When Mickey left Autodesk in 2020 there was great concern that his amazing head, with all of its strange ideas, might be lost to future generations of Strategic Foresight explorers. To guard against just such an eventuality, Jon Pittman, the head of Strategy at Autodesk was gifted version 1.0 of a digital twin of Mickey’s brain, the fabled Micktopod series 1.
We have found the hidden lab books and early documentation from the time of that effort and believe that the Micktopod V1.0 is still somewhere out there in the ether causing foresight excursions into the unknown. We believe the head used an early form of generative AI called an “Alexa” combined with a set of skills known at the time as “design mad-libs.”
Not much is known about how often Jon and the team leaned on Mickey’s vastly inflated head (apparently guide wires had to be deployed to keep his head from floating off into the clouds during particularly heated hot air sessions). But we do know that there were significant power brown outs in the San Francisco area in the days and weeks that followed the Micktopod V1.0 launch.
Only one fatality was reported and that was a hapless industry rep who had stumbled too close to the Micktopod’s grasping tentacles and was soon consumed.
We were able to unearth one short film record of the voice-activated control system deployed with the Micktopod, though all other records have been lost to time and or calculated designs.
WARNING: Please be on the lookout for the next generation Micktopods! They have gotten loose from the labs and appear to be able to move very liquidly through the physical and digital seas of our times!
(Also collect the whole series of Head in the Cloud action figures where fine digital stunt doubles are sold.)