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WEBINAR 20 MAY 16:30 UTC - Folk Tech x Protopian Prize - Storytelling Workshop + Connection Call

REGISTER | ADD TO CALENDAR | PERMALINK On Wednesday, May 20 2026 at 12:30-14:00 EDT (16:30-18:00 UTC) Folktech will join with Protopian Prize to host a Storytelling Workshop. The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest that asks what we can envision as people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change. “Protopian”—a word coined by Kevin Kelly, one of the contest’s…

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Technology is a means of producing new problems. It's a means of producing new solutions, but the fact that we have a choice between those two is what tips the balance very, very slightly in the favor of the good for the long term. Over civilization scale, we have this net tiny incremental accumulation of these choices over time, and that tiny accumulation is what we call progress. If you have one percent compounded annually, that can be very, very powerful. It doesn't seem like very much. What's one percent? But when you compound this accumulation of choices and options over time, that's what civilization is. It's the slow accumulation of a very tiny increase in new choices over time.

Kevin Kelly at Edge. The Technium

A conversation with Kevin Kelly