Team Public

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Are we investing in the right areas to mitigate our most significant risks?

The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Global Risks Report ranks the top threats to our future:

Armed conflict

Extreme weather

Misinformation

Societal polarization

Cyber insecurity

Now here’s where the money went in 2024:

AI: 58% of global VC funding

Cybersecurity: $9.5B (up 9%)

Climate tech: $56B (down 29%)

> We’re pouring billions into AI — but still underfunding the ventures that keep democracies stable, cities livable, and people safe.

Is venture capital building the future the world needs — or just the one it can monetize?

[newpublic]

IF THE PUBLIC IS LOST, CAN WE BUILD IT BACK?

Bruno Latour warned us that it’s not just facts that have collapsed — it’s the very idea of a shared world. When climate, health, and infrastructure all fall into disrepair, it’s not just material loss. It’s a loss of orientation. Of “we.”

But what if rebuilding the public starts with tools? With teams solving air quality in schools, enforcing justice, designing systems that reconnect people to place, to planet, to each other?

These are prototypes for public imagination — experiments in coherence, stitched together in real time.

Still, we ask: Can the public be rebuilt by those outside formal politics? Is the work of civic meaning something you can launch, scale, and iterate? Or does the very idea of building the public reduce it to something it’s not?

[newpublic]

We’re not here to be right.

We’re here to repair. The New Public isn’t an ideology. It’s not a fixed theory or a final answer.It’s a movement of real-world dilemmas — of people building tools, systems, and businesses to confront the cracks in our shared world. These doers don’t replace the state, and they don’t worship the market. They ride the edges, where capability, belief, and democratic values meet. We look across to philosophy — not for doctrine, but for dialogue. We provoke thinkers by doing, and we learn from thinkers by trying. This is a field of public experimentation, a rehearsal for the society we still dare to believe in. We are not post-political. We are pre-alternative.