The advertisement drafts from the MarCom department for the new UAV base, and Avery chuckled at how stylize the graphics were. Someone at MarCom apparently rediscovered Constructivism.
While the district was mostly urban, there were some high performing urban farms at the far edge of the district. These were located upwind, and while not a large agriculture complex, it fulfilled most of the districts food needs, and was the source of additional credits from a variety of cash crops for sale on the larger exchange. There were a variety of both open-air crops fields and standard greenhouses. The only new things was the UAV base which was one of Avery’s initial contributions, which was about to open.
The base – which had some fancy backronym Avery couldn’t remember – had a central office and storehouse, with landing zones around the perimeter to allow a new set of UAV’s to land, refuel, and reload their cargo; generally these drones were macrodosing the fields with pesticides, genetic starters, or augmenting the ground drones with feedstocks. While the district wasn’t able to fully automate the process, much of it was augmented by drones or other such technology. This required a hefty comms mast full of the usual set of GPS, GLONASS, DWSS emitters, and LiDAR to give the drones confidence moving about the fields and greenhouses.
What...is this?
I’ve been playing around with large language models and text-to-image tools since they first came out. Avery's Journey is a self-directed design fiction exercise and dance with MidJourney and other large language models using street furniture and possible future urbanity as an archetype. These vignettes are little design challenges I’m coming up with, combining Design Fiction and ML/AI. It’s been fun crafting and thinking about what design problems our near-future designer Avery has to contend with, as they go about their career journey.
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Making it up as we go along
I’m not sure what I’m doing.
As a small business owner, I know what annual revenue number I need to achieve to break even, what number for healthy profit, and what number I would like to get to. I’ve broken out what monthly and weekly revenue rate I need to achieve.
Yet everyday I have less confidence on what actions get me to that number. I have a faint, gut feeling, on how much time to spend on projects, time spent on business development, and time spent on speculative ventures. If I had my way I would spend all my time just making things, but that feels very selfish and robbing future me of possible opportunities.
How do you decide what to spend your finite time?
Elsewhere
The Bowerbird combines excuses to not build, the major players: government, NIMBY’s, YIMBY’s, builders, and such. Throw in some zoning and procedure tactics, and different typologies of homes, and all of a sudden we have a slightly disjointed faux-transport diagram.
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