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Chickens as data sources, underground warehouses, and bizarre products you don't need but really want anyway.
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Jul 12CommentShare
This week, we take a look at the physical world to see how our furniture reflects social change, how our workspace contains implicit choices, and how t…
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Jun 28CommentShare
This week’s issue is all about how reality is represented in computational systems: how our identities are reflected or distorted, how data is collecte…
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Jun 14CommentShare
A few months ago, we wrote about being in a “plastic hour”, and that the pandemic might be a portal to new possibilities. We see opportunities to remak…
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May 17CommentShare
This week’s signals focus on emotions — how they can be used for foresight, how they might be manipulated for profit, and how they might be misinterpre…
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May 3CommentShare
This week’s signals speak to the importance of questioning the premise — ways that we can alter the underlying web to make it better, how to see what c…
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Apr 19CommentShare
How do we make the spaces we want to live in, both online and off? Do we innovate within the context of public works, or private markets? Once we build…
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Apr 5CommentShare
innovation often isn’t about a shiny new object, but about the nuances of how that object works in relationship to everything around it. 
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This week’s signals explore product evolution, virtual collaborations, the beauty of abundance in digital art, and the most hilarious AI exploit ever.
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New uses for blockchain, new challenges for Clubhouse, and new exploits to obscure vital information on social platforms. Read on to the end to learn s…
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Feb 22CommentShare
Orthogonal, intersectional, and communal futures
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Feb 8CommentShare
This week we look deeply at the idea of “scale”, or the size and reach of an idea or service. Being big has its benefits and drawbacks, and while being…
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Jan 25CommentShare
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