A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.401 — Why are London’s top galleries full of laptops? ⊗ This is how we get moral AI companies ⊗ Space to Breathe ⊗ The zero-days are numbered ⊗ A complete guide to the AMOC ⊗ The GDT Nature Photographer of the Year
No.400 — Extrapolated futures archive ⊗ The dissonance is expanding ⊗ South Korea to spur a renewables revolution ⊗ Eye contact with a humpback whale
No.399 — The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point ⊗ Frugal AI ⊗ Design futures in infrastructure ⊗ The AI revolution in math has arrived ⊗ First Indigenous Group to ban data centers from its land ⊗ A macro array of colorful slime molds
No.398 — A scathing LLM YouTuber ⊗ “We ran a business LARP” ⊗ Making Sense of Slow AI ⊗ Solar power and chili peppers ⊗ Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan
No.397 — Ending the AI arms race ⊗ Insight and future-fit decisions ⊗ Better AI creative collaborators ⊗ Progressive Paris ⊗ The asteroid ryugu and the building blocks of life
No.396 — Tough week for Zuck ⊗ Learning in Motion ⊗ The people pushing back on AI ⊗ A wind-powered tumbleweed ⊗ Books, plants and playgrounds
No.395 — Possibilities literacy ⊗ Proof ⊗ Energy falling below $100 ⊗ Roots and the meaning of life
No.394 — Jobs below the AI ⊗ Seneca Falls Convention · 2048 ⊗ Manufacturing + AI ⊗ The psychological distance to climate disaster ⊗ GPS jamming
No.393 — The future belongs to the creative generalists ⊗ Media’s bad idea with Kalshi ⊗ Reimagining realism ⊗ Labor market impacts of AI ⊗ World record for fusion plasma ⊗ Apocalypse no
No.392 — We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate ⊗ Our emerging planetary nervous system ⊗ A handbook for strategic foresight ⊗ A Cookie for Dario? ⊗ This city turned its rooftops into a climate shield ⊗ “Viking” was a job description
No.391 — Perhaps AI is the paperclip ⊗ The imagination curriculum ⊗ On algorithmic wage discrimination ⊗ Romania and the link between economic growth and high emissions ⊗ Origami to imagine emergency shelters
No. 390 — A surveillance dragnet (almost) ⊗ Open-Source foresight on global transformation ⊗ The thinking game ⊗ China’s CO2 emissions “flat or falling” for 21 months ⊗ Japan’s most influential architect’s working studio
No.389 — The space trash apocalypse ⊗ Jeff Bezos, moral cretin ⊗ The futures cone reimagined ⊗ The Authoritarian Stack ⊗ Local energy networks saving lives ⊗ Tangible media
