Weird Future

Marc Andreessen’s Crude and Nuanced Tech Cynicism

Criticism is hard

Pretty Ramp Machine

What if disability isn’t a medical condition? What if it’s a consequence of bad…

Planting For the Future

Three stories about foresight and oak trees.

Financial Planning for Immortality and/or the Apocalypse

Caught between the unimaginable and the…

The Final Days of Rob Ford

Live updates from a media death cult.

The Experience Design of Server Farms

The modern data centre is rows and rows of humming computer…

Disrupting Slumlords

Thanks to the housing crisis, Airbnb users are buying up cheap dwellings as…

A Preliminary Atlas of Robot Killing Fields

 It is difficult to describe a drone strike accurately. 

The Viridian Years

In 1998, Bruce Sterling set out to engineer a green design movement. In 2008, he shut it down. Five years later, it is time to reflect.

“Tonight, I’m going to prophesy.”