Six Signals By Ethical Futures Lab Six Signals: Emerging futures, 6 links at a time. 789 subscribers 40 issues Subscribe to our newsletter
#37 Nov 16, 2020 Better for whom? – It seems impossible that it’s been two weeks since last we wrote, but we can’t decide if it feels mor
#36 Nov 3, 2020 The before, and the after – This is a newsletter about the possible futures we encounter. It’s about how we can make choices with
#35 Oct 19, 2020 The future of media & mediating the future – Over the last couple of weeks it’s become unavoidably clear that we have lived, and are living, throu
#34 Oct 5, 2020 Hearing what we see & seeing what we think – Agency is a critical component in successful innovations, namely: does this give its user or recipien
#33 Sep 21, 2020 The details we notice, and those we ignore – This week, we take a deeper look at perception and reality. The details that we pay attention to are
#32 Sep 7, 2020 Check your assumptions – This week, we take a look at new paradigms for augmented reality, feminist urban planning, guides to
#31 Aug 24, 2020 CG models, VC values, and AI disguises – This week, we investigate systems that are in transformation, from fashion to supply chains, and we a
#30 Jul 27, 2020 Useful randomness & how we play – This week we uncovered an assorted collection of signals that focus on how randomness can be used to
#29 Jul 13, 2020 Who decides? – This week we contend with an eternal struggle: who decides what gets made, and how we make it? Do we
#28 Jun 29, 2020 Addressable ideas & the connective tissue of the web – We’re forgoing our usual format this week to do a deeper dive on signals in a space that’s very close
#27 Jun 15, 2020 "Why is this here?" – One of Alexis’s favorite tenets is that the future is accretive: that it builds upon the past, and th
#26 Jun 1, 2020 Spaces for making, and making new spaces – As if we needed more evidence, the events of the last week all over the United States shows our exist
#25 May 18, 2020 The cathedral and the bizarre – Does it seem like everyone has suddenly started talking about a “new normal” lately? This clumsy shor
#24 May 4, 2020 The flavor of our simulated futures – It’s May now? As the trees and flowers explode around us, we’re looking deeply into simulation, parti
#23 Apr 20, 2020 Does the future look like NYC or Animal Crossing? – With all the talk of “reopening” we thought it important to speculate about what does come next, when
#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
