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This week → Decision trees ⊗ R2D2 as a model for AI collaboration ⊗ Civic logic: social media with opinion and purpose ⊗ The way we train AI…
This week → Plastic is a brilliant material. But our relationship with it is trash ⊗ A guide to great sci-fi about the future ⊗ Black Death, COVID,…
This week → Automating Society Report 2020 ⊗ Notes on Participatory Urban (Re)Wilding ⊗ Screw the Mars hype. Here’s why we should move to Venus. ⊗ The intriguing…
This week → Teaching science fiction while living it in Lebanon ⊗ Experiments in feral futuring ⊗ The DOOM! report ⊗ Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking. Here’s…
This week → Race to the Future? Reimagining the default settings of technology & society ⊗ Data as property? ⊗ The self-driving car Is a red herring ⊗…
This week → Disassembly required ⊗ Parametric Press’ climate issue ⊗ Is this real life? ⊗ AOC’s Among Us Twitch stream is the future of politics ⊗ Cohesion…
This week → Kim Stanley Robinson on inventing plausible utopias ⊗ Ethnographies from the Future: What can ethnographers learn from science fiction and speculative design? ⊗ Using government…
This week → Magic and the machine ⊗ Jaron Lanier in conversation with Tim Maughan ⊗ The deep Anthropocene ⊗ Community-led futures is a radical act ⊗ The…
This week → Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as alien to my culture as capitalism” ⊗ Don’t blame social media. Blame capitalism. ⊗ The green taming of…
This week → The gamification of games ⊗ Scream if you want to go faster! Why government technology needs (much) better governance ⊗ Degrowth and MMT: A thought…
This week → SOLARPUNK – Life in the future beyond the rusted chrome of yestermorrow ⊗ The environment is not a system ⊗ Stones that calculate ⊗ How…
This week → Beginning with the End ⊗ Lawful neutral ⊗ The right and wrong of cities’ current moment ⊗ Exit to community A year ago → The…
This week → The digital future of tabletop games ⊗ Sinofuturism as inverse orientalism: China’s future and the denial of coevalness ⊗ Remote work is killing the hidden…
This week → The cloud and the countryside ⊗ Pace layering: how complex systems learn and keep learning ⊗ The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design…
This week → Home body ⊗ Squad wealth ⊗ How we hypothetically tamed COVID-19 and zoonotic diseases ⊗ The uncanniness of algorithmic style A year ago → Faced…
This week → How not to know ourselves ⊗ Introduction to Assemblage Space ⊗ Rise of the Renaissance Creator and the Next Media Model ⊗ How the Dutch…
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…