The document discusses various potential apocalyptic scenarios related to technology, including climate crisis, mass extinction, digital serfdom, data-driven policy-making, soft robotics, self-governed forests, state machismo, universal AI, machine intelligence, terraforming, nuclear war, humanoid robots, mass migration, and social robots. It references how these scenarios could play out in spectacular or mundane ways and how focusing too much on potential dystopian futures could amount to "selling our souls to the machines" or engaging in "apocalypse kitsch."

1. Apocalypse Kitsch
Martin Pichlmair
Associate Professor, IT University Copenhagen
Co-Founder, Broken Rules GmbH

6. videogames

7. interactive cognition

8. Mind
World
Action

9. Apocalypse Kitsch

11. The End
RealSpeculative
Spectacular
Mundane
Machine Intelligence
Terraforming
Nuclear War
Humanoid Robots

15. Selling our Souls
to the
Machines

19. The End
RealSpeculative
Spectacular
Mundane
Climate Crisis
Mass Extinction
Digital Serfdom
Data-Driven Policy-Making
Soft Robotics
Machine Intelligence
Terraforming
Nuclear War
Humanoid Robots

20. Machines of Loving Grace

21. Richard Brautigan 1967

25. The End
RealSpeculative
Spectacular
Mundane
Climate Crisis
Mass Extinction
Digital Serfdom
Data-Driven Policy-Making
Soft Robotics
Self-Governed Forests
State Machismo
Universal AI
Machine Intelligence
Terraforming
Nuclear War
Humanoid Robots

29. The End
RealSpeculative
Spectacular
Mundane
Climate Crisis
Mass Extinction
Digital Serfdom
Data-Driven Policy-Making
Soft Robotics
Self-Governed Forests
State Machismo
Universal AI
Machine Intelligence
Terraforming
Nuclear War
Humanoid Robots
Mass Migration
Social Robots

30. Thank You!
Martin Pichlmair
@martinpi / mpic@itu.dk