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Reid Hoffman makes a plea for philosophy

Full recording of Venkat’s brainmelt talk to STRELKA on Artificial Intelligence/Time - Using Roam as a canvas

About the shift of the fundamentals of architecture towards social and environmental questions at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale

Planetary realism challenges the old geopolitics of competing nation-states acting in their narrow self-interest.

About building civic infrastructures in a complex world

About a world without big tech platforms as a viable conception of the future.

Mikel Cirkus about scent memories of towels at the pool

Geoff Manaugh finds escape during pandemic quarantine through the Library of Congress’s U.S. Geological Survey map archive.

In the 1930s, biologists began to study ecosystems as a whole as well as individual organisms. Here’s my argument that we need a similar shift in studying digital media.

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The company is intensifying formal partnerships with faith groups across the United States and shaping the future of religious experience.

A growing number of companies are taking climate action, but when will they meet their goals? This timeline provides a holistic overview.

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.

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Are you taking the time to analyze exactly HOW entire industries are being revolutionized from the bottom up? Over the next decade, waves of exponential tech advancements will stack atop one another…

Scientists built a nanobot swarm that can read and transmit your brain activity, allowing them to wirelessly diagnose disease or analyze neural signals.

If you want to beat Amazon, be memorable. Let me explain to you why I think “Experiential Commerce” is the new e-commerce. This will equip you to beat Amazon by playing a different game. In Welcome to the Spontaneous Internet, I discussed how ‘hanging out online’ is undergoing a large-scale shift towards virtual spaces that are spontaneous, social and raw.

Young people in China have set off a nascent counterculture movement that involves lying down and doing as little as possible.

The mechanisms that enable self-management also balance freedom and control

What is play anyway? When we talk about play we aren’t talking simply being silly. True, authentic play is joy-filled, but it isn’t trivial. In fact, it is critical to our health as sleep or nutrition. It is any activity that we enjoy.

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

In the 1930s, biologists began to study ecosystems as a whole as well as individual organisms. Here’s my argument that we need a similar shift in studying digital media.

The Facebook CEO talks to Casey Newton about why he is putting his company’s resources toward the “metaverse,” a future that imagines an internet that combines physical, augmented, and virtual realities.

Revolut’s Stays will allow users to book hotels and accommodations and will be expanded later to include flight booking and car hire options.

Today Booking.com announced the creation of a new internal FinTech business unit to facilitate seamless access to the company’s global travel marketplace for both customers and partners.

Revolut is a six-year-old British financial & technology (Fintech) startup. Six years is a remarkably short time span when you consider other financial companies. The Charles Schwab Corporation, on…

The Exponential Age is coming like a tsunami, breaking down all barriers to the dematerialization of all analog sectors into the new digital world. Jack Dorsey is a massive fan of the…

Super apps are trending across the continent; here’s a primer on who, what, where, and why.

Why did 11:FS build the first true Financial Services Operating System (FS OS)?

My north star(s) for philosophy, management, and politics are Star Wars, The Sopranos, and Game of Thrones, respectively. The Iron Bank (GoT) is a metaphor for today’s financial institutions, if…

Find out how tech giants like Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon are conquering key financial services verticals in this free report.

When it comes down to it, it doesn’t matter whether you are sending dollars or Dogecoin, the identity expenses dwarf the payment expenses. So if we are going to reduce the cost of remittances, that is where we need to focus.

For years, the powers that be on Wall Street have toyed with questions about whether it would be feasible to move the stock market onto a blockchain, the underlying technology behind…

Crypto assets are about new financial markets and institutions, not new money. That’s why they are interesting.

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Notions of beauty and attractiveness are now less clearly delineated and also less linear than once they were. 

Experience the world of face detection algorithms in this freaky test.

The creation, development, and deployment of machine translation technology is historically entangled with practices of surveillance and governance

About Geoff Manaugh’s new book “Until Proven Safe” - a history of quarantines.

Defining the now obvious context-collapse of human computer interaction. Driven by underpowered consumer tech, aesthetic flattening is a lossy, compressed parsing of almost all creative or expressive output is the logical result of a computing world that failed to reach its potential, accelerated to its breaking point by the pandemic.

About Other Worlds, a shapeshifting journal for design research, criticism and transformation. 

The Terraforming 2021: For Planetary Governance Introduction by Benjamin Bratton for Strelka Institute for Media Architecture and Design, Moskow

The Jordaens Van Dyck Journal publishes the wide-ranging findings of the international and multidisciplinary Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Paintings Project. The four-part series will be available as an online open-access publication with print-on-demand availability. The first issue appeared in July 2021.

An interview with artist Luc Tuymans

Alexander Whitley’s new production Anti-Body explores the biological form of the human body and the technological drive to transcend it. Three performers, isolated…

Far be it from me, or anyone, to know the future, but several signs point toward another season or two of staying indoors – and maybe putting travel plans on hold again. Open Culture, openculture.com

TRIENNALE Brugge 2021 - video-Patrick Baele

Iris van Herpen shows her latest collection ‘Earthrise’ during Paris Haute Couture Week on July, 5th 2021. ~With our planet positioned at the forefront of th…

Water then food. Agriculture then industry. Old then new. Critical then extra. Simple to complex. Concrete to abstract. Dirt to clouds. Real to unreal. Computering:…

As Starlink Vice President Jonathan Hofeller puts it: “To me, it feels like when you are watching those satellites fly across the sky, and even when they’re …

Fragile Future by Studio Drift is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery Film by Xinix Films Music by Patrick Watson, Chris Zabriskie With Fragile Fut…

If there’s a hotel with infinite rooms, could it ever be completely full? Could you run out of space to put everyone? The surprising answer is yes – this is…