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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

Perpetual Motion, 1931, Asahachi Kono.

Are we watching the internet die? ⊗ Robots and humans teaming up ⊗ Futures as a mirror of society

Synthetic voices from the past. Generated with Midjourney.

Massed Muddler Intelligence ⊗ Active vs passive learning ⊗ The staggering impacts of the cloud

An image often used through the history of Sentiers, Jonas Verstuyft’s photo of Fabiano De Martin’s spacesuit sculpture.

Secularization comes for the religion of technology ⊗ Disengage ⊗ Nvidia eating the world

Spooky town by Drew Tilk on Unsplash.

The state of the culture, 2024 ⊗ Stephenson’s most stunning prediction ⊗ Bringing in the rain

Metaphors make the world. Made with Midjourney.

Metaphors make the world ⊗ The OpenAI endgame ⊗ Apple Vision Pro urban encounter

Software is beating the world ⊗ Visions for Vision Pro ⊗ The philosophy of co-becoming

Software is beating the world ⊗ Visions for Vision Pro ⊗ The philosophy of co-becoming

Japan, Fukushima City, Forest for Birds (Kotori no Mori).

Feral Minds ⊗ General Purpose AI and Harm ⊗ Understanding 5 Key Phrases

Four characters representing distinct genres of futurist rhetoric.

What we talk about when we talk about The Future ⊗ Polyfuturism ⊗ The downward spiral of technology

An Alternate History of Human Potential ⊗ The Tyranny of the Algorithm ⊗ The Coming Storm

An Alternate History of Human Potential ⊗ The Tyranny of the Algorithm ⊗ The Coming Storm

‘Whatever it takes’ to limit climate change

‘Whatever it takes’ to limit climate change

To own the future, read Shakespeare ⊗ It’s time to dismantle the technopoly ⊗ Accelerationist possibilities

To own the future, read Shakespeare ⊗ It’s time to dismantle the technopoly ⊗ Accelerationist possibilities

The interstitium but not the interstitium. Made with Midjourney.

Invisible Landscapes ⊗ Freeing Ourselves From the Clutches of Big Tech ⊗ Deep in the Wilderness