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My Travel Essentials

How I pre-pack my travel necessities in mesh zipper bags.

Oct 19, 2021

My Travel Essentials

Oct 19, 2021

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Urgent Futures

The Big Tent is Burning Down

The impulse for consumer brands to avoid politics seems increasingly like wishful thinking

Jan 31, 2019

The Big Tent is Burning Down

Jan 31, 2019

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Urgent Futures

How to Start Mining and Using Cryptocurrency for the Complete Beginner

I learned a lot about blockchain technology by buying and using bitcoin: how to get it, track it, trade it, and make purchases with it. I…

Mar 19, 2018

How to Start Mining and Using Cryptocurrency for the Complete Beginner

Mar 19, 2018

Published in
Urgent Futures

The Future of Computational Propaganda

On January 17, 2017, Girl 4 Trump USA joined Twitter. She was silent for a week, but on January 24, she suddenly got busy, posting an…

Feb 6, 2018

The Future of Computational Propaganda

Feb 6, 2018

Ten dollar watch/Youtube tool/The Making of Me and You

Recomendo is a weekly newsletter that gives you 6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff. Subscribe here.

Apr 4, 2017

Apr 4, 2017

Published in
Urgent Futures

It Doesn’t Have to Happen Here

Saving Our Democracy

Jan 25, 2017

It Doesn’t Have to Happen Here

Jan 25, 2017

Published in
Urgent Futures

Making the Gig Economy Work for Everyone

Ideas and prototypes at IFTF’s Positive Platform Design Jam

Dec 15, 2016

Making the Gig Economy Work for Everyone

Dec 15, 2016

Published in
Urgent Futures

What does it mean to be human in an age of machines?

A discussion with Rod Falcon, Director of the Technology Horizons Program at Institute for the Future

Nov 8, 2016

What does it mean to be human in an age of machines?

Nov 8, 2016

Published in
Urgent Futures

The Secret Aid Worker

Here’s what happened when Mike Zuckerman brought his San Francisco culture hacking ethos to the migrant camps in Greece

Sep 20, 2016

The Secret Aid Worker

Sep 20, 2016

Six cool things from the Recomendo newsletter

Recomendo: issue no. 5

Aug 28, 2016

Six cool things from the Recomendo newsletter

Aug 28, 2016

Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder

Research director at Institute for the Future. Co-founder, Boing Boing, editor-in-chief of Cool Tools. Read my newsletter, themagnet.substack.com

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