A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.334 — Amulets against the spirits of the age ⊗ On distortion ⊗ Build your own commissioner ⊗ Liquid AI
No.333 — With AI, the future of Augmented Reality is in your ears ⊗ Why every company needs a futurist-in-residence ⊗ AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations ⊗ Bringing life to L.A.’s infrastructure
No.332 — AI’s “human in the loop” isn’t ⊗ I’m running out of ways to explain how bad this is ⊗ Jules Verne’s technocratic worldmaking
No.331 — Da Vinci’s boundless curiosity ⊗ Gods, interns, and cogs ⊗ Risks on the horizon ⊗ Australia’s green revolution in urban spaces
No.330 — The power of “radical optimism” ⊗ Library of Possibilities ⊗ The Veridica Trade ⊗ The greening of Antarctica
No.329 — It feels like 2004 again ⊗ Three Future Frames ⊗ What is futures literacy ⊗ Cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities ⊗ Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year
No.328 — The destructo test ⊗ Seeding futures for wellbeing ⊗ AlphaChip transformed computer chip design ⊗ Tiny prairies for sustainability boons
No.327 — What’s a Brain? ⊗ The world’s weirdest library ⊗ A strategic simulation ⊗ Nvidia just dropped a bombshell
No.326 — Protopia for screenwriters ⊗ Imagining the future to bring people closer ⊗ Gracious AI ethics ⊗ Pact for the Future
Where I explore the concept of “generalist syndrome,” in which individuals with a wide range of skills may unknowingly limit themselves by relying on their own capabilities instead of considering alternative, potentially more effective solutions.
No.325 — To understand Mississippi with a 480-year-old map ⊗ Once Upon A Future ⊗ Computational reproducibility
No.324 — Is this climate tech start-up going rogue? ⊗ Dynamicland intro ⊗ World-fleshing ⊗ As climate threats to agriculture mount
No.323 — Solar power will change the climate ⊗ A fossil fuel economy requires more mining than a clean energy economy ⊗ The return of the grand narrative
