A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.375 — Future Risks Report ⊗ AI for scientific discovery is a social problem ⊗ Mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution ⊗ Codex Atlanticus
No.374 — Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble ⊗ Invest in your expeditionary teams ⊗ Young people in China are embracing AI therapy ⊗ The Evolving Doughnut
No.373 — At The Edge of Here ⊗ The Next Four Years ⊗ There will always only be one Jane Goodall ⊗ The cross-section king
No.372 — What’s guiding our Regenerative Futures? ⊗ The way we think about the future needs to change ⊗ AlphaEarth tracks Earth’s changes ⊗ England’s ice-age ghost ponds
How we research, write, and read with AI—or not. Some tricks and recommended apps and services to leverage AI as a thinking assistant.
No.371 — Why 95% of AI commentary fails ⊗ Designing futures you can live in ⊗ AI water usage at data centers ⊗ “Solarize everything we possibly can” ⊗ Warsaw opens metro station “express” library
No.370 — It’s time to work different ⊗ Paths to better thinking ⊗ The Weight of Time ⊗ The hot air factory ⊗ The first evidence of a take-off in solar in Africa
No.369 — African time concepts and futures thinking ⊗ ChatGPT’s memory dossier ⊗ Resilient food systems ⊗ Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds’ day
No.368 — Dystopias now ⊗ Designing with Futures ⊗ LLMs’ reasoning abilities are a brittle mirage ⊗ three books dot net
No.367 — How to not build the Torment Nexus ⊗ When the future pushes back ⊗ Meta freezes AI hiring ⊗ Drones to deliver millions of mosquitoes ⊗ Bad luck, hot rocks
No.366 — Interviews with Brian Eno ⊗ Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology ⊗ Transcribing eyeglasses put subtitles on the world ⊗ NASA satellite may be destroyed on purpose ⊗ Deep sea cables that power the world
No.365 — From futurephobia to futuretopia ⊗ Computing, life, and intelligence ⊗ Robots “walk” historic building complex ⊗ The wild within the walls
No.364 — The future of human health ⊗ Ten truths I’m holding about futures ⊗ A new social contract for the Age of AI ⊗ A lush tour of Fallingwater
