Plenty of brilliant people are doing the serious thinking about what’s wrong with tech.

This workshop is about bringing fun to the table.

Humor is a beautiful tool to mock the powerful, show people what's wrong with tech, and make us feel marginally less depressed about the world burning around us. So let's use it!

In this workshop:

• We'll come up with ten themes (e.g. weirdos trying to live forever, or how we have zero control over our data), ten formats (fake startup, new tech law), and split into ten groups to create absurd satirical concepts/parodies using a given format and theme.
• You'll receive guidance on how to make your satirical concept slap as much as possible.
• We'll round up with lightning-fast presentations to the group about our new concepts, presenting them as straight-facedly as possible.
• And there'll be an opportunity to keep the fun going afterwards — to turn your satire into something real that goes out into the big wide world.

To put it simply — it'll be a big laugh! Bring a sense of humor, an appetite for fun, and your craziest ideas.

Who am I?

I'm Louis, a Senior Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation and the editor of new tech publication Attention to make tech fun again.

Attention's projects so far include:

• The Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers — featured by The Verge and reposted by Timnit Gebru, Emily Bender and 'godfather of AI' Yann LeCun.
• Together with Nitya Kuthiala, The Box — the world's first anti-deepfake wearable. The Box was also featured by The Verge and has come to MozFest as an installation, go try it out!