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This week → Design better systems in a world overwhelmed by complexity ⊗ An ecological civilization ⊗ Against performative positivity ⊗ Attention stewardship ⊗ Reimagining the research lab…
This week → Touching the future ⊗ Surveyors, neighbors, and stoichiometrists ⊗ The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines ⊗ Can a park…
This week → Nurturing architecture ⊗ Protopia futures ⊗ The internet rewired our brains ⊗ A brief history of consumer culture ⊗ We need a new work culture…
This week → Worldbuilding forever: Bold ideas for our collective futures ⊗ Dreaming big ⊗ The future encyclopedia of Luddism ⊗ How predicting the future became a literary…
This week → Future Schlock ⊗ Solarpunk is a Tumblr vibe. It’s also a practical movement. ⊗ Earth at a cute angle ⊗ Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab…
This week → Other species are essential workers, whose economies enfold our own ⊗ Capitalism is over, if you want it. ⊗ After climate alarmism ⊗ Find something…
This week → Camera obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design ⊗ Make way for the ‘one-minute city’ ⊗ Neofeudalism and the digital manor ⊗ Playing chess is…
This week → Facebook is a doomsday machine ⊗ Pillar or pawn ⊗ Experimenting with GPT-3 felt like witnessing a technological revolution ⊗ What’s breakfast cereal got to…
This week → Defuturing the image of the future ⊗ An interview with McKenzie Wark ⊗ The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret ⊗ Countdown clocks,…
This week → The modern world has finally become too complex for any of us to understand ⊗ The world is a factory farm ⊗ Hyperland, Intermedia, and…
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…