A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.350 — Stories from the Future ⊗ Everything is Ghibli ⊗ Wild parrots in anthropocene cities ⊗ 1.5-million-year-old bone tools
No.349 — Dubai is a vision of the future ⊗ The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League ⊗ Objects from the future ⊗ Indigenous groups safeguarding culture ⊗ Technofossils
No.348 — OpenAI declares AI race “over” ⊗ What’s the deal with Manus? ⊗ World’s first “Synthetic Biological Intelligence”
No.347 — The handoff to bots ⊗ AI for Future Cities ⊗ FLORA ⊗ Why ancient roman concrete was so durable
No.346 — Cultural intelligence in the Age of AI ⊗ AI to “Neutralize the Accent” of Indian Employees ⊗ Small Vehicles of Shanghai
No.345 — Principles for the permaweird ⊗ Corporate foresight ⊗ The NYT and internal AI tools ⊗ The Luddite Club
No.344 — Major AI copyright case in the US ⊗ Toolkit for applied strategic foresight ⊗ The Anthropic Economic Index ⊗ The Forest Speaks
No.343 — Archigram keeps the dream alive ⊗ The META Trending Trends ⊗ AI to revolutionise fundamental physics ⊗ Inventing the Renaissance
No.342 — Hypernormalisation ⊗ Getting to know futures studies ⊗ DeepSeek reader ⊗ Chinese fusion power generation
DeepSeek is exploding onto the AI scene and already having a massive impact on AI labs, investors, business models, forecasts, and more. Here’s your overview and reading list.
No.341 — A Newspaper from a (Near) Future ⊗ The global struggle over how to regulate AI ⊗ These homes withstood the LA fires
No.340 — Artists challenge us to imagine a more optimistic world ⊗ How AI uncovers new ways to tackle difficult diseases ⊗ Libraries positively impact community health and well-being
No.339 — Did OpenAI just solve abstract reasoning? ⊗ Kind and wicked learning environments ⊗ Foresight Timeline ⊗ DeepSeek outpaces tech giants
