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Patrick Tanguay
Autodidact. Generalist. Synthesist. Curator of the weekly Sentiers, a newsletter to understand the world and imagine better futures.
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Liberty machines and dark tech ⊗ Tomorrow’s democracy is open source ⊗ The living things that feast on plastic
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Simulating history with ChatGPT ⊗ We should all be Luddites now ⊗ Taking business personally
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Emergencies, frameshifts and what they tell us about our place in the world ⊗ What was Barbara McClintock’s “mysticism”? ⊗ Finding hope in the dark power of fungus
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Why public intellectuals promote an overly simplistic future ⊗ How to prepare for a GenAI future you can’t predict ⊗ Empire of dust what the tiniest specks reveal about the world
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The future thinker’s dilemma ⊗ Hollywood’s future belongs to people—not machines ⊗ Discovering a green Marx
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Building proofs of possibilities for a civic economy and society ⊗ Naturalizing foresight ⊗ The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy
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Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do ⊗ We can’t afford to be climate doomers ⊗ The planet’s economist
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Personal machines and portable worlds ⊗ The 1970s librarians who revolutionised the challenge of search ⊗ Post-Anthropocene Humanism
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To save the planet, should we really be moving slower? ⊗ The true threat of Artificial Intelligence ⊗ What “rewilding” means—and what’s missing from this new movement
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