our collective futures

At around ten o'clock on the night of 18 March 2018, on an unlit stretch of road in Tempe, Arizona, a Volvo XC90 operated by Uber's Advanced Technologies Group was driving itself at 43 miles an hour.

In the summer of 1955, John McCarthy sat down to write a funding proposal.

Nobody remembers when the semiophage appeared.

In Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel Solaris, a crew of scientists is stationed above an alien ocean that covers an entire planet.

Have you noticed, at some point in the last five years, a specific kind of professional vertigo?

2026 started off already with unprecedented events (typical characteristic of the polycrisis) but we will not be talking about these events.

Introduction, and the politics of technology David Graeber spent much of his career making visible the fact that systems that we usually treat as natural or inevitable are actually made up and they are the products of specific political choices.

If you ever find yourself in Helsinki, and walk through Ruoholahti, you will find sleek office buildings, corporate headquarters, a mundane infrastructure of what passes for urban life in the twenty-first century.

"We live in a contradiction, a brutal state of affairs, profoundly inegalitarian – where all existence is evaluated in terms of money alone – is presented to us as ideal.

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of.

In 2022, I wrote an article talking about 5 important responsibilities of leading effective design teams.

The economist Mariana Mazzucato has published a discussion paper arguing that governments must fundamentally rethink arts and culture as critical infrastructure for economic transformation instead of viewing them as a peripheral luxury to be sacrificed du…

Dear reader, today I am writing to let you know that I have switched the publication you know as our collective futures from Substack to Ghost.

What is our legacy towards new designers?

In 2023, I found myself in a melancholic situation.

Big Tech has done it again.