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Climate
Consumed by Richard John Seymour
Consumed is a cinematic journey through the landscapes, mines, factories, and shipyards of Chinese production. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, a single worker narrates his story to the rhythm of industrial machinery.
Believer Mag
Tech
Ghosts
I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death—so I had AI do it for me.
Noema
Life
Science
Planetary Sapience
Planetary-scale computation — an emergent intelligence that is both machine and human — gave us the perspective to see Earth as an interconnected whole; with it we must now conceive an intentional and worthwhile planetary-scale terraforming.
Real Life
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Why Can’t We Be Friends
Over the past decade, it has become increasingly common for people to develop intense one-sided relationships with famous people on the internet. What are called parasocial relationships (meaning almost social, or perversely social) have spread almost everywhere.
Nature
Tech
Ethics
Everyone should decide how their digital data are used — not just tech companies
Smartphones, sensors and consumer habits reveal much about society. Too few people have a say in how these data are created and used.
The Guardian
Climate
Eve: the off-grid life of a nine-year-old climate activist
Eve is the intimate story of a nine-year-old girl living in one of the oldest off-grid communities in the UK, Tinkers Bubble in Somerset. We follow the fledging climate activist as she navigates her way back into traditional schooling and proudly speaks up for her passionate belief in the environment.
The Guardian
Nature
Design
The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be
Visions of “lost cities” in the jungle have consumed western imaginations since Europeans first visited the tropics of Asia, Africa and the Americas.
WIRED
Digital
Life
Everything Is Becoming Paywalled Content—Even You
Every piece of the internet will soon come with a price tag. Welcome to the age of the subscription ouroboros.
ESRA
Climate
Ecological crises and equitable futures
Activism in the 20th century was largely dominated by struggles over labour and social justice. Conflicts between and within capitalism, socialism, communism and fascism were at the heart of many key events.
Climate
Design
The Stack, Terraforming and Digital Design Futures
"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next."
Climate
Future Myopia
As a historian interested in the social history of environmentalism, I spend a lot of time thinking about what people in the past thought about the future.
Elephant
Digital
Media
Is Instagram Twisting Art into Its Own Image?
Working in her studio during a recent long weekend, the last thing artist Sophie Goodchild anticipated was finding herself suddenly excommunicated from Instagram. Without warning, the final year Royal College of Art student’s account was disabled. Panic ensued.
VICE
Digital
Health
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body
Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind. Late in 1980, Henry Getson of Cherry Hill, New Jersey wrote in to his favorite computer hobbyist magazine, Softalk.
WIRED UK
Climate
Nature
The fight for quiet in a world full of noise pollution
Quiet Parks International wants to reclaim calm among the chaos by protecting natural environments from manmade noise.
Aeon
Climate
The miracle of the commons
Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight.
Real Life
Climate
Tech
Appropriate Measures
Changing the tech we use is not enough to mitigate the environmental and social harm of mass technology.
The Guardian
Climate
Beneath the blue: dive into a dazzling ocean under threat
Descend through the different zones of the ocean to discover its mesmerising marine life, how human pollutants are interfering – and what we can still do about it.
SPACE10
Design
Beyond Human-Centered Design
It goes without saying that design needs to be good for the many. After all, the purpose of design is to solve problems and create solutions that make everyday life better — from objects in the home, to what we wear, how we travel and communicate.
Smithsonian Magazine
Science
Nature
What Japan’s Wild Snow Monkeys Can Teach Us About Animal Culture
Scientists have been studying the primates at some of the nation’s hot springs, and what they have learned about evolution is astonishing.
The Guardian
Design
China's rural revolution: the architects rescuing its villages from oblivion
In the remote Chinese village of Caizhai, a series of wooden pavilions step down a slope next to a babbling brook, their pitched tiled roofs echoing the rocky peaks of the mountains behind.
e-flux
Digital
Art
My Collectible Ass
To think about digital objects as collectable, it may help to start by asking what it is that is actually collected. We tend to think that what is collected is a rare object. But what makes it rare? Perhaps there is more than one way to make an object rare.
ELEPHANT
Digital
Life
How NFTs Are Transforming What It Means to Buy and Sell Art
Debates about non-fungible tokens, the art world’s favourite new buzzword, have raised hotly contested questions about the future of digital art. What comes next?
