Humans are better than we think ⊗ The bots are just the closers
No.423 — New alliance open to like-minded countries ⊗ Shaping glocal tomorrows ⊗ The Three-Layer Cake ⊗ Drones are reseeding Canada ⊗ A macro journey underwater
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30 of 50Six Gutenberg revolutions in a row ⊗ Deskilling the body
No.422 — Bodies for AI ⊗ A surprising synthesis of well-known ideas ⊗ What We Choose Next ⊗ AI optimists in developing nations ⊗ The mangrove as a wall ⊗ How hunting owls use sound
High Modernism made our world ⊗ Tech hype is cannibalizing the future
No.421 — Designing amiable web spaces ⊗ Immersive futures ⊗ On work and AI in 2027 ⊗ Public libraries “adding bedrooms” ⊗ Bleached corals thrive within days
Reason is more than a tool ⊗ The opposite of the apocalypse is a neighborhood
No.420 — Fabien Girardin on curiosity as resilience ⊗ Feeling future shock? ⊗ Agent activities found on Wikimedia projects ⊗ Fifty billion seedlings ⊗ A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries
Artificial symbiotic intelligence ⊗ The politics of the planetary
No.419 — Commodified Intelligence ⊗ Design fiction mood board ⊗ 2026 in LLMs (so far) ⊗ Who shapes the territory? ⊗ Boundary-breaking installations
Artificial symbiotic intelligence ⊗ The politics of the planetary
No.419 — Commodified Intelligence ⊗ Design fiction mood board ⊗ 2026 in LLMs (so far) ⊗ Who shapes the territory? ⊗ Boundary-breaking installations
In defence of the unfinished future ⊗ Penchants of the polymaths
No.418 — Beyond the Gaia-Borg dichotomy ⊗ Anthropic has set up a bio research lab ⊗ Germany is building an ark for US climate data ⊗ Human brain is two separate organs
Towards kindred futures ⊗ What more-than-human really means
No.417 — The map fiction missed ⊗ Cognitive integrity ⊗ The massive layer of life just beneath our feet ⊗ NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The map fiction missed
Canada and the European Union are discussing an associate membership for Canada, a scenario I can’t recall seeing in science fiction or alternate history. Speculative maps of North America have usually split Canada into successor states or handed its pieces to…
Lifted AF ⊗ Cyborgs, centaurs and cyberpunks
No.416 — The importance of reading (and teaching) cyberpunk ⊗ Anticipatory literacy coaching ⊗ AI’s next ethical dilemma ⊗ Solar desert power ⊗ Are crows really our friends?
Lifted AF ⊗ Cyborgs, centaurs and cyberpunks
No.416 — The importance of reading (and teaching) cyberpunk ⊗ Anticipatory literacy coaching ⊗ AI’s next ethical dilemma ⊗ Solar desert power ⊗ Are crows really our friends?
The future is not tech-forward ⊗ Models don’t go rogue
No.415 — Integrated Strategic Forecasting ⊗ Fable solves the Cyphral Distich ⊗ Is the Arctic China’s new highway to Europe? ⊗ Black Hole Stars
The future is not tech-forward ⊗ Models don’t go rogue
No.415 — Integrated Strategic Forecasting ⊗ Fable solves the Cyphral Distich ⊗ Is the Arctic China’s new highway to Europe? ⊗ Black Hole Stars
Latent space as a new medium ⊗ The technology killing oil demand
No.414 — Permacrisis readiness ⊗ Marketplace to rent human faces ⊗ “Horrendous” cracks in homes after heat waves ⊗ The naturalist’s library
Latent space as a new medium ⊗ The technology killing oil demand
No.414 — Permacrisis readiness ⊗ Marketplace to rent human faces ⊗ “Horrendous” cracks in homes after heat waves ⊗ The naturalist’s library
Neuroplasticity as a praxis ⊗ The Ambiguist
No.413 — The science of foresight ⊗ Librarians are hosting viral “Avoiding AI” workshops ⊗ What if we never built another new building? ⊗ Seoul’s outdoor library
Neuroplasticity as a praxis ⊗ The Ambiguist
No.413 — The science of foresight ⊗ Librarians are hosting viral “Avoiding AI” workshops ⊗ What if we never built another new building? ⊗ Seoul’s outdoor library
The looting of science fiction ⊗ We’ve been here before
No.412 — Techno-negativity ⊗ Billionaire derangement ⊗ The march to Stop the AI Race ⊗ Losing the ability to discover ⊗ How to talk about “AI” ⊗ Underwater kites
Ordinary engineers, not heroic inventors ⊗ Umyazu
No.411 — Stacking spaces ⊗ Why Leonardo was a saboteur ⊗ Futuring through discomfort ⊗ Imagining a new digital commons for creative AI ⊗ Project Circle ⊗ Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna
Becoming our unconscious ⊗ Energy and the matter problem
No.410 — Solar abundance ⊗ Matter Battle ⊗ A Glossary for Other Worlds ⊗ Scarcity is driving AI innovation ⊗ Chock full of incredible animals ⊗ Big Think’s 5 favorite nonfiction books
The no-human future ⊗ The cult of optimisation
No.409 — The golden age of Bond villains ⊗ Predictions Volume 1 ⊗ GLM-5.2 is a step change ⊗ Earth’s underground fungus network ⊗ Huge collections of Leonardo’s codexes
(One) good AI is here ⊗ Taste as interface behaviour
No.408 — Futures studies as a mosaic 2 ⊗ Digital Colonialism ⊗ How the Squamish built Senakw ⊗ Extreme dynamic symmetry
We may be entering a second Axial Age ⊗ Radical abundance
No.407 — The frame vs. the framer ⊗ The formula won ⊗ Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own ⊗ World Without End ⊗ It hunts using its shadow
On metanarratives ⊗ Do not resign from life
No.406 — Sensing the third horizon ⊗ The public should own half of the big AI companies ⊗ Cities that lost the economic development plot ⊗ The illuminated windows of NYC
Holding the human line as cyborgs ⊗ A framework for action
No.405 — Big Tech’s anti-labor playbook ⊗ Evidence for the future? ⊗ Māori data sovereignty ⊗ Superhot rock holds the energy of the future ⊗ Britain tries a new solution: beavers
The skeleton library ⊗ Could humans become “Sun-eaters”?
No.404 — Le mal du siècle, bis ⊗ AI Resist List and the Luddite Lab ⊗ Microcosm Industries ⊗ Narrative inheritance ⊗ Books in an age of AI ⊗ The near-term future of climate adaptation ⊗ The Neanderthal dentist
Building a solidarity ecosystem for AI ⊗ Dawn of the electric world order
No.403 — Being harvested by the future ⊗ The impact of AI-generated text ⊗ Paris staged a huge stress test for extreme heat ⊗ Mesmerizing cat-5 super typhoon
Anti-dystopia ⊗ Our horizon of possibilities
No.402 — AI learns language from skewed sources ⊗ We can always do something about the future ⊗ The hidden Sungemite archipelago ⊗ Where Europe’s population is shrinking ⊗ Rogue One: The Andor Cut
Hopkins on the power of imagination ⊗ Feral thought experiments
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
Scenario planning for the “jobless future” ⊗ Software brains & statistical engines
No.400 — Extrapolated futures archive ⊗ The dissonance is expanding ⊗ South Korea to spur a renewables revolution ⊗ Eye contact with a humpback whale