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This week → We’ve reached a crossroads on our path towards dystopia ⊗ Beyond smart rocks ⊗ How Afrofuturism can help the world mend ⊗ Taiwan’s internet and…
This week → Come for the network, pay for the tool ⊗ Stories on Earth: A collective voice for the human and non-human ⊗ A moment of reflection:…
This week → Jia Tolentino on practicing the discipline of hope ⊗ Liminal space ⊗ Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts…
This week → The loss of public goods to big tech ⊗ Why 2020 to 2050 will be ‘the most transformative decades in human history’ ⊗ The myth…
This week → A new land contract ⊗ The slow road to sudden change ⊗ Defund the police, but don’t replace it with surveillance tech ⊗ The pandemic…
This week → Racial Capitalism, The Stack and the Green New Deal ⊗ The righteous joy of finding the right simplifier ⊗ COVID-19 Broke the economy. What if…
This week → The long shadow of the future ⊗ The sickness in our food supply ⊗ Pandemic futures ⊗ Our cities only serve the wealthy. Coronavirus could…
This week → Universal basic everything ⊗ Managing Abyss Gaze in a time of difficult futures ⊗ The end of efficiency ⊗ The deepening paradox ⊗ On the…
This week → Thinking in maps: from the Lascaux caves to knowledge graphs ⊗ The Great Film Production Renaissance: Are you ready? ⊗ The Insecurity Machine ⊗ The…
This week → The umami theory of value ⊗ Cultural invention ⊗ The spaces that make cities fairer and more resilient ⊗ End of the ‘human climate niche’…
This week → Facing the Age of Chaos ⊗ The Screen New Deal ⊗ It’s Only going to get weirder ⊗ The Secret Lives of Fungi ⊗ Stanislaw…
This week → Living with just enough ⊗ Life less normal ⊗ Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent ⊗ The history…
This week → Home Screens ⊗ The conditions conducive to life ⊗ Not fit for this future ⊗ Can speculative journalism help us prepare for what’s to come?…
This week → Hail the maintainers ⊗ It’s time to build (is it?) ⊗ Tokyo as slowdown city ⊗ Mass consumption is what ails us A year ago…
This week → After dread ⊗ Civil society in a digital world ⊗ These are conditions in which revolution becomes thinkable ⊗ The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take…
This week → 18 lessons of quarantine urbanism ⊗ Slowdown papers ⊗ Rush to the future ⊗ Design for systems, not users ⊗ Getting compound interest on your…
This week → Premonition ⊗ This is not the apocalypse you were looking for ⊗ Perhaps China’s centralised supply chain won’t last forever ⊗ After supply chain capitalism…
This week → Ecological crises and equitable futures ⊗ AI is an ideology, not a technology ⊗ Why don’t we just ban targeted advertising? ⊗ That feeling of…
This week → Why superheroes are the shape of tech things to come ⊗ Where be dragons? ⊗ Defining information ⊗ Leading by example A year ago →…
This week → A blank page for a new beginning ⊗ We’re destroying the Earth’s layer of life ⊗ How futurists cope with uncertainty ⊗ Cory Doctorow explains…
This week → Progress, postmodernism and the tech backlash ⊗ Jan Morris: ‘You’re talking to someone at the very end of things’ ⊗ How to design a smart…
This week → Digital socialism ⊗ Trees as infrastructure ⊗ On distortion ⊗ A text renaissance A year ago → Rebecca Solnit on a childhood of reading and…
This week → Calling for a more-than-human politics ⊗ Sense-makers vs. map-makers ⊗ Narrative strategy ⊗ The personified city A year ago → Metamodern Values for a Listening…
This week → Anthropology, cybernetics, and establishing a new branch of engineering at ANU ⊗ Centaurs or butlers? Designing for human relationships with non-human intelligences ⊗ The manifesto…