Donuts and Dyson spheres ⊗ Eight Google employees invented modern AI ⊗ Is $38 trillion a lot?
No.307 — Why the world cannot afford the rich ⊗ The information grey goo ⊗ AI “deathbots” are helping people in China grieve
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No.307 — Why the world cannot afford the rich ⊗ The information grey goo ⊗ AI “deathbots” are helping people in China grieve
No.306 — What are the odds? ⊗ We need more calm companies ⊗ Future Days festival recap ⊗ Much of “AI” is just outsourcing
No.305 — AI has an Uber problem ⊗ Out-random the AI ⊗ 1967 scientists predict the 21st century ⊗ Around the future in eighty worlds
No.304 — Everything is interesting ⊗ City scanning ⊗ Nvidia 2024 AI Event ⊗ Speaking without vocal cords
No.303 — What monks know about focus ⊗ The end of shared reality ⊗ Inflection is eaten alive by its biggest investor
No.302 — Global population collapse isn’t sci-fi anymore ⊗ Predicting the traffic jam, imagining the stoplight ⊗ AI news that’s fit to print
No.301 — Nobody owns the technofuture ⊗ Forty-one per cent of architects now using AI ⊗ Work is a place ⊗ Enhancing education with foresight
No.300 — We just haven’t been capitalisming hard enough ⊗ Kohei Saito on degrowth communism ⊗ Holding back the Sahara desert
No.299 — On spatial computing, metaverse, the terms left Behind and ideas renewed ⊗ Where will Virtual Reality take us? ⊗ The Curiosity Matrix: 9 habits of curious minds
No.298 — Overpromising & stumbling Bambis ⊗ The scarcity of the long-term ⊗ Are fictional dystopias blocking us from better futures? ⊗ Measuring AI’s environmental impacts
No.297 — Why the debate about the future of AI needs less Darwin and more Latour ⊗ The part of the brain that controls movement also guides feelings
No.296 — The rise of techno-authoritarianism ⊗ A new global gender divide is emerging ⊗ The question is, what is The Question? ⊗ Matriarchal Design Futures
No.295 — The sublimation hour ⊗ Humanity’s inability to tackle the climate crisis ⊗ The 2024 climate fiction contest collection ⊗ Altman’s self-serving vision of the future