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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı is a critical futurist, writer, journalist and activist. He’s currently working as an independent critical futures and foresight practitioner, and co-founder and Strategy Coordinator of NewsLabTurkey.

His critical futures work includes consulting, public writing and research. He runs the experimental critical futures and futures literacy practice Tuhaf Gelecek (in Turkish) since 2015. He gives public speeches about the futures of media, technology, society, and regularly invited as an expert guests on these issues in Turkish media.

As an activist, he’s been actively involved in digital rights, anti-censorship and anti-surveillance activism since 2010. He’s a member of Alternative Informatics Association, and a founding me ...more

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	Geleceği İcat Etmek: Postkapitalizm ve Çalışmanın Olmadığı Bir Dünya by Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, Ahmet Alphan Sabancı (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 2,610 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Herkese Söyle: Sosyal Medya'da Neden Paylaşımda Bulunuruz by Alfred Hermida (Goodreads Author), Ahmet Alphan Sabancı (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kent Bizim: 1970'lerden Günümüze Avrupa'da İşgalevcilik ve Otonom Hareketler by Bart van der Steen (Editor), Ask Katzeff (Editor), Leendert van Hoogenhuijze (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hack Kültürü ve Hacktivizm: Mustafa Akgül'e Armağan by Ali Rıza Keles (Editor), Yetkin Sal (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ulvi Yaman (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Telesağlık Temel Başvuru Kitabı by İlker Küçükparlak (Editör), Hakan Karaş (Editör), Ahmet Alphan Sabancı (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Last week was a total mess. Not because of work or anything like that but after barely having anything similar like it, we had two school shootings in Turkey in two days. If you’re familiar with how these events are discussed in US, you have a really good idea about the situation in Turkey as well. And my wife being a teacher made all of that even worse for us.

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Superforecasting

by Philip E. Tetlock

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Visionary in Residence

by Bruce Sterling

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Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

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