Wikipedia
Book
The Gene: An Intimate History
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to "read" and "write" our own genetic information?
Variant
Tech
NFTs make the internet ownable
Why crypto is becoming the "port of entry" for all internet media. Before tech, I was an artist manager in music. When I started the firm, I believed one thing about the music industry very firmly: ownership endows power. Typically, labels had ownership over the music, and thus, power over artists.
The New York Times
Tech
Insight
I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age
The internet rewired our brains. He predicted it would.
Next Nature
Design
Insight
Nurturing Architecture
Millions of years ago, humans evolved on the savannah. There were no smartphones, cities or highways. Our living environment has changed completely. The way we currently build is not sustainable.
Another Podcast
Tech
Insight
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
Are social apps technology, media or pop culture? How many times can you re-invent the same forms?
Breaking Smart
Insight
Anti-Network Effects
"Governments around the world are working out the logistics problems of distributing billions of vaccine doses. It feels like a symbol of the times we are entering into, times that I think will be defined by anti-network effects."
New York Magazine
Climate
After Alarmism
The war on climate denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
Aeon
Insight
How to be a genius
I traveled the world and trawled the archive to unearth the hidden lessons from history’s most brilliant people.
Medium
Climate
Insight
Other Species are Essential Workers, whose economies enfold our own.
Is human society collapsing because we don’t recognize the work and intelligence of other species?
Design Matters
Mindfulness
Life
Design Matters: Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović reflects on all the moments that made her the performance genius that she is today—in which the artist is, indeed, utterly present.
Psyche
Mental
Health
How to be lucky
Most of us think that luck just happens (or doesn’t) but everyone can learn to look for the unexpected and find serendipity.
TED
Health
Here’s why you get gloomy in the winter — and what you can do about it
If the darkening evenings and turning leaves induce a mild sense of dread in you every year, you’re not alone.
Offscreen Mag
Insight
"That’s not to say that fiction has no ‘value’ for self-development."
"I think we can all agree that what the people creating new technology needs more of right now is the ability to step into the shoes of others who don’t think, look, or live like them."
Tony Robbins Podcast
Business
Insight
The Future of Food, Energy and Space
In this episode, Tony Robbins sits down with four extraordinary human beings that are working to solve major global issues, who believe so strongly in their solutions and have so much certainty that it’s almost contagious.
The New Yorker
Life
Insight
The Art of Decision-Making
In July of 1838, Charles Darwin was twenty-nine years old and single. Two years earlier, he had returned from his voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle with the observations that would eventually form the basis of “On the Origin of Species.” In the meantime, he faced a more pressing analytical problem.
WIRED
Tech
30 Years Since the Human Genome Project Began, What’s Next?
In 1987, when researchers first used the word genomics to describe the newly developing discipline of mapping DNA, Eric Green had just finished medical school. A few years later, he found himself working on the front lines of the young field’s marquee moon shot: the Human Genome Project.
NPR
Health
Insight
Michael Pollan Explains Caffeine Cravings (And Why You Don't Have To Quit)
After wrapping up his book about the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs, author Michael Pollan turned his attention to a drug that's hidden "in plain sight" in many people's lives: caffeine. "Here's a drug we use every day.
NFX Podcast
Business
Tech
Don't just be the best, be the Only" with Kevin Kelly & James Currier
In this candid conversation with iconic tech thinker Kevin Kelly (founding Editor of Wired), we discuss inspirational and transformative advice for early-stage Founders reflecting on the work they’re doing, why they’re doing it, and how it all adds up in the long term.
Atmos
Climate
A Wave of Change: Jamie Margolin and Jane Goodall
Over the last few years, youth activists have taken on the climate crisis as the cause of their lives, largely because it will determine the course of them.
OneZero
Tech
Insight
The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand
Vast systems, from automated supply chains to high-frequency trading, now undergird our daily lives — and we’re losing control of all of them.
MIT Technology Review
Tech
Fair value? Fixing the data economy
The data economy is facing a social reckoning, say leading voices in industry, government, and academia. But what went wrong? And how can we fix it? Each innovation challenges the norms, codes, and values of the society in which it is embedded.
