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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.

Metaphors make the world. Made with Midjourney.

Metaphors make the world ⊗ The OpenAI endgame ⊗ Apple Vision Pro urban encounter

Software is beating the world ⊗ Visions for Vision Pro ⊗ The philosophy of co-becoming

Software is beating the world ⊗ Visions for Vision Pro ⊗ The philosophy of co-becoming

Japan, Fukushima City, Forest for Birds (Kotori no Mori).

Feral Minds ⊗ General Purpose AI and Harm ⊗ Understanding 5 Key Phrases

Four characters representing distinct genres of futurist rhetoric.

What we talk about when we talk about The Future ⊗ Polyfuturism ⊗ The downward spiral of technology

An Alternate History of Human Potential ⊗ The Tyranny of the Algorithm ⊗ The Coming Storm

An Alternate History of Human Potential ⊗ The Tyranny of the Algorithm ⊗ The Coming Storm

To own the future, read Shakespeare ⊗ It’s time to dismantle the technopoly ⊗ Accelerationist possibilities

To own the future, read Shakespeare ⊗ It’s time to dismantle the technopoly ⊗ Accelerationist possibilities

The interstitium but not the interstitium. Made with Midjourney.

Invisible Landscapes ⊗ Freeing Ourselves From the Clutches of Big Tech ⊗ Deep in the Wilderness

Francisco de Burgoa Library in Oaxaca, Mexico? By Rafael M. on Unsplash.

AI and Trust ⊗ This Is Your Brain on Books ⊗ Should Synthetic Biology Be the Next Decade’s Big Bet to Tackle Climate Change?

Gray and blue shoreline, Vik, Iceland. By Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash.

Positive climate tipping points ⊗ The battle for AI’s future ⊗ The ‘Georgists’ are out there

Chemin de l’Île-Grandbois, Saint-Casimir, by Mériol Lehmann.

The dangers of our net zero obsession ⊗ The origins of AI’s ideological divide ⊗ Don’t call me an “urbanist”

‘Is your soul missing too?’ Shanghai, China, by Katherine Gu on Unsplash.

Rapid urbanisation and paranormal anxieties in China ⊗ The dragonfly journey ⊗ Sorry we created the Torment Nexus

Person in a space suit and helmet looking out at the moon Europa. Vintage science fiction illustration. With Midjourney.

Space Is Dead ⊗ Work, Life, and Perennials ⊗ Sculpting Consciousness