Absurdist Incubator: Exploring the ethics of fulfilling dreams

Julia Vernersson, Ruta Vimba In this workshop we will be playing
entrepreneurs with no regrets. While scientists plant artificial
memories in sleeping mice, apps let you take selfies with dead
relatives and hobby hackers create face swapping porn with open
source machine learning algorithms, you can let your mind roam free
with your fellow founders in search for the best return on
investment. Who will be able to afford remembering their past just
as perfect as an average Instagram account? Will the middle-class
prefer fake vacations to real ones? Will all dreams come true, and
if so, for whom? After fishing out our brightest ideas we will take
a look at the possible ethical implications of our plans. This
session is meant as a small participative excursion into a utopian
future, where reality has become a problem just for the poor.
  max. 30 TeilnehmerInnen