S06E12 of Connection Problem: Technology is (geo)political
Hello and welcome, Especially to the folks who joined in just recently. Please feel free to reach out and say hi — you can just hit reply on this email and...
S06E11 of Connection Problem: Transparency Without Accountability Is Nothing
Hullo, This episodes ships a couple of days early. I’ll be in workshops the rest of the week, so today is the only chance to send this all week. I trust it...
S06E10 of Connection Problem: An internet of excellent things
Hi, hello, bonjour, I hope this finds you well and you’re having a great week. On my end, the week is all taken up by conferences, workshops, meetings. So it...
S06E09 of Connection Problem: European AI, Artificial Stupidity & Sailing Tech Nomads
🤖👋 [“Greetings from your algorithmic overlords,”] 📰 📰 📰 ["Lots of news to discuss.] 🏁👇 [“Let's go.”] × If you'd like to work with me or bounce ideas, let's...
S06E08 of Connection Problem: Vast Asymetries & Very Good Futures
Hello and welcome, As we’re headed into conference season and — someone despite myself, but of course also enjoying that bit — I find myself with a bunch of...
S06E07 of Connection Problem: Degrowth, AI deserts, remote planets
Hello and welcome, As physicists have just reminded us (and how they’ve driven home that point) we’re on a tiny planet in a remote corner of the universe,...
S06E06 of Connection Problem: Road tripping (Part 2)
Hi there, Welcome to the Climate Action edition. It’s been a week of climate! climate! climate! around the world. The UN had a summit (full of bizarre...
S06E05 of Connection Problem: Road Tripping (Part 1)
Aloha & hey hey, I’m sending this from the train; specifically, one of many legs of a series of trips. Today, I’m headed to Hamburg to speak at NEXT, which I...
S06E04 of Connection Problem: Procrasto Vendetta
Hello friends old & new, It’s home office day, because the kid wheezed at night in a way that convinced us he needed a doc in the morning, which is just the...
S06E03 of Connection Problem: IoT is not bananas / Concepts that I found helpful this week
Hello friends, It’s that time of the year where conference and workshop season snuck up on me, and my upcoming travel schedule jumps out from behind the sofa...
S06E02 of Connection Problem: Next-gen resistance<
Hello friend, Thanks for all the feedback to last week’s installment — which clocked in at a record-breaking 2,596 words, thank you for indulging me. There’s...
S06E01 of Connection Problem: Welcome to Season 6
Welcome to a new season of my weekly newsletter, Connection Problem. If you’re one of the members who joined recently, or if you have simply forgotten why...
>S05E25 of Connection Problem: The Fiction of the Smart City
This week is all centered very much around smart cities & governance. A recurring theme in this newsletter recently if ever there was one! The conversation...
S05E24 of Connection Problem: Ambient privacy & participation at the (smart) street level
“Sustainability always looks like underutilization when compared to resource extraction” — Deb Chachra, Metafoundry In Berlin, we’re coming off of the tail...
S05E23 of Connection Problem: Policy Week / Facebook’s Power Grab / Nice Miscellanea
It was officially Policy Week over here, with 2 out of 3 events of the week focused on policy first and foremost. Which also means I was still on the road a...
S05E22 of Connection Problem: Shifting Alliances
Welcome back. I’m writing this during a longer train ride from Berlin to Brussels, hurtling through space at a comfortable 240 Km/h (150 mph), past green...
S05E21 of Connection Problem: Wrong/interesting/excellent futures
"In my opinion, it’s a task in life to train oneself to speak as clearly as possible. This isn’t achieved by paying special attention to words, but by...
S05E20 of Connection Problem: Getting Smart Cities right
It’s been a bit of a crunch week here, with lots of writing and paperwork to sort out, projects ramping up, exciting opportunities opening up. Oh, and heads-...
S05E19 of Connection Problem: The best of times, the worst of times
Today’s issue comes to you from Brussels, where I’m writing this in transit. I’m here to discuss digital futures, and so it just seems appropriate that this...
S05E18 of Connection Problem: Points of Leverage
Welcome. Republica came and went, and with it a flood of folks from all over who rolled through Berlin. I didn’t have quite as much time to socialize as I’d...