When Care Becomes a Casino
Innovation in finance meets the erosion of the US health care system
Anticipating the Aftermath.
Independent writing from Scott Smith about culture, technology, politics & the future.
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Apr 14
Coming Attractions
What Civil War gets right about American fracture
4 min read
Jan 21
How Did We Get Here?
The retreat to intimate media in a broken information age
3 min read
May 01
Archive: Playing the Future
Board games, forecasting, and alternate histories
21 min read
May 12
Archive: Silicon Valley Gets Its Own Folk Horror
How Devs turns tech mythology into cosmic dread
12 min read
Mar 12
Archive: Sailing the Seas of Superdensity
Thoughts on making a collaborative map of uncertainty
6 min read
Dec 23
Archive: Universe Coherence
Ensuring Futures Fit Together
2 min read
Dec 05
Archive: Speculative Humanitarian Futures
Imagining responses to a turbulent world
9 min read
Mar 23
Archive: Lossy Futures
Choosing your resolution level when communicating futures.
3 min read
Nov 21
Archive: Your Temporary Instant Disposable Dreamhouse for the Weekend
When everything is a test.
8 min read
Mar 23
Archive: Views of a Dark World
We are too reliant on black swans to illuminate the unseen infrastructure on which we depend.
5 min read