This is the second in a series of conversations with people operating in the foresight/futures arena — Futurists Talking To Futurists.

J. Paul Neeley is a speculative designer and service designer. He teaches at the Royal College of Art in the service design course. His work explores the social, cultural, economic, and ethical implications of emerging technologies, designing speculative futures that help us engage with possibility as a way of reframing and understanding anew our current state. Recent projects have focused on happiness, healthcare and wellbeing, self quantification, social polarization and civility, future mobility, AI, synthetic biology, and issues of complexity and computational irreducibility in design and business.

Find out more about his practice at https://www.neeleyworldwide.com and https://www.critical.design

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