explores their current applications, functionality, and future implications on society at large.

Randy Ginsburg
October 4, 2023
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Where are we going to wear digital fashion?

There are two camps of virtual fashion: the fantastical, physics-defying pieces that can only exist online, and the digital twins of real apparel that resemble items you expect to see in a shop. Which will emerge as the defining trend of digital fashion?

McKenna Sweazey
September 28, 2023
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What extended reality tells us about the next chapter of the internet

Amidst rising sea levels, the island nation of Tuvalu is exploring digitising itself in the metaverse. Clovis McEvoy writes that it is one of many extended reality experiments that show how the future of the internet lies in connection and collaboration.

Clovis McEvoy
September 20, 2023
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At home in the anti-cool — crypto and the next counterculture

Beneath the undercurrents of crypto culture lies a foundation of social and technological subversion. Above it is a countercultural movement that traces back to the punks and hippies of the 20th century.

Andreas
September 14, 2023
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Powering $100 billion already, Sam Duncan is using AI to make capitalism care about the climate

The quest to make companies care about the climate is a decades-long struggle, but technology, particularly AI, represents a transformative opportunity to put a company's net purpose in the same conversation as their net profit. The secret? Follow the money.

Leo Nasskau
September 5, 2023
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