Sep 09
Frontlogging the Frontier
The challenges of keeping your eyes on your own paper.
2 min read
Scott Smith
Futurist, writer, explicador.
Aug 28
Take Home Test
What's the point when the stress ain't stressin'?
3 min read
Aug 19
The Single Arc
Why one-ending futures are everywhere right now
5 min read
Jul 23
Afternotes 03: Big Model Smell
Can you develop a nose for AI models?
1 min read
Jul 17
New Wiring
What's changed around here lately.
2 min read
Jul 14
Pushing the Envelope
Apple's Star City probes a darker side of the space race
4 min read
Jul 13
New Hills to Die On
Early thoughts on the politics of protocol communities. Part 1.
4 min read
Jul 08
Controlling the Clock
Almost 70 years later, The Trouble with Lichen is right on time.
4 min read
Jun 28
Afternotes 02: Hands on the Wheel
Is AI making us lazy, and is it making at all?
Jun 19
Artifacts of Abandonment
Processing BACKROOMS as boundary object.
3 min read
Jun 14
Temporarily Embarrassed Trillionaires
When the world is all ceiling, no floor
4 min read
Jun 12
The Formula Won
A speculative artifact about data and football, read back thirteen years later.
6 min read