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OVER 2022 WE WILL BE ANNOUNCING NEW MEMBERS OF OUR BOARD OF VISITORS, & SHARING NEW INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMMING, INCLUDING UPCOMING HINDSIGHT RETREATS. pLEASE CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES.
NEW CO-DIRECTOR!
The Hindsight Institute is delighted to announce that after a rigorous evaluation process, Paulina Borsook has been selected to join Dr. Praba Pilar, Influencer, and Anonymous as Co-Director. Borsook has shared her fiction, essays, humor pieces, and journalism through Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Architectural Record, San Francisco, Salon, Suck, and Feed, and is the author of the acutely insightful Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech (PublicAffairs, 2000). Borsook has been variously described as “The grande dame of digital culture” (UK Independent), “a bohemian intellectual displaced into the world of Silicon Valley high tech” (Worth Magazine), and as someone who has made “a fine
CURRENT EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY
We have designated NextDoor as a Hayekian hyperlocal locus for experiments with self-organization, market innovation, and virality of memes. We are currently researching correlations between mentions of lost kittens, mentions of liberals, and requests for "cheap" service providers.
RISK ANALYSIS
Relying on Hindsight's proprietary mix of data and algorithmic modeling, its Monte Carlo simulations are assessing the risk profiles associated with these hard problems:
AI Writer contributing to the loss of the notion of authorship;
rnn-writer improving sales of self-published erotic supernatural suspense titles;
Slate Star Codex being compared to the Pentagon Papers.
PUBLICATIONS
Co-Director Paulina Borsook is Editor in Chief of the Hindsight Institute Publishing House. Research by contributors Borsook, Pilar, Anonymous and Influencer is ongoing. All publications are bound books, and available for purchase. We do not have Amazon Kindle, Kobo Clara, Kobo Libra, Nook, or any other e-book versions at this time.
A Hindsight Institute investigation into the economic and political rhetoric of Mike Godwin and Vint Cerf, on the dot org TLD. 360 pages. SOLD OUT!
A Hindsight Institute investigation into how Ayn Rand, Silicon Valley's perennial anti-statist thought leader, became a Medicare and Social Security recipient — as well as into the Ayn Rand Institute's receipt of a PPP loan. 18 pages. SOLD OUT!
A Hindsight Institute investigation into the rhetoric of Andrew Keen, since always. 68 Pages. SOLD OUT!
A Hindsight Institute investigation into recent rhetoric from Kara Swisher and Roger McNamee, on the unkind nature of tech corporations and executives. 666 pages. SOLD OUT!
A Hindsight Institute investigation into O'Reilly Media and Sierra Circuits, wage thieves and PPP loan recipients. 563 Pages. SOLD OUT!
A Hindsight Institute investigation into Michael Phillip Moscowitz, on digital nutrition as the sixth pillar of prosperity. 8 Pages. SOLD OUT!
A Hindsight Institute investigation into the appointment of Michael Kratsios (BA Princeton/politics, focus on ancient Greek democracy), former CFO of Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital Management, as the Pentagon's new head of research and engineering. 2020 Pages. NOTE: Publication pending outcome of litigation for violation of NDAs. Hindsight Institute counsel will update us as the case proceeds.
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Although the Foresight Institute based in Palo Alto, California and the Hindsight Institute have a shared focus on world-shaping technologies, do not confuse the two. The Foresight Institute engages futurist scenarios on nanotechnology, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence (with substantial tangents into personal life extension and cryonics), whereas the Hindsight Institute examines how the libertarian, neoliberal politics of Silicon Valley companies based in Palo Alto, California (and the Palo Altos across the world) may be preventing any future, for anyone. Furthermore, in response to confusing Twitter allegations, we want to make clear we are NOT affiliated with the ‘masters of behavioral change/behavioral economists’ of the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, and do not collect your data for behavioral change through apps or chatbots. Thank you for bringing this disinformation to our attention in these wildly confusing times.