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Media ecology ⊗ Ways of flourishing ⊗ Cheap solar panels are changing the world
No.331 — Da Vinci’s boundless curiosity ⊗ Gods, interns, and cogs ⊗ Risks on the horizon ⊗ Australia’s green revolution in urban spaces
Your Futures Thinking Observatory
A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
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Storytelling as gift, storytelling as currency ⊗ (Re)Negotiating utopias and dystopias ⊗ Does Open Source AI really exist?
No.330 — The power of “radical optimism” ⊗ Library of Possibilities ⊗ The Veridica Trade ⊗ The greening of Antarctica
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Arboreal codes ⊗ Conceptual models of space colonization ⊗ AI companies trying to build god
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
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Seeing like a simulation ⊗ The “Whisperverse” ⊗ Risks vs. Harms: Youth & social media
No.328 — The destructo test ⊗ Seeding futures for wellbeing ⊗ AlphaChip transformed computer chip design ⊗ Tiny prairies for sustainability boons
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After software eats the world, what comes out the other end? ⊗ Building a public energy commons ⊗ Unplugging is not the solution you want
No.327 — What’s a Brain? ⊗ The world’s weirdest library ⊗ A strategic simulation ⊗ Nvidia just dropped a bombshell
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Perception (n) versus perception (v) ⊗ An ontology of havoc ⊗ The unraveling of space-time
No.326 — Protopia for screenwriters ⊗ Imagining the future to bring people closer ⊗ Gracious AI ethics ⊗ Pact for the Future
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The Generalist Syndrome
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.
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The subprime AI crisis ⊗ The next great divide ⊗ Promiscuous pedagogies
No.325 — To understand Mississippi with a 480-year-old map ⊗ Once Upon A Future ⊗ Computational reproducibility
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Folklore is philosophy ⊗ Virtual friends, real feelings ⊗ Why we fear diverse intelligence like AI
No.324 — Is this climate tech start-up going rogue? ⊗ Dynamicland intro ⊗ World-fleshing ⊗ As climate threats to agriculture mount
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Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis ⊗ When utopia is oblivion ⊗ Kardashev Street
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
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The past’s futures haunt us ⊗ AI scaling myths ⊗ The politics of information
No.322 — Shelter in place ⊗ The Doc web ⊗ Brian Eno and the job of art ⊗ Mapping archetypes and after capitalism
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Decoding Eno’s generative structure ⊗ Against the ideas of the nineteen-hundreds ⊗ Utopia is Oblivion
No.321 — Actually, everyone’s life is weird ⊗ Insights from science fiction ⊗ No one’s ready for this ⊗ Trees Are the Seeds of Human Creativity
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Frameworks ⊗ Think better ⊗ Three reasons we’re in an AI bubble
No.320 — Brownfields to blooming meadows, with fungi ⊗ Trajectories for future festivals ⊗ Singing better worlds to life