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This Bodily Caretaking, Along With the Tools Used for It
October 31, 2016
*** Real Future Fair on November 15 in Oakland. What other event would bring together Zardulu, Sammus, Mitch Kapor, and Malkia Cyril? Get you some...
The Chain Becomes More like a Swarm
October 28, 2016
This is the new weekly rhythm of this newsletter: Sunday nightish, Wednesday, Friday morning. How's it feel? For me, I love the way making 5it tunes my brain...
While DharmaNet Linked Up Hundreds of Buddhist BBSs
October 26, 2016
I know I keep promising to distribute all the responses to the what-happened-in-technology-over-the-last-2-years prompt. It's just taking a little time to...
Surprise They Are Only Seemingly Innocent
October 24, 2016
Yesssss! It's Real Future Fair time. Last year, we had the most interesting technology conference I've ever seen, and this year, it should be just as good....
The Big Distributed Salon on Infrastructure and Land
October 20, 2016
Today, my first feature in my life as a writer again came out. It's about what I learned spending a week walking around and flying over (!) the border wall....
Surprising Translators and Alchemists in Miniature
October 17, 2016
First, we have our first Real Future event at the brand-new and very awesome Kapor Center in Oakland on Tuesday night. It's free: Come! Second, I'm now...
From Fuld Hall to Olden Farm, Witnessed Enviously
October 3, 2016
1. One day, humans invented the concept of time travel, which is the jumping off point for James Gleick's new book new book on the literature, philosophy,...
Society Extrapolated from Then-Current Trends in Workplace Automation
July 11, 2016
In this edition: an obligatory but interesting Pokemon Go reference, a new book on cybernetics, the eBook plateau, human prehistory, and a trip to...
Blade Runner’s Sole Appearance of Eurostile Bold Extended
June 29, 2016
In this edition: IRL, homelessness, Blade Runner typography, the end of facts, the rise of data visualization, and an argument against loving experiences...
A Seminal Exhibition Titled 'The Responsive Eye'
May 31, 2016
1. What's happening to the old, glorious Eero Saarinen-designed Bell Labs building? "Meanwhile, the government already is wrestling with how to regulate and...
Forecasting Who Would Re-Offend
May 23, 2016
In today's edition: Queering tech, race and algorithms, Uber and the environment, Ursula Burns, the Manhattan that could not be built, and healthier old age....
Enthusiasts for Extraterrestrial Communication
April 21, 2016
In today's edition: Doubt, tuning neural networks, a literary history of word processing, Martian messaging, 15 billion transistors, and the current state of...
To Make Claims About Genetic Difference
April 11, 2016
In today's edition: in praise of maintenance, all the trees, Mumbai's housing, the Panthers and genetics, nutrition science, and the best damn story you may...
Bind the Citizens Together in Bricks and Mortar
April 7, 2016
In today's edition: the magnet in my finger, small AI, Beijing's urban plan, bringing down the highways, the history of seeds, and making your DIY brain...
Brilliant Negative Space
March 28, 2016
In today's edition: Afrofuturism, Mr. Robot, the hammer of choice, transient autism, fertility tracking, universal basic income, and predictive policing. ***...
Find Some Safe Space for Her Nascent Utopian Community
March 10, 2016
In today's edition: Things I read while on paternity leave. 1. Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. Taken together, a prescient...
A Dense, Perfectly Flat Plasma: A Highly Efficient Mirror
February 4, 2016
In today's edition: the transhumanist candidate, Equipay, VHS tape and lasers, the mutable genome, the opera of the telephone, a disappearing coastline, and...
Our Bodies Sometimes Extract
January 29, 2016
In today's edition: heartbreak, the problem of the calorie, gorilla guerrillas, The New Sound of Music, what Coke doesn't want you to say, and animal...
What Are These Vibrations For?
January 27, 2016
In today's edition: plane brain, FOIAing Slack, the ocean worlds approach to exploration, Minsky mind, and the impending end of humans winning any game. Real...
An Architectural Breathing Apparatus
January 26, 2016
In today's edition: content memories, speculative art air, the history and future of laundry, Minsky, inequality, and Trumps' tweeps. 1. The #content of...
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