WIRED
Digital
Life
Mindfulness
The Glorious, Almost-Disconnected Boredom of My Walk in Japan
How I modified my digital tools to reconnect with time on a six-week, 620-mile trip on foot across the country.
Digital
Life
The Price of Distraction
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Adam Gazzaley about the way our technology is changing us.
Elemental
Digital
Health
The Cognition Crisis
Anxiety. Depression. ADHD. Dementia. The human brain is in trouble. Technology is a cause — and a solution.
The New York Times
Life
Yo-Yo Ma and the Meaning of Life
The immensity of Yo-Yo Ma’s talent is such that he would be globally admired if all he ever did was appear onstage or in a recording studio and then vanish after the last notes faded from his cello.
Other Internet
Business
Tech
Headless Brands
While brands have traditionally been planned and designed directly by corporations, the rise of networked media has challenged the coherence of centrally-managed brand identities.
@simondlr
Tech
Artistry In The Age of GPT-3
Imagine a story containing Claude Shannon, Alan Turing…and Harry Potter. Now, imagine it being written by an AI.
The Correspondent
Tech
Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.
Tim Ferris Show
Insight
Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens, Forging the Skill of Awareness, and The Power of Disguised Books
WIRED
Business
Tech
With Its Own Chips, Apple Aims to Define the Future of PCs
Apple has long been the lone wolf of the personal computer industry in maintaining its own operating system instead of licensing Microsoft’s Windows as rivals do. Tuesday it struck out further from the pack, by launching its first laptops and desktops built on processors designed wholly in house.
NFX
Tech
Status Games with Eugene Wei
Status can be a volatile, powerful driver of engagement. Status and one of its underlying mechanisms, scarcity must be considered by product designers in every category, as early on as possible.
The Guardian
Design
The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
Most chairs aren’t designed to serve human bodies – but a better seat is possible.
Folch Insights
Business
Min Lew: doing good is good business
“If we want design to be viewed as a business tool, we should start presenting projects through the lens of a business objective.” When Min Lew started out she believed she was in the business of ideas. Today, as Partner, Creative Director and Managing Director of Base New York, Min believes she is in a creative people’s business. Empathy, understanding, critical thinking and vision will be the key skills of the future.
National Geographic
Climate
Is a world without trash possible?
In Amsterdam I met a man who revealed to me the hidden currents of our lives—the massive flows of raw materials and products deployed, to such wonderful and damaging effect, by 7.7 billion humans. Our shared metabolism, you might say.
SSENSE
Climate
Life
Rural Futurism
We are constantly being told that more than half of the world’s population will soon be living in urban agglomerations. Countless biennials and books have questioned the way cities are changing...
Thisispaper Stream
Life
Morning walk through the forest, village and lake
Soundtrack: 尾島由郎 - Biodome
New Yorker
Digital
Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?
Tight Media
Insight
The Evolution of Merchandise
How T-shirts with prints changed the music industry.
Openhouse
Life
Kumano Kodo
Kumano Kodo is an ancient pilgrimage road located deep in the Japanese mountains south of the Kii Peninsula.
YouTube
Life
Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus
Video from Baraka (1992)
Onezero
Health
Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
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Platforms, Creative Communities, and the Need for a Radical Reimagining
Insecurity is the internet’s original sin, yet officials are fighting to undermine the encryption technologies that protect our personal information.
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What Are NFTs, Why Should Fashion Care and Will This Bubble Burst?
NFTs, the hot emerging technology with the clunky name, have galvanized the fashion sector and everyone else who sees opportunity in a crypto craze that has driven millions of dollars in recent sales.
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Climate Science, Risk & Solutions
More than 90% of climate scientists attribute the increase in global temperature over the past 30-40 years to greenhouse gases that humans have been adding to the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s.
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Digital sovereignty and smart cities: what does the future hold?
Do you think there are some elements in this project that could be used to trigger similar processes in other cities? What kind of scale do you think this may affect? One of the most important aspects of cities is their capacity to build networks, to exchange policies, projects, norms and their ap
Highsnobiety
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Creativity Is Dead, Long Live Curation | Highsnobiety
Highsnobiety Q3 is the third in a series of quarterly insight weeks dedicated to the business behind youth culture and what makes our market tick. Head over to our Q3 hub to see the full series. There’s no mistaking an Acne Studios store for any other.
