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This issue of Six Signals comes to you just two days before the autumnal equinox, so if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, your days have been and wi…

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Sep 20

Is the present moment one of catastrophe or renewal? How do you imagine non-obvious futures? How might we think about privacy and trust in nuanced ways…

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Sep 6

This week, we investigate how personal and collective identities are evolving: from the role of shared infrastructure in our lives to changes in how an…

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Aug 23

This week’s issue runs the gamut, from deep thinking on climate change to NFT strippers and everything in between. On the one hand, we’ve got people do…

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Aug 9

Our ability to create synthetic media is only getting more uncanny, with simulated voices and images that are increasingly indistinguishable from the r…

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Jul 30

Chickens as data sources, underground warehouses, and bizarre products you don't need but really want anyway.

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Jul 12

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 28

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 14

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 17

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 3

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 19

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 5

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