A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.356 — Do data centres dream of electric pasture? ⊗ Insights from the global south ⊗ Wrestling with originality ⊗ Wooden wind turbine towers ⊗ The phony physics of Star Wars
No.355 — BBC, foresight, an AI-mediated future ⊗ Lyonne, Marling, Lanier, AI ⊗ Sponge produces water from thin air ⊗ Extraordinary forgotten books
No.354 — Design fiction worksheet ⊗ 8 principles for the future of AI ⊗ Rare Earth elements aren’t actually all that rare ⊗ Graphene biosensor tattoos
No.353 — On trees as infrastructure ⊗ Astrofuturism ⊗ China’s AI boom ⊗ The Bluetooth lady
No.352 — Every 80 years, reinvention ⊗ Beyond the Torment Nexus ⊗ How AI actually “thinks” ⊗ What if... we experienced the future?
No.351 — Copyright-aware AI ⊗ Aperture ⊗ The Longevity Economy ⊗ DeepMind holding back release of AI research
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