Bloomberg
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How 2020 Remapped Your Worlds
Maps are used to explore the world, but they also offer exploration within their own boundaries.
The Guardian
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The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret
The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses on emissions, the lithium gold rush threatens environmental damage on an industrial scale
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She Wants Your Attention, She’s the Voice of the City
I sat in the airport waiting room for the first time in months, anxiously observing and listening closely to my surroundings to see what had altered within this strange and yet all too familiar setting.
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Living online and IRL
What happens when real life collides with your digital existence – the writer and ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter’ Patricia Lockwood talks to Andrew Marr.
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The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune
Kenny Chow was born in Myanmar, and moved to New York City in 1987. He worked for years as a diamond setter for a jeweller, earning enough to buy a house for his family before he was laid off in 2011.
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Want Not, Waste Not
Nathan Gardels, the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine, recently interviewed Vaclav Smil, the Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst, to talk about his new book, “Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made” (2021).
WIRED UK
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Robots are animals, not humans
In the early 2000s, a Russian man named Boris Zhurid struck a deal to sell the Iranians a large collection of weaponry. He chartered a transport aircraft to make the delivery from Sevastopol, the largest city on the Crimean Peninsula, in the Black Sea, to the Persian Gulf.
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Apocalyptic Infrastructures
For infrastructure to serve the public and steward the world’s air, water and soil for future generations, it has to be planned through more open, egalitarian and environmentally militant processes. Early on the morning of Feb.
WIRED
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The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens
A glance to the left. A flick to the right. As my eyes flitted around the room, I moved through a virtual interface only visible to me—scrolling through a calendar, looking up commute times home, and even controlling music playback.
The Guardian
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The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
‘Let’s face the considerable evidence that all sitting is harmful,” writes Galen Cranz, a design historian whose book The Chair traces this object’s long history. Not all sitting, of course. For people who use wheelchairs, they’re an elegant and crucial technology.
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Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Beeple began creating a new piece of art each day with his aptly titled “everydays” series … which ultimately led to an astonishing $69 million NFT sale. Here, he breaks down how it all happened.
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Theses on Techno-Optimism
“If you fall in love with a machine there is something wrong with your love-life. If you worship a machine there is something wrong with your religion.” – Lewis Mumford (1952) There are moments in which it is difficult to feel particularly positive about how things are going in the world.
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Minimal Maintenance
The author wishes to thank the organisers of the 2019 Liverpool Maintenance Fest, who commissioned the talk that became this essay. Not long ago in Manhattan, I attended a fancy, invitation-only panel discussion concerning a certain new luxury urban development.
The Atlantic
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I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To.
This post-pandemic summer is evidently expected to be one long orgiastic reunion, after which, once that’s out of our system, it’s back to work, back to school, to what we used to call “normal.
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Two Dozen Large Cities Produce 52 Percent of Urban Carbon Emissions
Just 25 cities globally are responsible for 52 percent of urban greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study that highlights the role that cities must play in reaching the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
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Unboxing the Toolkit
What do flower gardens, chests of drawers, chocolate cakes, and global development projects have in common? They all might find their origin in a toolkit! Given the proliferation of kits across industry sectors and everyday experiences, we’d do well to consider what the toolkit does, who it serves
ABC
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Environment as financial investment
Investing in nature presented by Gresham College. May 18, 2021
The Guardian
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The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
After years of starting the day with a tall morning coffee, followed by several glasses of green tea at intervals, and the occasional cappuccino after lunch, I quit caffeine, cold turkey.
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The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, and Who Will Build It
Note: This piece was written in January 2020. In June 2021, I released a nine-part update, 'The Metaverse Primer'. Technology frequently produces surprises that nobody predicts. However, the biggest developments are often anticipated decades in advance.
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The Digital in Architecture: Then, Now and in the Future
Today within architecture, digital tools — from machine learning to fabrication technologies, from artificial intelligence to Big Data — are becoming more and more ubiquitous and pervasive, and quickly.
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