Previous Issues, page 2
No.210 — Mar 13, 2022
World Building ⊗ Imagine Other Futures ⊗ Our Shared Storm
Astonishingly hyperconnected ⊗ Kogonada, Nick Foster, and Liam Young ⊗ Can artificial faeces revive the ocean ecosystem? ⊗ More laptops and phones should aspire for better battery life, not thinness Keep reading →
No.209 — Mar 06, 2022
Disambiguation ⊗ Long Distance Thinking ⊗ Visualising and Communicating Complexity
Cybernetics, AI, feedback loops, and data ⊗ A Copernicus moment ⊗ Excess emissions and nations most impacted ⊗ Modular homes with vertical farms Keep reading →
No.208 — Feb 27, 2022
AI & the Future of Civilization ⊗ Rethinking Labels: the Origins of Metalabel ⊗ Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs
Magic carpets ⊗ From cyberpunk to solarpunk ⊗ False futurism ⊗ Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest ⊗ Kenya to use solar panels to boost crops by ‘harvesting the sun twice’ Keep reading →
No.207 — Feb 20, 2022
How to Develop a Planetary Consciousness ⊗ Why You Can’t Rebuild Wikipedia with Crypto ⊗ Because Your Algorithm Says So
Okorafor, Palmer, and Gibson ⊗ DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion ⊗ Machine Learning Becomes a Mathematical Collaborator ⊗ Casino Cheating Expert Reviews Card Counting and Casino Scams From Movies Keep reading →
No.206 — Feb 13, 2022
The Metaverse Is a New Word for an Old Idea ⊗ Climate-Change-Driven Inflation ⊗ The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now
Class 1 / Class 2 problems ⊗ Who’s really being optimistic about tech ⊗ Behold! NASA captures groundbreaking images of Venus’ surface ⊗ Solarpunk Canon Keep reading →
No.205 — Feb 06, 2022
Back to the Victorian Future ⊗ Builder Brain ⊗ Artefacts From Hopeful Futures
Holding to account: On duties of care and resistance to Big Tech ⊗ The Oslo Futures Catalogue as a garden of ideas ⊗ Extreme Heat in the Oceans Is Out of Control ⊗ China unveils five-year plan for space exploration Keep reading →
No.204 — Jan 30, 2022
Morals in the Machine ⊗ Tree Thinking ⊗ What Does It Mean to Design Urban Technology?
Artificial animals ⊗ Science Fiction and Philosophy ⊗ Tree Root System Drawings ⊗ Gallery of Physical Visualizations and Related Artifacts Keep reading →
No.203 — Jan 23, 2022
Seeing without Looking ⊗ A Map in Search of Territory ⊗ Spoiling the Last Frontier
AAs, co-ops, and DAOs ⊗ A Brief Compendium of Modernist Homes for Movie Villains with Flawless Taste ⊗ DIY Glaciers ⊗ Architecture in Music by Charles Brooks Keep reading →
No.202 — Jan 16, 2022
Oh, 2022! ⊗ Change of Seasons ⊗ Tropical Futurism
The planet-killing asteroid is always political ⊗ Filtered for deep time and stories from space ⊗ Feminist Tech Policy ⊗ The happiest number I’ve heard in ages ⊗ Young Chinese Show a Growing Appetite for Plant-Based Diets Keep reading →
No.201 — Jan 09, 2022
Your Attention Is Not a Resource ⊗ Routine Maintenance ⊗ How Bad Are Plastics, Really?
Tech questions for 2022 ⊗ the design of time ⊗ Inside a hollow library book, a secret library ⊗ The Terraforming 2022: Reading List ⊗ Unearthing the truth Keep reading →