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 ⊗ AI in 2019: A year in review A year ago → Blistering attack on the ‘data industrial complex’. The plan was to wait for No.100 until […]
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 a you problem / An AI pioneer wants his algorithms to understand the ‘why’ / This is why California will keep burning A year ago: Exploring the […]
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 year ago: The Automation Charade. Shorter issue this week. I ended up ignoring a bunch of articles I thought promising before actually reading them, and at the […]
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 second brain or go offline, you will BECOME the second brain / Vox Media and New York magazine isn’t a marriage, but it’s a deal that makes […]
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 of the era of climate barbarism” / A Smart Commons A year ago: We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong. Last week I launched memberships and the intro […]
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, I’ve been pondering a paying version of Sentiers, twisting and turning (and twisting and turning, and tw…) what it should entail, at what price, and when to […]
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 projects, and gaps here and there for 1-2 day engagements. Have a look on the homepage for some details on what I do and hit reply to […]
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’? / The planet needs a new internet / The internet has made dupes—and cynics—of us all A year ago: Skim reading is the new normal, a profound effect […]
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 will have some videos up in the next few weeks and I can share some here. There’s a slight overlap of interests and adjacent networks behind each […]
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 very much appreciated, whether I’ve read the article or not. This week: Progress and its discontents / The arrogance of the Anthropocene / Inside DeepMind’s mission to […]
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 / Forget synthetic meat, lab grown dairy is here / On social Acceleration A year ago: Twitter is not your friend. The Sarah Jeong saga shows us why. […]
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 client report, the week was pretty packed so I’ve re-used some blogging bits here, if you were following along, you might experience some déjà read. This week: […]
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 a look if you’re curious. I also wrote an article about how I see that practice. There’s also a new version of the patron support page, if […]
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 is eating away. He ponders how this loss affects our democracies and then makes (as others have done) the parallel with the environment; something that was so […]
I attended a small event this week. When entering the room they asked for everyone to leave their phone in a box, to be claimed on exit. “So that people would talk more.” At the end of the event, the embargo being lifted and everyone still being encouraged to talk, most people lined-up to get […]
This Week: Not Relevant for Fantasy Purposes. Human Civilization (Probably not) Coming to an End Within 30 Years. The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less. Data Training Program at the NYT. A year ago: Tackling the Ethical Challenges of Slippery Technology. Not Relevant for Fantasy Purposes More of a thought experiment than […]
This week: You can handle the post-truth. As Systems Collapse, People Rise. Speculative Design and Glass Slaughterhouses. Design Is Not an Intellectual Exercise. How Politicians and Scholars Turned Against Big Tech. A year ago: The need for readers. You can handle the post-truth: a pocket guide to the surreal internet Eminently quotable piece by Aaron […]
Summer is (supposedly) here which means vacations and traveling. If you’re a reader and end up swinging by Montréal, email me, lets grab coffee. This Week: It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning. Nnedi Okorafor. The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet. AGI Has Been Delayed. New Zealand’s Next Liberal Milestone. Data is […]
This week: Sociological and psychological strorytelling. Genevieve Bell talks anthropology. Bullet time. Why I (Still) Love Tech. Artificial intelligence with an Indigenous worldview. A year ago: Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance. The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones Although it’s technically about GoT, this piece by […]
Probably of interest to very few readers but just in case; I managed to wrangle up a pass so this week I’ll be attending C2 Montréal, hit me up if you’re around. This week: Tiny Neural Networks. Bezos Space Habitats. The Cement Ban. The art of noticing. Jellyfish supper. A year ago: The Key to […]
This week: Born-Digital Publications. Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian. Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. IPBES. Attenborough. Industry, rules, and AI. A year ago: AI researchers allege that machine learning is alchemy. Born-Digital Publications When the “about us” pages are super interesting, you know you’re in for something excellent to explore. Cita Press […]
This week: Digital future for newspapers. Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation. Nothing Fails Like Success. Extinction Rebellion and a Remarkable Political Moment for Climate Change. Venice and Fairbnb. A year ago: The economics of artificial intelligence. Want to see what one digital future for newspapers looks like? Look at The Guardian, which isn’t losing money anymore […]
This week: Thinking of smart cities the wrong way. Built to shill. Extended Intelligence. Dare to declare capitalism dead. An ‘unbelievable’ facial recognition machine. A beautiful book house. Chestnut agroforestry. A year ago: What Will Our Society Look Like When Artificial Intelligence Is Everywhere? You’re thinking about smart cities in completely the wrong way Francesca […]
This week: A Vision for a Shared Digital Europe. New Ways of Seeing. Climate Rebellion. It’s wrongheaded to protect nature with human-style rights. Cities Are Rising in Influence and Power on the Global Stage. A year ago: City Everywhere by Liam Young (Lecture Performance). A Vision for a Shared Digital Europe This new vision for […]
This week: AI changing lives. D&D is cool. Surveillance. A studio for ideas. Undersea cables. Right to repair. GoT. A year ago: Cities need a modern-day Hanseatic League to get bargaining power on self-driving cars. How will AI change your life? Really really good interview with the AI Now Institute founders Kate Crawford and Meredith […]