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Entering the Post-Growth Era, the Rise of Dopamine Culture, and Roundup #31
As we delve into the age of AI gadgets and moon time, we prepare for swear word symphonies, solar-powered eyeballs, and ketchup's usurper.
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Brent Turner
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Social Fitness Crisis, Taste Gaps, and Roundup #30
While we eat beef-infused rice and edible robots with shape-shifting plastic, professional bridesmaids with new English accents attract Looksmaxxing men…
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Brent Turner
Indoor Solar Power, Four AI Wars, DIY Movements, and Roundup #29
While anthrobots, biocement, and turquoise lights make the world better, let’s take a whiff from our aroma speakers, put on our autofocus eyeglasses…
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Brent Turner
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Robot Competencies, Content Credentials, and Roundup #28
While robots revolutionize, content gets more context, AI comes for newscasters’ jobs, electrowetting and liquid trees enter bacterias' memory, and a…
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Brent Turner
AR FTW, Rocking on the Road, and Roundup #27
While AR gears up for its “aha moment," we reincarnate dead arachnids, lean on anthroposomatic supports in a subway, join a sumo club, shift into monk…
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Brent Turner
Neurorights, visuAIsed Futures, and Roundup #26
While protecting ourselves from fires, AI, and brain scans, we draw lights, hear silence, discover a virgin birth, work later, and navigate emerging…
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Brent Turner
Joyful Horror, Lensless Photography, and Roundup #25
In which we discover that holobionts, synthfluencers, paragraphica, and sweaty mankins in a dystopian-loving creatorsphere were not enough to distract…
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Brent Turner
AI vs. AGI, AI vs. Human Badges, and (AI-free) Roundup #24
Nestled between two heady AI topics, we open two tabbed drinks and stream our underwear while we wait for uninfectable organisms to be sent to orbital…
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Brent Turner
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Prompt Engineers, Design Revolutions, and Roundup #23
One day “organoid intelligence” (OI) will be bigger than AI. Until then, there are scienced-up surfaces to paint, funky foods to try, and prompts to…
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Brent Turner
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Generative Brand Identities, Future Normal, and Roundup #22
It’s time to grab some pulse-enhanced foods, pick up a new book, and go when the fourth traffic light color says so—just look out for the tractor beams…
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Brent Turner
Organs on Demand, Metaverse Cycles, and Roundup #21
With scentware on our faces, skinstacks in our hands, new organs in our bodies, and a car that changes colors, we know when we will return to the…
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Brent Turner
Super Apps, Leadership Neighborhoods, and Roundup #20
From France’s forecasts and Argentina’s tourism to Lego ducks and DNA advances, the intrigue and irreverence continue—and tricky questions emerge.
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Brent Turner
The New New
The New New
Fueling foresight with the discoveries, launches, trends, and movements emerging from labs, studios, businesses, and culture. Published monthly(ish).
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