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How Design Is Governance ⊗ Where Ideas Come From ⊗ “This Studio Is a Response to Hopelessness About the Future”

Why an Easier Life Is Not Necessarily Happier ⊗ What A.I. Risks We Should Really Be Worried About ⊗ Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles

Will AI Become the New McKinsey? ⊗ Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution ⊗ Degrowth in Japan

Playing the Future ⊗ Deskilling on the Job ⊗ How We Ended up in the Era of ‘Quantitative Aesthetics’

Radical Design for a World in Crisis ⊗ The Catalogers ⊗ Collective Mental Time Travel Can Influence the Future

Through the Looking Glass ⊗ Intelligence Superabundance ⊗ The One About AI

Resisting Deterministic Thinking ⊗ The Green Techno-Dream Is so Vastly Destructive ⊗ How to Rest Well

What Is to Be Done? ⊗ The Future of Strategic Decision-Making ⊗ Just How Big Could the Brittleness Bubble Get?

To Shape the Future, We Must First Understand the Present ⊗ Society’s Technical Debt and Software’s Gutenberg Moment ⊗ We Don’t Need New Tech to Fight Climate Change

Some recurring inquiries

• Where is technology going, how can it be more humane?
• How can we bring about the futures we want?
• What are the important signals of change and past lessons which might provide glimpses of what’s coming?
• How should cities evolve for their citizens?
• Are AIs new competitors or new companions?
• What of the climate, ecosystems, and systems in general?