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June 5 · Issue #160 · View online
Articles/posts that for some reason created a spark in my memory.
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Growing Institutional Imagination Capacity and Collective Intelligence in a Complex World
About desired, timeless, and moral futures. By Phoebe Tickell
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The Impossible Train Story - by #MoralImaginations on Vimeo
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Non-Human Words: On GPT-3 as a Philosophical Laboratory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences
About the effect of OpenAI’s GPT-3 on the modern concept of the human and the philosophical disruptions they provoke: can we liberate AI from the concept of the human we inherited from the past? By Tobias Rees
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Don’t Underestimate Stupid. Big firms and wealthy individuals are… | by Scott Galloway | Jun, 2022 | Medium
About Big Stupid, Rich Stupid, and Self Stupid. by Scott Galloway “An organization is a means of leveraging one of our species’ superpowers: cooperation. This is a tool that encourages anti-cooperation, full stop”
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A Developmental Future. The Future cannot be trapped by Risk. | by Indy Johar | Apr, 2022 | Dark Matter Laboratories
About the need to break the stranglehold of risk and embrace the next developmental innovation capacity. By Indy Johar “This next developmental future must recognise a planetary entanglement in which human, machines, ecological systems are increasingly indivisible”
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Brian Eno and James Bridle on Ways of Being | 5x15
About a special online event with musician and visual artist Brian Eno and writer and artist James Bridle on AI, non-human intelligence, ecology, biological computing, more-than-human relations, and much more.
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Brian Eno and James Bridle on Ways of Being | 5x15
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Computational Models of Living Systems
Drawing inspiration from nature, 3D designers and software developers mimic living systems’ patterns, structures, shapes and forms. From modelling the struct…
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Computational Models of Living Systems
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The Elondrop
Build the political support necessary to free Twitter with the largest airdrop in history.
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Why Isn’t New Technology Making Us More Productive? - The New York Times
Innovations like cloud computing and artificial intelligence are hailed as engines of a coming productivity revival. But a broad payoff across the economy has been elusive.
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DM Note #8: On Art, Imagination Infrastructures, and Shared Memories of the Future | by Dark Matter | Apr, 2022 | Dark Matter Laboratories
This is the 8th in a series of DM notes, which share information and insights from DM Downloads — our regular internal learning sessions. The aim is to make our practice more legible, for us as well…
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Yearning for Proof. The real incentive for blockchains | by Douglas Rushkoff | Apr, 2022 | OneZero
I’ve made no secret of my skepticism about the blockchain as a solution for our economic woes. Yes, the economy is tilted, corrupt, and easily gamed — but the solution is likely social, not…
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A Letter from the Chief Executive Officer
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The roads not taken
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Why the Nineties rocked - UnHerd
Back then we still had a future to yearn for
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The Fabric of Society. How haggling holds us all together | by Douglas Rushkoff | Mar, 2022 | Medium
I was running late for class last week, so I hopped in the car and drove to the closest parking lot I could find to the CUNY Journalism School, which turned out to be up on the roof of the Port…
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The Myth of the Machine - by L. M. Sacasas
Listen now | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 7
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Opinion | Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun. - The New York Times
We’re entering the age of red world versus blue world.
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Every Bay Area House Party - by Scott Alexander
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“The Times Ahead Will Be Radically Different” — Ray Dalio | by Carlos Pascual | Asymmetric Finance | May, 2022 | Medium
Ray Dalio warns us in his new book that times have changed and we are facing a new paradigm.
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Strategy, Disruption & You. Overcoming the Technocratic Urge | by Roger Martin | Apr, 2022 | Medium
During this long and painful run of COVID waves, plus the tragic mess in Ukraine, I have gotten a never-ending stream of assertions that doing strategy makes no sense in the face of such disruptions…
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TechBio: a new stack for a new biology
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Good Times in The Great Revaluation - by Eric Newcomer
Exclusive slides from Laurence Tosi + a16z’s view on the downturn
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Towards Management Metamodernism - by Venkatesh Rao
Defining the fundamental challenge of lorecraft
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Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report - a16z crypto
The 2022 State of Crypto report is a16z crypto’s first-ever data-driven overview and analysis of web3 and crypto.
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Can Robots Yearn For Phantom Limbs? - by Venkatesh Rao
What is interesting about robots on a 500-year horizon?
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Why We’re Creating Language to Hide from Tech’s Censorship Systems | by Jamie Cohen | Apr, 2022 | OneZero
From txtspk to l33tsp34k to emojis to memes, we’ve been encoding language based on both our technology’s capabilities and our ability to find ways to communicate effectively on digital…
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The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence | American Academy of Arts and Sciences
In 1950, Alan Turing proposed a test of whether a machine was intelligent: could a machine imitate a human so well that its answers to questions were indistinguishable from a human’s?
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A new vision of artificial intelligence for the people | MIT Technology Review
ln a remote rural town in New Zealand, an Indigenous couple is challenging what AI could be and who it should serve.
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Dyson gives glimpse of secret robot prototypes which appear to carry out household chores
Need a helping hand around the home?Today, at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Philadelphia, Dyson gives a glimpse into the future …
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Dyson gives glimpse of secret robot prototypes which appear to carry out household chores
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Jack Dorsey’s First-Tweet NFT, Listed at $48 Million, Has Lost 99% Of Its Value | by Stephen Moore | Apr, 2022 | OneZero
When crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi purchased the NFT of Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet back in March 2021 for a staggering $2.9 million, the world was divided into two groups.
