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The Gen AI bridge to the future ⊗ Genetic discrimination is coming ⊗ Many worlds, many selves
No.336 — Rhizomatic thinking to unlock new ideas ⊗ USV built an AI brain ⊗ Trippy worm ooze ⊗ A new golden age of discovery
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A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
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Accidentally building a planetary brain ⊗ The death of critical thinking ⊗ On AI and its existential risks
No.335 — Intertextuality ⊗ Low-carbon tech needs much fewer materials ⊗ You exist in the long context ⊗ Plastic-eating insect discovered
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AI is about power, not technology ⊗ AI’s hidden impact on human thought ⊗ Companies creating food out of thin air
No.334 — Amulets against the spirits of the age ⊗ On distortion ⊗ Build your own commissioner ⊗ Liquid AI
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More-than-human aesthetics ⊗ Enchanted knowledge objects in LLM UI ⊗ Native Americans guarded against tyranny
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
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Not my problem ⊗ The radical optimism of David Graeber ⊗ On transitioning to a regenerative mindset
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
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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
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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