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We’re Automating Ourselves Out of the Picture. Apparently We Think That's Fine.
Designing New Systems That Reward Capability, Not Just Output
What Does Ownership Look Like When Your Identity Can Be Edited.
Everyone Is Reachable All the Time. Loneliness Keeps Rising.
When Answers Are Always Available, Learning Stops Taking Root.
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Learning
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Jan 08 2026
CounterCurrent is a studio and playground for exploring the human consequences of digital acceleration.
When automation reshapes how we work, learn, create and relate, old systems quietly stop working. We examine what needs protecting, and what needs reimagining. Not to optimise the future, but to make it liveable. Because it’s clear that the machines don’t care about our retirement plan.
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How might we redevelop uniquely human capacities when progress replaces them
Learning
| Time, friction, internalisation
What does learning become when answers are instant, effort is optional, and remembering is no longer required?
Skill
| Practice, feedback, visible process
When competence is automated or obscured, how is real ability developed, and how do we learn to trust it?
Creativity
| Constraint, failure, commitment
What makes craft valuable when polish is fast, cheap and effortless?
Connection
| Vulnerability, presence, shared risk
How do trust, empathy, and mutual recognition form when interaction is mediated, optimised and simulated?
Identity
| Ownership, accountability, authorship
What does it mean to be someone when voice, image, and ideas are reproducible?
Embodiment
| Sensory experience, attention, play
What regains value when much of life is lived at a distance?
We share essays, episodic conversations, and early experiments for what we think the future might need. No spam. No hysteria. Just a space to be part of the change.