Past issues of the weekly newsletter

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No.280 — Sep 24, 2023

Liberty Machines and Dark Tech ⊗ Tomorrow’s Democracy Is Open Source ⊗ The Living Things that Feast on Plastic

No.279 — Sep 17, 2023

Simulating History with ChatGPT ⊗ We Should All Be Luddites Now ⊗ Taking Business Personally

No.278 — Sep 10, 2023

Emergencies, Frameshifts and What They Tell Us About Our Place in the World ⊗ What Was Barbara McClintock’s “Mysticism”? ⊗ Finding Hope in the Dark Power of Fungus

No.277 — Sep 03, 2023

Why Public Intellectuals Promote an Overly Simplistic Future ⊗ How to Prepare for a GenAI Future You Can’t Predict ⊗ Empire of Dust: What the Tiniest Specks Reveal About the World

No.276 — Aug 27, 2023

The Future Thinker’s Dilemma ⊗ Hollywood’s Future Belongs to People—Not Machines ⊗ Discovering a Green Marx

No.275 — Aug 20, 2023

Building Proofs of Possibilities for a Civic Economy and Society ⊗ Naturalizing Foresight ⊗ The ChatGPT Revolution Is Another Tech Fantasy

No.274 — Aug 13, 2023

Utopia, Not Futurism: Why Doing the Impossible Is the Most Rational Thing We Can Do ⊗ We Can’t Afford to Be Climate Doomers ⊗ The Planet’s Economist

No.273 — Jul 16, 2023

Personal Machines and Portable Worlds ⊗ The 1970s Librarians Who Revolutionised the Challenge of Search ⊗ Post-Anthropocene Humanism

No.272 — Jul 09, 2023

To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower? ⊗ The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence ⊗ What “Rewilding” Means—and What’s Missing From This New Movement