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NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare | WIRED
The blockchain isn’t as “anonymous” as you might think.
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Web3 — Building trust in ‘trustless’ communities | by DocTom | Apr, 2022 | Medium
While the definition of trustless is “not deserving of trust,” in web3 it means something completely different. Trustlessness in the blockchain and crypto space simply means you do not need to place…
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The Building Blocks Thesis — Deep-Dive Report | by Sangeet Paul Choudary | May, 2022 | Medium
Over the past month, we’ve been building out the Building Blocks thesis on this newsletter. I’m thrilled to announce today the launch of the fully illustrated deep-dive report on the Building Blocks…
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Web3 competitive advantage: Winning in open and decentralized ecosystems | by Sangeet Paul Choudary | BosonProtocol | May, 2022 | Medium
Competition is the art of accessing and managing scarce resources to create advantage. Changes in technology shift scarcity, thereby changing the basis of competition. The ‘new competitors’ look…
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Tokengated Commerce - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
Alex Danco Joins to Explain NFTs and How Shopify is Becoming Wallet-Aware
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The Metaverse Hype Cycle. Past, Present, Future | by Avi Bar-Zeev | Predict | Apr, 2022 | Medium
We’ve seen a lot of ups and downs with various terms in Spatial Computing. Ironically that umbrella term has remained largely below the radar. I recall us first using it around 1992 in a startup, but…
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Decrypting The Future. A new report from Citigroup subtitled… | by Jennifer L. Schenker | Apr, 2022 | The Innovator news
A new report from Citigroup subtitled “Decrypting The Future” predicts the metaverse may be the next generation of the Internet — combining the physical and digital world “in a persistent and…
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Embodied Interfaces: NUMENA Lane - Elevator & Infinite Wall
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Embodied Interfaces: NUMENA Lane - Elevator & Infinite Wall
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13 May 2022 Andreea Ion Cojocaru
Really starts at min 13:00
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13 May 2022 Andreea Ion Cojocaru
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Meta is reportedly making ‘Zuck Bucks’ - The Verge
Meta is working on a few finance projects, according to a Financial Times report, including a virtual currency employees have apparently taken to calling “Zuck Bucks.”
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7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse | Future
What exactly is a metaverse? And how is it different from any other virtual world? Here’s an overview of its defining features, and how it intersects with web3.
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CRISPR "Visitor Experience" by Francesca
This is “Visitor Experience” by Francesca on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Visitor Experience on Vimeo
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Tobias Revell – Haunted Machines on Vimeo
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Tobias Revell – Haunted Machines on Vimeo
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Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires | by Douglas Rushkoff | May, 2022 | Medium
I learned this when I traveled to a remote resort to deliver was supposed to be a talk for a group of tech investors. It turned out to be something of a “consult” to five…
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San Francisco police stop self-driving car – and find nobody inside, video shows | Self-driving cars | The Guardian
Clip prompts amusement online as car stops, then drives across an intersection, leaving police behind
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David Claerbout, Hemispheres on Vimeo
David Claerbout, Hemispheres Esther Schipper, Berlin Opening Friday April 29, 6–9pm as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin. I tend not to intervene, but to take care
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David Claerbout, Hemispheres on Vimeo
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DALL·E 2
DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
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Berlinde de Bruyckere - Parel uit het archief on Vimeo
Film: Gerrit Schreurs. I had the pleasure to visit the studio of Berlinde De Bruyckere
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Berlinde de Bruyckere - Parel uit het archief on Vimeo
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The Milk of Dreams | DAMN° Magazine
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Alles gebeurt op scène in De bekeerlinge
About the opera De bekeerlinge. With artist Hans Op De Beeck who made the costumes and scenery. Great quote by Hans: I choose very explicitly to create a quietness there, a calmness and a slowness. I make more the small movement, or the steady, slow, slow movement, versus the intensity of the emotions and the grandeur of the music.
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The stage in De bekeerlinge
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Academie Gent - I know a lot not - Ludo Wieme - Digitale Beeldende Kunst
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Academie Gent - I know a lot not - Ludo Wieme - Digitale Beeldende Kunst
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Luc Deleu trip to GravityX
Petervan impression of Luc Deleu’s expo “Future Plans”. Video editing and soundscape by Petervan
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Luc Deleu trip to GravityX
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The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience
Watch ‘The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience’ here! To download this new UE5 tech demo on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, visit: Download for …
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The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience
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VALENTINO PINK PP COLLECTION
ValentinoPinkPPCollection, the Maison’s latest show, will be revealed from Paris on Sunday, March 6th. Tune in at 3:00PM CET to experience the show, streami…
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VALENTINO PINK PP COLLECTION
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Balenciaga NYC Show Spring 23 Collection
BalenciagaNYC Show Spring 23 CollectionMay 22nd 2022 at 11:30 AM ET
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Balenciaga NYC Show Spring 23 Collection
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Gil Delindro: Holy Moly | DAMN° Magazine
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Charlotte de Witte at EDC Las Vegas 2022 (Circuit Grounds Stage)
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Charlotte de Witte at EDC Las Vegas 2022 (Circuit Grounds Stage)
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Vampire Association Warns Against Drinking Human Blood
“Transformers” actor Megan Fox likes drinking blood from her boyfriend, the rapper Machine Gun Kelly’s blood. Here’s why that’s a terrible idea.
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