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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

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

Francisco de Burgoa Library in Oaxaca, Mexico? By Rafael M. on Unsplash.

AI and Trust ⊗ This Is Your Brain on Books ⊗ Should Synthetic Biology Be the Next Decade’s Big Bet to Tackle Climate Change?

Arindam Mahanta on Unsplash.

Two notes on harmony

Gray and blue shoreline, Vik, Iceland. By Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash.

Positive climate tipping points ⊗ The battle for AI’s future ⊗ The ‘Georgists’ are out there

Chemin de l’Île-Grandbois, Saint-Casimir, by Mériol Lehmann.

The dangers of our net zero obsession ⊗ The origins of AI’s ideological divide ⊗ Don’t call me an “urbanist”