The whole reason the Ghost of Christmas Future shows up is just to say “Don’t eff this up, Ebenezer. Get your act together and avoid your terrible future”. It worked for that cranky old bastard and it could work for us.
On Saturday at The Creative Commons Global Summit in Toronto, Ashe Dryden showed us some of our past futures. Things that we used to think might be our future. What I take from that is the need to think about the things that could have happened, the things we hoped would happen, the things we hoped wouldn’t happen and what actually did happen to help us try to forge the best future that we can. The ruby red-lipped, shark people of Jupiter with 8-pack abs have not yet taken over, but we still want to avoid it. Maybe they are super chill, though, so who knows?
#ccsummit buff shark people from @ashedryden as we all obviously expected pic.twitter.com/klhGLM3R0H
— (((Terry Greene))) (@greeneterry) April 29, 2017
So in that spirit, I want to make sure I don’t squander the opportunities that attending the #CCSummit afforded me and forge the best path that I can from here. If Scrooge can do it, I can, too.
Here’s my quick list. It is not exhaustive of all the things I want to take from the summit, but it’s my start:
- Read more of Ashe Dryden’s work
- Read The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong. Her keynote was fabulous.
- Think more about the links between Co-ops and the Commons
- Learn more about copyright through the performing arts
- Keep doing that sweet, sweet Virtually Connecting. I love doing these. Everyone is so nice
- Get CC certified and hope that they go with tattoos as their form of certificate/badge because that would be tight.
- Use those pretty pictures on unsplash. Hopefully they can get themselves a button on the CC Search page. Found a pretty sweet one of a ‘ghost’ for the featured image of this post, I think.
- Revel in the fact that I got to chat Oilers with Martin Weller!
Go Oilers! With @greeneterry at #ccsummit pic.twitter.com/ug05M09KA3
— Martin Weller (@mweller) April 30, 2017
What’s your CC future?
Feature photo: https://unsplash.com/@luisdelrio
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