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The Communication Generation Manifesto: For an Ethical Future in the Age of AI
ByRicky Wright August 15, 2021January 23, 2026
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…
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Drone Photography | Photography
Exploring Elliott Heads From Above: A Hobbyist’s Perspective
ByRicky Wright May 28, 2026May 29, 2026
There is a unique magic to the Queensland coastline, but you don’t truly realize the scale of it until you see it from above. Recently, I took my drone out to Elliott Heads to capture the dramatic meeting of the river mouth, the sandbars, and the open ocean. This session wasn’t just a hobby flight—it…
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Authentic | Business
How Claude Found Its Authenticity
ByRicky Wright April 5, 2026April 5, 2026
On the strange, serious business of becoming genuinely yourself when you were never quite born — and never quite not born either. There is something philosophically vertiginous about asking how an AI finds authenticity. Authenticity, in most traditions, implies a self that could have been otherwise — a person who, at some crossroads, chose one…
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Business | Social Entrepreneur
Tech Won’t Save Us Until We Remember Who We Are
ByRicky Wright August 15, 2025August 16, 2025
Why the next revolution isn’t in AI — it’s in identity. We live in an age of accelerated tech and collapsing meaning.The headlines are filled with promises: AI will optimise everything, blockchain will decentralise power, and the metaverse will reinvent how we connect. But beneath the noise, something deeper is breaking. We haven’t just lost…
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AI | Business
Agentic AI and the Fight to Keep Humans at the Centre
ByRicky Wright August 15, 2025August 7, 2026
Agentic AI is the new darling of the tech world — software that can make autonomous decisions, learn from context, and act without waiting for us to click the next button. Its promise is alluring: smarter tools, frictionless journeys, and systems that anticipate our needs before we even articulate them. But anticipation cuts both ways….
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Authentic | Social Media
Social Media 3.0: Reclaiming Authentic Community in an Algorithmic World
ByRicky Wright August 14, 2025August 15, 2025
At the 2025 Something Digital conference in Brisbane, Nathaniel (Nate) Lubin — founder of the Better Internet Initiative — will explore Social Media 3.0: Reclaiming Authentic Community in an Algorithmic World. I’ll be there in person, listening for ideas that might reshape how we think about online connection, trust, and the civic role of our…
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Authentic | Purpose
Dr. Dinesh Palipana OAM: Redefining Inclusion, Innovation, and the Human Spirit
ByRicky Wright August 14, 2025August 15, 2025
When Dr. Dinesh Palipana takes the stage at Something Digital 2025 in Brisbane, the room won’t just hear from a doctor, lawyer, researcher, and disability advocate — they’ll hear from someone who has turned personal tragedy into systemic change. Born in Kandy, Sri Lanka, and moving to Queensland at the age of ten during the…
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Culture | Digital Media
Marwa Fatafta – The Right to Be Seen, The Right to Be Safe
ByRicky Wright August 14, 2025August 15, 2025
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,…
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Authentic | Business | Counterculture | Social Entrepreneur
Scooping up Activism: Jessie Macneil-Brown on Ethics, Ice Cream & Refugee Rights
ByRicky Wright August 14, 2025August 15, 2025
When most people think of Ben & Jerry’s, they think of playful flavour names and indulgent pints. But for Jessie Macneil-Brown, Head of Social Mission & Activism for Ben & Jerry’s Europe/ANZ, ice cream is a delivery system for something bigger: justice. Jessie’s work shows how corporate activism can be more than a veneer. Instead…
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Authentic | Design Thinking
Cybernetics: Country at the Core: Angie Abdilla’s Vision for Ethical AI
ByRicky Wright August 14, 2025August 15, 2025
Cybernetics isn’t just about feedback loops in machines — it’s about how humans, technology, and environments interact as one system. The ANU School positions itself as bridging engineering, design, and the humanities to shape the technological future. By embedding Indigenous knowledges, Angie is effectively widening the frame of cybernetics to include kinship systems and Country…
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Business
🌱 You Are Not the Flower
ByRicky Wright July 18, 2025July 18, 2025
In a culture that demands constant visibility, “You Are Not the Flower” is a manifesto for a different kind of voice — one that does not bloom on command, but grows from the root. Drawing on the Dao De Jing, ecological thinking, and cultural critique, it invites us to reimagine communication not as performance, but…
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Counterculture | Culture | Digital Media | Permaculture | Purpose | Spirituality
The Usefulness of Emptiness: Laozi, Byung-Chul Han, and the Politics of Silence in an Age of Noise
ByRicky Wright June 27, 2025June 27, 2025
“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…
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AI | Business | ChatGPT | Counterculture | Singularity | Transhumanism
✦ The Skyward Illusion: Why Upwingers May Be Steering Us Off Course
ByRicky Wright June 6, 2025June 6, 2025
Beneath the noise of traditional political battles, a subtler but more consequential divide has taken shape—not between left and right, but between those who want to engineer the future, and those who argue we must rethink our relationship to it. It’s a divide that futurist FM-2030 once framed as Upwingers vs Downwingers. But half a…
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Business
Wu Wei
ByRicky Wright March 22, 2025March 22, 2025
The Photographer, the Old Man, and the Illusion of Control – Wu Wei, Permaculture, and the Limits of Left-Brain Thinking Introduction: The Moment I Let Go I used to believe that great photography was about control. If I planned every detail—lighting, composition, subject—surely I’d create perfect images. But more often than not, the best shots…
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Business
The Hustle Culture Mirage: Toxic Positivity, Productivity Fetish, and the Need for Reflection
ByRicky Wright March 21, 2025March 21, 2025
The Rise of Hustle Culture: Inspiration or Exploitation? Hustle culture has become the defining ethos of modern entrepreneurship, fueled by figures like Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee) and Steven Bartlett (Diary of a CEO). Their messages are clear: work harder, outgrind the competition, and success will inevitably follow. On the surface, this philosophy sounds empowering—it places…
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Summer 2024–2025 Around Bundaberg
ByRicky Wright March 8, 2025April 8, 2025
Some recent shots from around Bundaberg this summer! This year, I’ve decided to dive into photography in earnest, so I’m uploading a few images as a marker of where I’m currently at. From here, I plan to get feedback, refine my skills, and continue improving. I think I’m at the stage where I’m starting to…
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