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? This week, we dig into these questions, with links to some truly excellent reads. But we also know the world is a LOT right now, so we mad sure to include a bunch of fun stuff too, like wacky corporate inventions, NFT rockets, and an amazing conversation between GPT-3 bots.