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Partial archive of back issues of the weekly newsletter. After a couple of platform changes I’m slowly adding older issues.

It didn’t have to be this way ⊗ The future is not a solution ⊗ the Intersection

It didn’t have to be this way ⊗ The future is not a solution ⊗ the Intersection

A world ordered only by search ⊗ Remystifying supply chains ⊗ The intelligence of bodies

A world ordered only by search ⊗ Remystifying supply chains ⊗ The intelligence of bodies

Making a living, the history of what we call work ⊗ How DeepMind is reinventing the robot ⊗ Building new weblike things

Making a living, the history of what we call work ⊗ How DeepMind is reinventing the robot ⊗ Building new weblike things

Can climate fiction deliver climate justice? ⊗ Why community organisations need community tech ⊗ The digital jungle

Can climate fiction deliver climate justice? ⊗ Why community organisations need community tech ⊗ The digital jungle

After the Big Now ⊗ The word for web is forest ⊗ Place, commerce, boundaries, and the commons

After the Big Now ⊗ The word for web is forest ⊗ Place, commerce, boundaries, and the commons

The form and function of science-fiction ⊗ Brian Eno’s design principles for streets ⊗ Machine learning’s crumbling foundations

The form and function of science-fiction ⊗ Brian Eno’s design principles for streets ⊗ Machine learning’s crumbling foundations

Can the World Computer save the world? ⊗ Imagining the future is just another form of memory ⊗ Notes are conversations across time

Can the World Computer save the world? ⊗ Imagining the future is just another form of memory ⊗ Notes are conversations across time

Technological lessons from the pandemic ⊗ Revenge of the real ⊗ Solarpunk is not about pretty aesthetics. It’s about the end of Capitalism

Technological lessons from the pandemic ⊗ Revenge of the real ⊗ Solarpunk is not about pretty aesthetics. It’s about the end of Capitalism

Open Climate now! ⊗ Thresholds of artificiality ⊗ Collapse, renewal and the rope of history

Open Climate now! ⊗ Thresholds of artificiality ⊗ Collapse, renewal and the rope of history

Care at scale ⊗ How change happens ⊗ Your sci-fi future

Care at scale ⊗ How change happens ⊗ Your sci-fi future

A prehistory of DAOs ⊗ Automated discovery of new areas of thought ⊗ The computer scientist training AI to think with analogies

A prehistory of DAOs ⊗ Automated discovery of new areas of thought ⊗ The computer scientist training AI to think with analogies

Dancing with systems ⊗ Unboxing the toolkit ⊗ Cartographic evidence of invisible cities

Dancing with systems ⊗ Unboxing the toolkit ⊗ Cartographic evidence of invisible cities