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Film Existed Primarily in Memory

January 25, 2016

In today's edition: the X-Files, Larry Page, Latino punk, what a film used to be, digital advertising problems, and the most sued tech company. 1. Science,...

The Material Conditions of Mundane Software Use

January 20, 2016

In today's edition: vocaloids, the end of parking, a flag of no nation, Oakland's tech, deep Silicon Valley history, and Powerpoint. We already co-create...

A Flat Screen Television Across the Pacific

January 15, 2016

In today's edition: a heartwarming story about drones, what eyes are, human-assisted search, Amazon freight, colorization, and vines. When the Real Future TV...

Covert Agency

January 14, 2016

In today's edition: a Stingray yarn, working around algorithms, computing master metaphors, evaluating moonshots, and the airport restroom of the future....

To Explore the Deeper Possibilities of The

January 12, 2016

In today's edition: revenge porn, feminist futures, the purpose of life, the future of work, Bowienet, and machines that get jokes. It's here! After the...

Which Biological Materials Are Collectively Owned

January 6, 2016

In today's edition: open-source sex hormones, the metastructure, brain reductionism, exploring segregation, simulating the sunset, and The Lonely Web. 1. A...

Quantifiable Information, Liquid Body Armour, Etc

January 4, 2016

In today's edition: fighting, stealing, machine learning for artists, neuroimmunology, and the mental health of farmers. 1. The future of war. "The future of...

Between Display and Environment

December 31, 2015

So, it's December 31. It's been a wild year. We made a TV show (which comes out next month!). And made the Real Future Fair happen in November. It's been a...

Inadvertence, Miscalculation, Misperception

November 11, 2015

In today's edition: portable benefits, stingrays, sleep music, accidental apocalypse, and digital work in the country's poorest places. 1. Unlinking benefits...

Hop in Any Unproven Aircraft

November 5, 2015

In today's edition: the New Deep South, slowed-down Chippunk, new spreadsheets, regional language, and two guys who will fly anything. ***The Real Future...

A Monitoring System on Top of a Hawaiian Volcano

November 4, 2015

In today's edition: the Tetris effect, the fragile web, what might happen to the Space Station, climate science history, and the smell of lactones. ***The...

The Position of Obstacles Seen in the Past

November 3, 2015

In today's edition: health and wealth, drones avoiding crashes, Pantone, Octavio Butler, and the thing you didn't know you'd been wondering about giraffes....

In Effect, Drinkable Nostalgia

November 2, 2015

In today's edition: the supply side, bug collectors, record media consumption, Kraftwerk's first show, and an AI pioneer's disappointment. ***The Real Future...

Impressive Concrete Spans

October 30, 2015

In today's edition: taste beyond the tongue, bacterial second-skins, trashlessness, hero dentists, and failed architecture. ***The Real Future Fair is coming...

Step 1: Create a Body Apparatus

October 28, 2015

In today's edition: a moon's plume, genesis, the value of weather data, the audio recordings of the Yahi, and embryonic spaces. ***The Real Future Fair is...

Cyborg-Looking Welded Sculptures of Flowering Plants

October 27, 2015

In today's edition: the sports machine, blockchain art, the machines' cell network, a mummy, and a parable of post-industrial life. ***The Real Future Fair...

The Egg Subsumes the Sperm

October 26, 2015

In today's edition: Google's RankBrain, a futures market as art, the Chinese Titanic, "life-style," and fertilization verbs. ***The Real Future Fair is...

Traced Back to Compromised CCTV Cameras

October 23, 2015

***The awesome New Hive working with us on art for the Real Future Fair, and they're looking for submissions. Alllssooo, from now until the Fair, I'll be...

Haunted by the Utopia It Never Quite Became

October 21, 2015

***The Real Future Fair is coming to San Francisco, November 6-7. The event is literally this newsletter incarnate! Cop tickets.*** 1. Why and how are...

Double the Amount of Muscle Mass by Deleting a Gene

October 19, 2015

***The Real Future Fair is coming to San Francisco, November 6-7. Go get some tickets.*** 1. Clay Shirky looks into Xiaomi and the state of the Chinese...