Six Signals By Ethical Futures Lab Six Signals: Emerging futures, 6 links at a time. 596 subscribers 25 issues Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh
#22 Apr 6, 2020 Portals to the future, to information, and to each other – This week’s six signals center on doorways, both literal and metaphorical. We look forward, exploring
#21 Mar 23, 2020 Predictions, possibilities, and being alone together – We’re going to break format a bit this week because we couldn’t avoid the Topic that Shall Not Be Nam
#20 Mar 9, 2020 Bots we listen to, people we ignore, & spaces to play – Our promise to you this week: as little COVID-19 discussion as we could manage, since we’re sure you’
#19 Feb 24, 2020 Hacking trademarks, antibiotics, and the future itself – This issue covers a LOT of ground, as we consider making tech for our own purposes, unpronounceable b
#18 Feb 11, 2020 Fighting against tracking, synthetic media, and bot ennui – It’s rare that we can tell stories by threading this newsletter together, but this week, we found sev
#17 Jan 26, 2020 Road maps for our current dystopia – We compile this newsletter by collecting interesting links we encounter throughout the last two weeks
#16 Jan 13, 2020 High fliers, deep fakes, and headless cats – A lot happened this week, not least because many futurists and gadgeteers were in Las Vegas at CES. I
#15 Dec 31, 2019 Six signals for 2020: From responsive spaces to synthetic media – The end of the year is a time for reflection and for looking forward to the year to come. In this iss
#14 Dec 16, 2019 The internets of the present, and the internets yet to come – This week, we look at the multiplicity of networks that make up what we think of as the global intern
#13 Dec 2, 2019 Convenience maximalism and robot lawyers – Congratulations on finding Six Signals among all your Cyber Monday emails! In this issue we find conf
#12 Nov 18, 2019 What’s real: observation, speculation & counterfactual – This week we kept it light and breezy, with essays about how fiction can help shape reality, how smal
#11 Nov 4, 2019 You can’t solve for a non-binary world with binary technology – This week, we look at how both tech companies and government bodies are trying to solve difficult, nu
#10 Oct 21, 2019 The planned, the weird, and the unexpected – This week, we look at a number of unexpected collisions — between public and private, between diverge
#9 Oct 7, 2019 Hiding in plain sight, and knowing where everything is – In this issue, we wrestle with a basic question: who gets to decide what people know about you, and w
#8 Sep 23, 2019 Carbon-neutral design and robot eyes – This week, in honor of Friday’s Climate Strike, we review how the promise of unlimited electricity ma
#7 Sep 9, 2019 In vitro brains, ethical offsets, and (of course) MIT – After a week off spent driving 3200 miles across the U.S., from Los Angeles all the way to Brooklyn,
#6 Aug 12, 2019 Actually, there is such a thing as a free lunch – Why squint, when you can blink? Why get old, when your online persona doesn’t have to? Why grow crops
