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Neurorights, visuAIsed Futures, and Roundup #26
While protecting ourselves from fires, AI, and brain scans, we draw lights, hear silence, discover a virgin birth, work later, and navigate emerging…
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Brent Turner
Joyful Horror, Lensless Photography, and Roundup #25
In which we discover that holobionts, synthfluencers, paragraphica, and sweaty mankins in a dystopian-loving creatorsphere were not enough to distract…
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Brent Turner
AI vs. AGI, AI vs. Human Badges, and (AI-free) Roundup #24
Nestled between two heady AI topics, we open two tabbed drinks and stream our underwear while we wait for uninfectable organisms to be sent to orbital…
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Prompt Engineers, Design Revolutions, and Roundup #23
One day “organoid intelligence” (OI) will be bigger than AI. Until then, there are scienced-up surfaces to paint, funky foods to try, and prompts to…
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Generative Brand Identities, Future Normal, and Roundup #22
It’s time to grab some pulse-enhanced foods, pick up a new book, and go when the fourth traffic light color says so—just look out for the tractor beams…
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Organs on Demand, Metaverse Cycles, and Roundup #21
With scentware on our faces, skinstacks in our hands, new organs in our bodies, and a car that changes colors, we know when we will return to the…
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Super Apps, Leadership Neighborhoods, and Roundup #20
From France’s forecasts and Argentina’s tourism to Lego ducks and DNA advances, the intrigue and irreverence continue—and tricky questions emerge.
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DNA Phenotyping, DAO Liabilities, Infinity Articles, and Roundup #19
When we’re done, I’ll keep the maintenance going. You help NASA get ready for moon fights.
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The New New — Issue Eighteen
In which algorithmic anxiety has us heading back to the future—all while materials, vehicles, and prostheses keep getting smarter.
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The New New — Issue Seventeen
In which books and bathrooms, heat and kitchens, plus retirement and fandom all ride together in unexpected ways.
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The New New — Issue Sixteen
In which precisely sculpted sound waves, perfect chocolate, anti-idyllic places, pig-butchering, and punctuality are joined by micro-swarms of nanobots…
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The New New — Issue Fifteen
In which bionic reading speeds us up, rocket launches slow us down, and we see where food goes next.
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The New New
The New New
The important and the irreverent come together in this roundup of emerging experiences, culture-driven experiments, and scoops of perception. Published monthly(ish).
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