We’re taking this week off from the newsletter to relax and enjoy some nature over the holiday weekend. See you in a couple of weeks!

Future #50 1: Reimagining computing metaphors 2: Who regulates your privacy? 3: Who owns your simulation rights? 4: Targeting abuse requires humans + machines 5: Using synthetic data to understand reality 6: Let the robots do the thinking ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-50-co…

Future #51: This file cabinet contains multitudes 1: Zoom room or board room? 2: Filing cabinets in the age of the skyscraper 3: Copyright bots are dumb 4: The slippery slope of ownership 5: Twitter’s ethical AI dream team 6: Below the water line ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-51-th…

1: Blockchain chicken farm 2: Data centers as climate bunkers 3: Warehousing our desires 4: Surrealist impulse buying 5: The future is relentless self-promotion 6: Link rot and the erosion of history ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-52-ev…

1: “Do not simulate” and post-mortem identity 2: The call is coming from inside the neural net 3: Reporting on hyperobjects 4: Temporal zoning in urban design 5: Protest without internet 6: Gallium melts in your hand, powers your phone ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-53-sy…

ICYMI, I wrote about infrastructural systems, but also how our bodies are connected, how borders are like feudalism, that we are collective cyborgs, and that the real promise of renewable energy is not just that it’s carbon-free, it’s that it’s widely distributed.

#54: Where we don't talk about the metaverse -A technology needs the right ecosystem to thrive -Diagnostic AI doesn’t work. Yet. -Solving hard problems in public -Automating politeness -Getting real about climate futures -Making NFTs ickier with strippers ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-54-wh…

-The people behind the data -Making systems for making -“Central to any new technology is the concept of justice” -Cultivated meat is real, and could change the world -How do you say “yippee-ki-yay” in Russian? -Putting words to grief, with the help of AI ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-55-yo…

1: What do we mean when we talk about privacy? 2: Imagining truly new things 3: It is the best of times, it is the worst of times 4: Bendy SkyMall 5: You kind of have to be a rocket scientist 6: Trust is not a user problem ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-56-tr…

Future #58 1-How to future, better 2-What does it mean to read on the internet? 3-When skeuomorphs die 4-What we talk about when we talk about decentralization 5-Smaller, slower, deeper 6-When are fears about technology valid? ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/disentanglin…

Future 59: Metaverse, multiverse, or more of the same? 1: #realtalk about Web3 2: Buying & selling the concept of buying & selling 3: A framework for safer systems 4: Braaaaains 5: Facebook is ending facial recognition…sort of 6: Deplatforming a platform ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/metaverse-mu…

Future #60: Things that don't suck 1: Reimagining NYC streets 2: Web3 possibilities and potholes 3: Will crypto doom Texas or save it? 4: (Re)opening Twitter 5: Apple will let you fix your own iPhone 6: Germany signals EU leanings on privacy ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/things-that-…

1: “You can’t optimize for rest” 2: How to tell the iPhones of the future from the Segways 3: Designing for community participation 4: Do you hear what I hear? 5: Does it play Frogger? 6: The power of small design decisions ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-61-te…

Future #61: Invention & Reinvention 1: The (de)center will not hold 2: A room of one’s own 3: Everything new is new again 4: Frameworks beyond the feed 5: Old gadgets become avant garde 6: NOPE of the week: Don’t gamify the judicial system ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-61-in…

Feels like we’re stuck right now between recognizing both that cynicism won’t build a better world and that a great deal of cynicism is perfectly warranted.

1: Web3 as the logical endpoint of capitalism 2: Robots and the rituals of care 3: Delegation as an act of trust 4: Religion, technology, and innovation 5: Lighting a path to the future 6: The uncanniness of the everyday ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-63-ou…

1: Algorithms for harmony 2: Aging gracefully, crashing spectacularly 3: On the Internet, no one knows you’re an ape 4: No really, how deep is your love? 5: I contain multitudes 6: Chatbots that aren’t a**holes ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/bridges-and-…

1: Am I winning? Does it matter? 2: Using comedy to plan for an absurd future 3: Solving the wrong problems 4: Volts for vehicles and venti lattés 5: Platform wars (not that kind) 6: Flirting with AI ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-65-wh…

Future #67: It takes two rainbows to jump from Hawaii to seventeen 1: To speak, perchance to dream 2: Leg booty, spicy eggplant, & other codewords 3: Androids draw electric sheep 4: From mimicry to meaning? 5: Devout data 6: Idiosyncratic interfaces ethicalfutureslab.substack.com/p/future-67-it…