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Latest No.266 — May 28, 2023
How Design Is Governance ⊗ Where Ideas Come From ⊗ “This Studio Is a Response to Hopelessness About the Future”
Foresight: The mental talent that shaped the world ⊗ “In a world with superintelligence” ⊗ Trends have lost all meaning ⊗ Brain and spine implants allow paralyzed man to walk naturally again Keep reading →
No.265 — May 21, 2023
Why an Easier Life Is Not Necessarily Happier ⊗ What A.I. Risks We Should Really Be Worried About ⊗ Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles
What happens when the computers disappear? ⊗ What’s the point of reading writing by humans? ⊗ Cory Doctorow on the Future Now podcast ⊗ Naive Yearly Keep reading →
No.264 — May 14, 2023
Will AI Become the New McKinsey? ⊗ Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution ⊗ Degrowth in Japan
AI is reimagining the way we play role-playing games ⊗ The Biophilia Paradox ⊗ What I want from the internet ⊗ None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use Keep reading →
No.263 — May 07, 2023
Playing the Future ⊗ Deskilling on the Job ⊗ How We Ended up in the Era of ‘Quantitative Aesthetics’
What Oslo’s Future Library means for writers and the written word ⊗ The Internet isn’t meant to be so small ⊗ Adventures in science fiction prototyping ⊗ The Galactic Menagerie, Wes Anderson’s Star Wars Keep reading →
No.262 — Apr 30, 2023
Radical Design for a World in Crisis ⊗ The Catalogers ⊗ Collective Mental Time Travel Can Influence the Future
The Andy Warhol copyright case that could transform generative AI ⊗ Design lessons from Space Invaders ⊗ All flourishing is mutual ⊗ Tiny Illustrated Sci-fi Stories Keep reading →
No.261 — Apr 23, 2023
Through the Looking Glass ⊗ Intelligence Superabundance ⊗ The One About AI
Holographic media ⊗ Why Alcova moves around Milan ⊗ Chess is booming among teens ⊗ Respect for the Carthusian monks ⊗ Stability AI launches first suite of language models Keep reading →
No.260 — Apr 16, 2023
Resisting Deterministic Thinking ⊗ The Green Techno-Dream Is so Vastly Destructive ⊗ How to Rest Well
Smoke screen ⊗ For Sarah Bakewell, nothing human is Alien ⊗ Chart the threat of killer fungi ⊗ A book from the Steve Jobs archive Keep reading →
No.259 — Apr 09, 2023
What Is to Be Done? ⊗ The Future of Strategic Decision-Making ⊗ Just How Big Could the Brittleness Bubble Get?
The power of indulging your weird, offbeat obsessions ⊗ On creative work as a space for new possibilities ⊗ On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking Keep reading →
No.258 — Apr 02, 2023
To Shape the Future, We Must First Understand the Present ⊗ Society’s Technical Debt and Software’s Gutenberg Moment ⊗ We Don’t Need New Tech to Fight Climate Change
Red Teaming improved GPT-4. Violet Teaming goes even further ⊗ AI and the American smile Keep reading →
No.257 — Mar 26, 2023
Hard to Believe ⊗ The Metaverse Is Not a Place ⊗ The Case for Slowing Down AI
On generative AI, phantom citations, and social calluses ⊗ How tech companies reshape the economy ⊗ Brainstorm questions not ideas ⊗ Building a better future through imagination Keep reading →