David Nuñez — a public explorer of emerging futures

A YouTuber built a screen with no lights in it.

They say if you give a monkey an infinite amount of time (and, presumably, an infinite pile of bananas), he'll eventually peck out the collected works of Shakespeare on his typewriter.

2026 · Ongoing.

I've written before about GPS and location-based apps as transforming the way we experience the real world.

Donald Unger was warned as a child by what he described as "various renowned authorities (his mother, several aunts and, later, his mother-in-law)" that cracking his knuckles would wreck his fingers.

👋 This past week I've been gearing myself up for something new (more soon).

A year ago I wrote a piece about how movie streaming services like Netflix broke our shared fire, and I ended it with advice.

I started a hundred-day making streak this week.

My niece just earned her degree in cybersecurity, so of course, I had to give her an encrypted hard drive filled w/ 1337 h4x0r media and some incoherent ramblings for her to decipher.

I'm spending the week at FAB26, the Fab Lab network's annual gathering, camped out at MIT with several hundred people who own more laser cutters than shoes.

Tom Cruise promised you real jets, not CGI.

Somewhere right now, a product team is celebrating because they removed a click between you and the thing you are supposed to buy.

A rock band with over a million Spotify listeners has no humans in it.

I really like doing the dishes.

A quick one this week as I'm heads-down on a few things I'm genuinely excited about.

I can drive across town with total ignorant hubris.

I recently saw The Devil Wears Prada 2.

A Meteor Fell from the Sky and I Couldn't Find the Crowd (Last week's Broadcast was about a titanium card that survives because the network can't carry the gesture of producing it.