Devoxx Greece 2024 Protopia Futures: Human Agency vs Tech Theology opening keynote Monika Bielskyte

SciFi movies & popular media headlines often give us an illusion of the “technologically predetermined” direction our future is “inevitably” hurtling towards. Most of these narratives isolate science & technology from human context & exhibit discriminatory bias, limiting, rather than opening our understanding of what is really possible. Monika's talk will explore how the fear based Dystopian & exclusion based Utopia binary futurism perspectives are not the only ways to envisage our collective future & why informed hope is vital in increasing our agency & active participation in future-making as well as support our resiliency & solidarity in the age of intensifying geopolitical destabilization due to disinformation warfare. This keynote will introduce Protopia Futures Design Framework which prioritizes previously marginalized cultural perspectives, life-centric approach & the value of disability & neurodivergence informed innovation.