Six Signals By Ethical Futures Lab Six Signals: Emerging futures, 6 links at a time. 416 subscribers 17 issues Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Are you a robot? 🤖
#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
#5 Jul 29, 2019 Cars but not for driving, and doorbells but not for ringing – From the newly-minted Ethical Futures Lab, this is Six Signals: a bi-weekly newsletter that finds and
#4 Jul 15, 2019 Retail arbitrage and mediated reality – This week we focus on the impact of computing and technology on our physical spaces. Rather than bein
#3 Jul 1, 2019 Ethical design and bio bots – About seven years ago, we put together a presentation called "Atoms are the new bits". This week's si
#2 Jun 17, 2019 Reality training and robot furniture – In this week’s signals we are hearing a lot about spaces: real, virtual, hidden, and cramped. The peo
#1 Jun 4, 2019 DNAdvertising and biometric tattoos – This week’s Six Signals contains several speculative explorations, from a rethinking of the operating
