Sentiers MediaThis week → The Metaverse: what it is, where to find it, who will build it, and Fortnite ⊗ The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance…
This week → Does minimalism really make us any happier? ⊗ Logistics Landscapes ⊗ How scific imagined the 2020s ⊗ The world on fire won’t shock us for…
This week → How William Gibson keeps his science fiction real ⊗ A persistence of magical thinking? ⊗ Mediating consent ⊗ What the Internet can learn from the…
This week → An introduction to metamodernism: the cultural philosophy of the digital age ⊗ Jeff Bezos’s vision of the future Is basically Blade Runner ⊗ The dark…
This week → A Better Internet Is Waiting for Us ⊗ Epic’s moves towards the Metaverse ⊗ The Myth of the Return of the City State ⊗ If…
This week → General Ludd in the Long Seventies ⊗ Better than ethics ⊗ Taiwan is making democracy work again. It’s time we paid attention ⊗ Oil is…
This week → Cyberpunk is dead ⊗ On serendipity ⊗ The return of the night train ⊗ Imagine a future of distributed cooperatives ⊗ What is a weird…
This week → The Captured City ⊗ Against Economics ⊗ Reimagining Privacy Online Through A Spectrum of Intimacy ⊗ The internet we lost A year ago → We…
This week → Donna Haraway on truth, technology, and resisting extinction ⊗ Utopian overreach ⊗ The cult of the imperfect ⊗ The troubling age of algorithmic entertainment ⊗…
This week → Just enough Internet ⊗ Techno-fix futures will only accelerate climate chaos ⊗ How we misremember the Internet’s origins ⊗ Douglas Coupland: How a 24/7 world…
This week → A World We Built to Burn ⊗ Bundling and Unbundling ⊗ Neural nets are just people all the way down ⊗ Twitch CEO Emmett Shear…
This week → Counter Mapping ⊗ Is the Anthropocene an epoch after all? ⊗ The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have the Internet of surveillance and control…
This week: This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It’s time we all listened / The myth of inevitable technological progress / Addicted to screens? That’s really…
This week: Minimal maintenance / The future of another timeline: how time-travel stories explain our era. / To pay attention, the brain uses filters, not a spotlight A…
This week: Comrades in Deep Future / Growth must end. Economist don’t seem to realise that / WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism / If you do not build a…
This week: Facing the Great Reckoning head-on / Tech-Master Disaster / To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution / “We are seeing the beginnings…
I’ve been wondering what to do for issue No.100 and I missed this last week: it’s been two years of Sentiers!! 🥳🎉😅 For the last too many weeks,…
With everyone back from vacation, a couple of client projects have reactivated, which means in coming months I have only 2 other open slots for larger or recurring…
This week: The glimmer of a climate new world order / Always in, wireless headphones are augmented reality devices / Do you live in a ‘soft city’? /…
This past week was Mutek’s Forum IMG in Montréal, where I had the pleasure of seeing excellent talks and chatting with friends old and new. Hopefully the organizers…
Over the last few weeks a couple of people sent me links with notes like “sorry if you’ve seen this already.” Never apologize! Always send the links! It’s…
This week: This land is the only land there is / China has started a grand experiment in AI education / Netflix is not a tech company /…
This week I was guest editor at Kottke dot org, here’s the wrap up post with my favourite finds. Between that and the last few details of a…
Welcome back! A few admin notes to begin; I redid the Sentiers homepage with some new copy and more emphasis on the idea of Thought Partnership, please have…
The New Wilderness Sharp take here by the multitalented Maciej Cegłowski, introducing the idea of “ambient privacy,” the society level intersection of everyone’s individual privacy which surveillance capitalism…