Noise & Meaning

About

Every week, a new system claims to bring order to the noise: and yet, the world feels less predictable than ever. Information feels infinite yet insight feels scarce. With synthetic content multiplying and truth itself up for debate, even reality is becoming harder to read. The result is a dense fog of insight-like noise, where even our most trusted indicators fail to point the way.

Against this background – where the old architecture of knowledge no longer holds, and the new one isn’t yet reliable – this conversation explores how leaders can navigate this moment of information chaos and find orientation in the noise.

Speaker bios

Mark Alizart is a philosopher who specialises in questions related to the internet. He’s the author of several essays, including Dogs (Polity, 2019), Cryptocommunism (Polity, 2020) and a recent book about the political causes for the climate crisis, titled The Climate Coup.

Daphnée Hor is a strategic foresight specialist whose work sits at the intersection of culture, business, and societal change. She is the founder of Shift Happens, a foresight advisory that blends cultural analysis, strategic futures, and business design to guide organisations through periods of rapid transformation. She previously led the Breakthrough Innovation Group and cultural foresight practice at Pernod Ricard and teaches strategic and cultural foresight at Université Paris Cité.

Charlotte Vangsgaard is the board chair at ReD. Across her diverse set of clients from iconic luxury goods to healthcare, Charlotte specialises in deriving commercial value from a strategy aligned around social possibilities. All of her client work – as well as her most recent writing – explores innovative ways to apply social science theory to business problems.