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# MetaCAugs Newsletter April 12

Dear Co-Learners,

- Our previous session was mainly about Digital Nomads. You can still watch it on [YouTube](https://youtu.be/avWItWkpHj8), listen and read on [Otter.ai](https://otter.ai/note/224WBDFUAOIDDRUT?g=34692&f=group&r=%2Fgroup%2F34692&h=Open%20Learning%20Commons%20Collective) and have a look at our [Miro board](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kwyBtRA=/). 

- I finished the [Futures Thinking Specialization](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/futures-thinking) on Coursera, five courses by futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal (researcher at the Institute for the Future - IFTF). I tried to turn the course into a list of patterns on [federated wiki](http://roland.wiki.openlearning.cc/), please have a look and maybe some of these patterns are useful to you. Most recently I added the Roadmap for Action, Artifacts from the Future and the Pledge. 

- Talking about the IFTF, they developed a pattern called [Looking Back to Look Forward](http://roland.wiki.openlearning.cc/view/welcome-visitors/view/history). So I tried to look back into the history of Digital Nomads in order to see possible futures scenarios for Digital Nomadism. I made a [timeline in a hack.md document](https://hackmd.io/qKMZZM_eQZOlSGJmcml7xg). Please have a look at it, modify and add if you want. Does it learn you anything about the future? Are there any patterns? 

- A question I'd like to ask here and during our upcoming session (another quest) is about the [pull of the future](http://roland.wiki.openlearning.cc/view/welcome-visitors/view/pull-of-the-future). When we think about Digital Nomads, online collaboration and living, what is the pull of the future, the push of the present and the weight of the past? 

- I made an artifact of the future. It comes from a world where our thoughts and experiences can be recorded via a brain implant and stored in the cloud. An artifact from the future is an ordinary object from a future world (physical or digital), and in our current world it is a conversation starter. 
![](https://i.imgur.com/JaFtINf.jpg).

- Could YOU make an artifact from a future world where we all would be Digital (Armchair)Nomads? Like this **[Workstation for Armchair Digital Nomads](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dc/bc/b8/dcbcb881efce4118cd6255bef1c75a2e.jpg)**. It actually exists, but you could add an explanation telling people it's also suited for VR, AR and for the use of telepresence devices such as telerobots and drones. 

- MetaCAugs meet weekly on Tuesdays @ 3PM ET at this [https://zoom.us/j/903709439](https://zoom.us/j/903709439). If you like, you can subscribe to this recurring event using the [Open Learning Commons calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=n9q2hnr8lh3223ul1rc6pohms8%40group.calendar.google.com). Click the Google logo in the bottom right.

See you on Tuesday or on Telegram!

Roland







