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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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This week: Public libraires. Could We Blow Up the Internet? The Third Phase of Clean Energy. AI music. Zuck and Bengio. A year ago: Half Life: The Decay of Knowledge and What to Do About It In Praise of Public Libraries It’s a bit weird how many people (including some politicians) seem to think public […]

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Lots of replies to last week’s issue (thanks!) but also an abnormally low open rate which makes me think that more than a few of you didn’t get No.72, do have a look in your various automated “M@rketing and sp@m” folders to catchup. This Week: Getting cities our of cars. Copyright horror. Intelligences. Bogost. Malaise […]

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It’s not a new interest, but after recently including the piece On Foresight in Organisations by Stuart Candy in Sentiers at Work No.4, I’ve been on a bit of a foresight / forecast / futurism trajectory, thus lots of mentions of “future” in this week’s selection. Btw, feel free to point me to practitioners of […]

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This week: AI in art and science. Design Nonfiction. A tech supra-state? Greta. Hudson Yards. The tool to travel through layers. A year ago: How To Become A Centaur. The AI-Art Gold Rush Is Here Excellent read by Ian Bogost on a quite fascinating intersection of art, history, AI, blockchain, and money. It also connects […]

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This week: Reading and Wandering. Economics After Neoliberalism. Economism, technocracy, and citizens. Magicverse. Aquaponics. A minister for the unborn. A year ago: Small b blogging. Rebecca Solnit on a Childhood of Reading and Wandering Great essay on libraries and forests, reading and wandering, and the connections between all. I felt like highlighting all the quotes […]

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This week: Metamodernism. Everything is connected. The Big Nine and AI. Bezos on Blue Origin’s mission. Deutungshoheit. A year ago: The Art of Laser Focus. You don’t decide what you are more focused on, you discover the direction and the alignment. Metamodern Values for a Listening Society Excellent long interview with Hanzi Freinacht. It’s a […]

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Naam on GND. Super-tall in NYC. Mirrorworld. Netflix expanding your interests. Insects. Peper Q&A with Harkaway. A year ago: Why Decentralization Matters. How to decarbonize America — and the world Ramez Naam expanding on his Twitter thread I linked to last week, with lots more detail. His central point is that electricity generation and transport […]

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Back in the days of The Alpine Review, working on a photo spread layout with our designer, she mentioned aligning the eyes of a horse in one picture with the eyes of a sailor on the previous page. Élise said that even though most readers wouldn’t see the connection, she believed that they could sense […]

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Because I’ve been meaning to try it again and time was a bit short this week: a different format for this issue, no categories, just a series of my most interesting / note-worthy finds. A year ago: The House That Spied on Me. No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology Bruce Schneier with a methodical […]

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This week: A high five that can’t land. Model Metropolis. A flâneur approach to social media. Micromobility. Greta Thunberg. The Big Here. A year ago: Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs A high five that can’t land Charlie Loyd beautifully weaving together stories about a bridge in Oakland, the Shinkansen to Hokkaido, […]

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A very Warren Ellis issue this week. I couldn’t get his Normal and abyss gaze out of my head after reading the first couple of pieces below and I’m linking to him concerning book formats in Miscellany. Enjoy. A year ago: Ursula K. Le Guin passed and I linked, among other things, to her Rant […]

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Quick note that I completely redid the template for this newsletter, partially based on the Tinyletter styling. I’m trusting their code but do get back to me if you encounter display issues. Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong Excellent piece at Vox on reasons for and signs of intellectual humility in […]

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Welcome back and happy new year! Lots of stuff so lets get right to it. (Admin notes and announcements, if any, will now be found at the end.) The ‘Future Book’ Is Here, but It’s Not What We Expected Craig Mod looking at what “we” thought would be the future of the book and where […]

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I try to not do this too often but a quick reminder that you can support Sentiers by becoming a Patron. Pitching in over the next couple of weeks would be super appreciated and useful to round out this first quarter of “patronizing.” Also very useful and appreciated is if you can forward to a […]

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I would like to have more interactions with readers and amongst readers, get some form of collective intelligence going, something perhaps akin to a salon but virtual. Ideally without using a chat or messaging app. Interest? Ideas? Also, looking at early 2019, I’ve got some availability, hit reply if you want to work together! At […]

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In case you haven’t subscribed to Sentiers at Work but find it interesting, I added a holiday pricing for 3 months so you can try it out or gift it to someone. Check it out. The Digital Maginot Line Lots to think about in this piece by Renee DiResta making a parallel between the French […]

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The first issue of Sentiers at Work was sent to members on Friday morning, be sure to check your filters if you haven’t seen it yet. Lots of stuff this week, lets get to it! ⁓ We Are All Bewildered Machines “Bewilderment is the antidote to scientific reductionism.” The author, Nautilus’ features editor Kevin Berger, […]

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Packed, packed days this week, but good things happening. If you are subscribed to Sentiers at Work, the first real issue is coming in a few days. If not a member yet, have a look. And for everyone, as always, using the link at the upper right and sharing broadly is always very much appreciated. […]

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Over the last week, for a quick client research project, I skimmed through all 55 previous issues of Sentiers. a) I’m going to have to organize all the bits and pieces in something more useful than just text files. b) I used to have more section-like titles, depending on the week’s content, like in No.33 […]

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Thanks to everyone who’s signed up to be a Patron or to receive Sentiers at Work, it’s very much appreciated, as are the very very flattering comments I got from a number of subscribers following the launch. 🤗 — Last issue, the most clicked link was: Exploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir. Mariana […]

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