At Something Digital in Brisbane, Marwa Fatafta will bring a perspective that is both global and deeply personal. As the Middle East and North Africa Policy Director at Access Now, she leads advocacy on digital rights in one of the world’s most politically charged and technologically surveilled regions. Her portfolio spans content governance, platform accountability,…
“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”— Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11 We live in a time when emptiness is feared, silence is pathologised, and stillness is stigmatised. Our culture celebrates visibility, constant production, and total availability. But what if the most radical act…
An introduction to a values-based approach for the age of AI, climate crisis, and cultural transformation. In a world increasingly shaped by speed, scale, and automation, communication has lost something essential: connection.We’ve optimised how we speak — but we’ve forgotten why we speak. At Communication Generation, we believe it’s time to go beyond persuasive copywriting,…
1. A Time of Reckoning, A Time to Reimagine We are living through a crisis of imagination. As the climate warms, ecosystems collapse, inequality deepens, and AI advances at breakneck speed, many of the stories guiding our civilisation are failing us. In their place, new techno-utopian visions—spearheaded by billionaires and backed by Silicon Valley ideologues—are…