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Bring Together Iconic and Lesser-Known Works
October 15, 2015
It's happening! The Real Future Fair, our biggest event of the year, is coming to San Francisco, November 6-7. When I took this gig at Fusion, this is the...
Where Nobody Cares About Gender
October 6, 2015
1. The submarine fleet could be seen as underwater spaceships. "'We have a shared interest with the Navy in team resilience,' Brandon Vessey, a scientist...
Seamless, Efficient Plumbing for Digital Books
October 1, 2015
1. A believer in digital books loses the faith. "As a consumer of digital books I feel delighted, but as a reader, I feel crestfallen. All of the consumption...
Even Buildings Will Behave in the Same Vaguely Suspicious Way
September 28, 2015
1. A fascinating look at what the VW scandal really portends. "So the fact is that our experience of the world will increasingly come to reflect our...
It Doesn't Know What You Want Until You Teach It
September 16, 2015
1. An economist looks at the efficiency of the dark-web drug market. "The facilitator rents a carefully vetted Airbnb and arranges for a naive student to be...
Woken From His Nap by the Noise of the Drone
August 27, 2015
1. A fascinating anecdote about the discovery of a new edge-case for Google's self-driving cars: fixie riders. "[The Google car] apparently detected my...
A Mashup of Superheroes, Sci-fi, and Sometimes Romance
August 24, 2015
Don't forget: we're coming to New York with a brand-new live show called The Real Future of Deceit. Come meet me and the rest of my crew. 1. Energy headlines...
We Couldn't Believe Anything Was Ever Designed This Way
August 20, 2015
Remember how I told you about our first live show in Los Angeles last month? Well, we're coming to New York on Monday, September 14 with a brand-new live...
Like Branding, Chaos Magic Is Mostly Concerned with Inception
August 19, 2015
1. K-Hole, the (weird/fascinating/shingy) trend-forecasting firm that brought you the term "normcore," has released a new issue. This one is about magic,...
Their Own Strange Personalities, Different from Any Human
August 14, 2015
1. If you subscribe to this newsletter, you will almost certainly like the new USA show Mr. Robot. "Creator Sam Esmail, who is Egyptian, has said in...
Such a Network Is Potentially More Survivable
August 11, 2015
1. How cheap can solar electricity get? "What this graph shows is that, if solar electricity continues its current learning rate, by the time solar capacity...
I Prefer a Complete Captain
July 23, 2015
1. First-draft-of-history type story about Crispr, the gene-editing technology we've been talking about a lot. "These problems don't end with mosquitoes. One...
Bees as Efficient and Effective Homeland Security
July 21, 2015
1. A disability-themed anthology of speculative fiction. "The fifteen authors and nine artists in this volume bring us beautiful, speculative stories of...
Doppler Passbys & Moves at Various Speeds
July 15, 2015
1. Drone footage is a visual medium, but it doesn't have to be that way. "From a sound designers perspective I LOVE the idea I can control & perform...
The Island Had to be Completely Self-Sufficient
July 14, 2015
1. It's going to take the New Horizons spacecraft until late 2016 finish sending us all the Pluto data. "A major challenge for the New Horizons mission is...
Everything West of Interstate 5 Will Be Toast
July 13, 2015
1. The biggest of big ones—earthquakes, that is—is unthinkable and yet... "When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from...
The Abortion Pills That Were Delivered to Them by the Drones
June 30, 2015
Los Angeles friends: we're excited to announce that Peabody Award winner and former Director of The Moth Lea Thau will join our Real Future of Romance event...
The Emerging World of Teledildonics
June 17, 2015
Hey friends, I want to tell you about something awesome: I'm hosting a live journalism event about the Real Future of Romance in Los Angeles on July 8th,...
Among Quantum Physicists and Philosophers as a Kind of Underground Manuscript
June 15, 2015
1. Can you engineer the circadian rhythm? "Non-scientists generally think of “circadian clock” as a metaphoric term. There’s nothing literally ticking away...
The Future Is a Season
June 10, 2015
If you're keeping tabs on the literary technosatire mystery I sent out earlier this week, I've got a couple of updates and new clues for you. My request for...
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