A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.363 — Doctored Doom ⊗ Could Should Might Don’t ⊗ AI, 30 times more energy by 2035 ⊗ Ancient cooling techniques ⊗ Death of a Fantastic Machine
No.362 — Future Art Ecosystems ⊗ AI scraping bots are breaking open libraries ⊗ Building a sustainable forest ecosystem ⊗ Why people are turning to bibliotherapy
No. 361 — The future needs better storytellers ⊗ TikTokers pretending to be AI creations ⊗ Google battling ‘fox infestation’ ⊗ Humpback whales blowing bubble rings at people
No.360 — China’s hundred lens war ⊗ The Magic of Code ⊗ Future of Air ⊗ Ukraine’s fiberoptic drone war ⊗ The magnetic forces shaping cities
I did some vibe coding yesterday, as one does these days, and had some thoughts. It was going to be a post on LinkedIn, but ended up a short article, so I'm also posting it here.
No.359 — The who cares era ⊗ Possible Futures Issue 1 ⊗ Global electricity review ⊗ Fuel-cell aircraft ⊗ Gen Alpha slang
No.358 — Latent futures ⊗ OpenAI unites with Jony Ive ⊗ Shanghai lets riders design their own routes ⊗ Giant Sequoias taking root in Detroit
No.357 — Why futurists start with a backward glance ⊗ AI can decipher dolphin communication ⊗ Impacts of congestion pricing in New York ⊗ Bioprinting without breaking the skin
No.356 — Do data centres dream of electric pasture? ⊗ Insights from the global south ⊗ Wrestling with originality ⊗ Wooden wind turbine towers ⊗ The phony physics of Star Wars
No.355 — BBC, foresight, an AI-mediated future ⊗ Lyonne, Marling, Lanier, AI ⊗ Sponge produces water from thin air ⊗ Extraordinary forgotten books
No.354 — Design fiction worksheet ⊗ 8 principles for the future of AI ⊗ Rare Earth elements aren’t actually all that rare ⊗ Graphene biosensor tattoos
No.353 — On trees as infrastructure ⊗ Astrofuturism ⊗ China’s AI boom ⊗ The Bluetooth lady
No.352 — Every 80 years, reinvention ⊗ Beyond the Torment Nexus ⊗ How AI actually “thinks” ⊗ What if... we experienced the future?
