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week 2 / 2026: ... and the circus leaves town

week 2 / 2026: ... and the circus leaves town

Reading round-up: Rodney Brooks reassesses his own AI predictions; Dan Wang holds forth on China (and everything else); Bruce Sterling reports from the depths of the multitool rabbit-hole; an anthology of stories in homage to J G Ballard.

week 46 / 2025: eyes on the street

week 46 / 2025: eyes on the street

So, you’re writing a short story that’s meant to explore a future. What’s the first and most crucial step in the process of getting your imagined world onto the page? It’s not what you might think...

week 41 / 2025: stuck in the middle with you

week 41 / 2025: stuck in the middle with you

In which I channel my inner Inigo Montoya in an attempt to explain why talking about "technology" robs us of the sense of our own agency...

week 39 / 2025: staying with various troubles

week 39 / 2025: staying with various troubles

Utopias and dystopias are equally open to interpretation, as are all narratives of futurity. That's why, for me, the name of the game is to portray the messiness of hopes and fears alongside each other...