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Patrick Tanguay

Autodidact. Generalist. Synthesist. Curator of the weekly Sentiers, a newsletter to understand the world and imagine better futures.

Montreal

Multiplayer futures ⊗ What has feelings? ⊗ How I research a new subject

Multiplayer futures ⊗ What has feelings? ⊗ How I research a new subject

ChatGPT Is a blurry jpeg of the web ⊗ On technological optimism and technological pragmatism ⊗ Paying ourselves to decarbonize

ChatGPT Is a blurry jpeg of the web ⊗ On technological optimism and technological pragmatism ⊗ Paying ourselves to decarbonize

Creatures that don’t conform ⊗ We’ve always been distracted, or at least worried that we are ⊗ Dark futures

Creatures that don’t conform ⊗ We’ve always been distracted, or at least worried that we are ⊗ Dark futures

Unease, writing, and thinking

Unease, writing, and thinking ⊗ The art of futuring ⊗ Material intelligence

Unease, writing, and thinking ⊗ The art of futuring ⊗ Material intelligence

The map room is a physical room-size wiki for collaboration from the 1950s ⊗ Computers enable fantasies ⊗ Imagination Infrastructure — what do we mean?

The map room is a physical room-size wiki for collaboration from the 1950s ⊗ Computers enable fantasies ⊗ Imagination Infrastructure — what do we mean?

How to think about what’s possible for tomorrow ⊗ AI hybrids ⊗ Why not Mars

How to think about what’s possible for tomorrow ⊗ AI hybrids ⊗ Why not Mars

Ambiance & Attention

Lonely surfaces ⊗ A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar. ⊗ Degrowth can work

Lonely surfaces ⊗ A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar. ⊗ Degrowth can work

Unmanaged expectations ⊗ Intertwining Indigenous knowledge with synthetic biology ⊗ Mastodon isn’t just a replacement for Twitter

Unmanaged expectations ⊗ Intertwining Indigenous knowledge with synthetic biology ⊗ Mastodon isn’t just a replacement for Twitter

Expanding the futures cone’s concept of the futures and the pasts ⊗ Reading as counter-practice ⊗ A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft videos

Expanding the futures cone’s concept of the futures and the pasts ⊗ Reading as counter-practice ⊗ A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft videos

Can solarpunk save the world? ⊗ A great leap forward in AI ⊗ Neal Stephenson’s vision is very much alive

Can solarpunk save the world? ⊗ A great leap forward in AI ⊗ Neal Stephenson’s vision is very much alive